[Asked about his vice president's statements, Chavez said,] we haven't heard anything. ... only God can punish crimes of such magnitude. |
[He charged that other INS documents make reference to efforts to] Show Fidel, ... we gave child back. |
[Meanwhile, the memory of U.S. presidential complicity in assassination plots is very nearly dead. There have been no references, post the Robertson initiative, to the old] Special Group ... on the desirability of not spreading knowledge of covert operations any wider than absolutely necessary, if we are to preserve the principal of deniability. |
[People] have asked me how I can support Fidel if he's a dictator, ... But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship ? it's a revolutionary democracy. |
a bunch of kidnappers. |
a model country that protects the lives of its citizens. |
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. |
also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country. |
And now, suddenly you discover that almost everything is behind you, and that life has its limits, |
Apart from the moral and political damage that this does, what hurts us the most is the idea that one single American citizen could think that from Cuban territory any harm would be waged against them, |
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger |
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. |
Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me. |
Could it be that the government of the United States feels hurt that Cuba cooperates with a brother nation? Does that offend the U.S. government ... is it antidemocratic, is it a crime? |
Cuba has not solicited international aid, |