Latin America Quotes

• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.

  Pablo Neruda

  Latin, Years, America

  Pablo Neruda (1977). “Memoirs”

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, Japan

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• There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Latin, Differences, America

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, No Money

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• Long live the Unity of Latin America.

  Hugo Chavez

  Latin, America, Long

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• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, War, America

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• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Witty, Regret

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, Latin, America

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Venezuela is independent. It's diversifying its exports to a limited extent, instead of just being dependent on exports to the United States. And it's initiating moves toward Latin American integration and independence. It's what they call a Bolivarian alternative and the United States doesn't like any of that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Moving, Independent

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Moving, Years

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• Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Moving, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

  Evo Morales

  War, Latin, America

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

  David Wilkerson

  Children, Latin, Men

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• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Latin, Men, America

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• The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, America, Europe

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• In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

  Sofia Vergara

  Latin, Believe, America

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• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Latin, Reality, Break Through

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Latin, Europe

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

  Bianca Jagger

  Latin, America, Rights

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• The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

  William Hague

  Latin, America, Economy

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• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, Speak English, America

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• In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

  Luis Suarez

  Soccer, Latin, Team

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