Mari Pili Hernandez Quotes
There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.
This is an old and critical concept in American relations with the rest of the hemisphere which Simon Bolivar used to refer to as “respecto.” Americans tend to be relatively unconcerned by what other nations think of America, and since the US has been so successful, it has developed a strong national ego. Other nations, not so successful in modern times, tend to place a great deal of importance on the notion of respect. It is a major factor in most of the world.
Mari Pili Hernandez, Venezuelan Vice Minister to the United States, Quoted in New York Times, April 26, 2005
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See {613385} ,{588836}, {613381}, {613384}.
See {613385} ,{588836}, {613384}, {613381}.
This he felt was such an important concept that dignity was as important as weapons and strategy in revolutionary movements. See {613381}, {588836} and {613384}.