Hugo Chavez Quotes
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
Chávez, Hugo. "Address to the United Nations General Assembly." 20 Sept. 2006, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The cocoa plant produces leaves which the Bolivian Indians have been chewing for centuries as mild stimulant and assuager of hunger pangs. However with Western chemistry, the cocoa leaves can be turned into cocaine. The Cocoa crop has a ready market domestically and a hugely inflated profit for exports to the illicit drug trade. The United States has put pressure on Bolivian politicians to make growing of the cocoa plant illegal, and has supplied the chemicals and the funds to destroy the cocoa crop wherever they find it growing. This angers small peasant farmers for whom this is the most profitable crop and one of the few on which they can even grow in much of the country; it also angers the vast majority of the Indian population—about half the country—as they are pressured to give up chewing cocoa. The Indians have virtually no harmful effect from chewing cocoa leaves and say that the problem is with the Gringos who are drug users and cannot control themselves. Why should they give up their preferences, traditions and customs because the North Americans are irresponsible and cannot control themselves? Chavez, the first ethnic Indian President of Bolivia took the position that the peasants and peasant farmers should not have to sacrifice to benefit the rich Americans and others in the world. America has a prevention and education problem and Americans should stop buying the cocaine—a product on which the Bolivian Indians make almost nothing; they would be happy just growing leaves for the domestic market.
Vladimir Lenin. This is a very important historical quotations. It was made by Lenin soon after the 1917 Russian Revolution and surprisingly to most he declared that the exporting of the Communist Revolution was more important than the national interest of communist Russia. Many Western nations, including the U. S. sent troops to part of Russia on various pretexts and it appeared to many that the West was ganging up against Russian Communism and interfering with their internal affairs. However, in effect, the new Russian state, with the attitude expressed by this quotation, was declaring a type of revolutionary war on all the capitalist nations who saw this fledgling mess of a country as a potential threat. They were right.
Howe had written Franklin attempting to stave off a American break with England. Franklin, with the approval of the Continental Congress, replied. This line was a veiled warning of a type of “domino effect” which indeed came to pass.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in April 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.
