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“We can rightly say that it was the cradle of South African liberation; but one day it will also be considered the cradle of African dignity. And it’s not that Africa has not fought, or that Africa has not carried out thousands and tens of thousands of heroic deeds but this was the most painful stronghold of a system of slavery and injustice that has existed for thousands of years, and particularly in the of Africa, Latin America and the Third World, it prevailed hundreds of years.”
References to the original: Visit to the Hector Peterson Memorial in commemoration of the massacre in Soweto, a township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 5 September 1998

"(...) I see a new hour in Venezuela, an immovable and inseparable pillar of the history of our America. One has the right to trust one's own experience or viewpoint. Not because one is infallible or because one has not made mistakes but because one has had the opportunity to take a 40 yearlong course in the academy of the Revolution".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999

"Fate would have it that Venezuela should be the country to fight the most for the independence of this hemisphere. It began here and you had a legendary precursor like Miranda, who even lead a French army in campaign waging famous battles which, at a point in time, during the French Revolution, prevented an invasion of French territory".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999

"(...) we must unite, not only here in the Caribbean and Central America but also with South America. They need it as much as we (...)"

References to the original: ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE FIRST WORKING SESSION OF THE ACS SUMMIT, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 17 APRIL 1999

“As Latin Americans, we should try to cooperate with Colombia, with the country itself, to help it achieve a fair peace, one that would benefit everybody”.

References to the original: Speech given in the closing ceremony of the first International Congress on Culture and Development. International Convention Center, June 11, 1999

"In Latin America, where neoliberalism has been applied with absolute attachment to doctrine, economic growth in the neoliberal stage has not been higher than that attained under the previous state development policies".

References to the original: ADDRESS AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE GROUP OF 77 SOUTH SUMMIT CONFERENCE, April 12, 2000

“Latin American and Caribbean integration is fundamental. It is only by joining together that we can negotiate our role in this hemisphere and the same applies to the Third World countries vis à vis the powerful and insatiable club of the wealthy.”

References to the original: CUBA WILL NEITHER NEGOTIATE NOR SELL OUT ITS REVOLUTION WHICH HAS COST THE BLOOD AND SACRIFICE OF MANY OF ITS SONS AND DAUGHTERS, June 22, 2000