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Former President of Venezuela

Hugo Chavez, born on July 28, 1954, and died on March 5, 2013, was a former President of Venezuela. After graduating from the Military Academy, Chavez participated in a coup but was captured and imprisoned. After his release, he entered politics and was elected president in 1998. During his tenure, he implemented a series of social and economic policies aimed at reducing the wealth gap. Chavez passed away in 2013.

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Famous Hugo Chavez Quotes

“The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.”

World Should Forget Oil Keep Going Barrels

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.”

World Wells Hands Christ Water Numbers Taken Land Gold Riches Minorities Silver Ownership Descendants Minerals Small Numbers Petrol

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“For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.”

World Should Said States Remember United United States Example Catholic Iraq Remembered Illegal Pope Immoral John Paul John Paul Ii

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“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.”

“Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.”

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“I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.”

World Wish Disappear Imf World Bank

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“For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.”

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“I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.”

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“We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.”

World Environment Environmental Destroyed Elites Privileged

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“Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.”

World Needs Should Firsts Believe Government Today I Believe Moral Ethics Convinced Architecture Debate Our World Topics

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“The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.”

World Way Democracy Socialism Dictatorship Save The World

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“It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.”

World Said Lying Congress Anti Semitic

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“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

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“We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.”

World Want Said Order Universe Father Brother Development Balanced Brothers And Sisters Our Father

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.”

Ifs World Stills States Home Today House President United Talking United States Devil Smell Yesterday Gentleman Owners Ladies And Gentlemen

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“The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.”

World Threat Imperialism Destroyers

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“To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”

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“Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”

World Said Empires

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“I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.”

World Way Want Christian Justice Achieve Equality And Justice

Author:Hugo Chavez

About the Author

Born: July 28, 1954
Died: March 5, 2013
Known for: Former President of Venezuela
Quotes: 95

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