We don't want to be rich but we do want to live well, with dignity, as brothers, so there is no misery, so there is no poverty, so people are not excluded - that is among our fundamental objectives. |
We have detected intelligence infiltration that threatened national security and defense, |
We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it, |
We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years, |
We have suffered from this tragedy as though we were from Martinique, as though we were French, ... I pray that this tragedy ... on Venezuelan soil helps us reinforce our unity ... We are all Caribbean. |
We have the opportunity to break from the path of imposed domination and servitude, |
We have to have a radical change of the format of these summits, |
We in Venezuela don't have to be giving any explanation, much less under imperialist pressure. |
We know that abstention will be high. That is a characteristic of local elections, |
We must be ready for an aggression, |
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. |
We need militaries that don't allow the people to be trampled over and that don't sell themselves to the (U.S.) empire. |
We never lose hope that we'll regain a good tone with Mr. Bush's government, |
We place at the disposition of the people of the United States in the event of shortages -- we have drinking water, food, we can provide fuel, |
we should continue with this process, whose only queen is equality |