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… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share
