Colombia Quotes - Page 3

• Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

  Doris Salcedo

  Art, Political, Everyday

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• By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

  Richard Stallman

  Unions, Way, Coca Cola

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• Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

  Michael Parenti

  School, Marine, Order

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• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  Camilo Villegas

  Missing

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.

  Ruben Gallego

  Country, Opportunity, Parent

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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• Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Stories, Damage

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dying, North Carolina, Doe

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Racist, Arrogant, Bases

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall be freely available to the rich and powerful of the world, particularly US-based multinational corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Mean, World

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Opportunity, Government

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

  Shakira

  Dream, Childhood, Singers

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Country, Honest, Shows

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Night, Turkeys, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn't be a consensus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Hemisphere, Canada

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mother, Attitude, Father

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.

  Shakira

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Years, Drug

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, People, Massacres

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• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Latin, America

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Class, People, Growing

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• For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Years, Drug, Criminals

  "Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Realizing, Economic, Circumstances

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• Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Effort, Drug, Trafficking

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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