Around the world Quote by Mario Benedetti

There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution…

— Martin Amis

I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the rest of…

— Martin Amis

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

— Cindy Sheehan

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never…

— Isabel Allende

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the…

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

— Richard Branson

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically,…

— Daniel Ortega

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

— Tabare Vazquez

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in…

— Mahathir Mohamad