Conditions are ripe for triumph, … We will win. And we will wield great power here.

Today the winds of hope blow through Latin America and the Caribbean.

We grew up in a situation where we didn’t know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn’t know what democracy was.

We had explored the possibility of the French sending us Mirage, and the French were willing; and when this became known, the Americans reacted by announcing publicly that they would not allow those armaments to...

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn’t manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we...

[An Ortega victory in November would leave Latin America with a third U.S. antagonist in the region, along with Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. It would] raise the morale of Latin America, …...

To be selected as one of the top 25 players in your age group in the nation says a lot.

It wasn’t a completely free election because there was open interference from the United States, from President Bush, in the form of financial and political support to our opponents, as well as threats that the...

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?

My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves — that’s what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and...

We are going to wait for the moment of the debate, and we’ll make the decision,

During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship with the United States.

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.

El desarrollo esdesarrollo, sólo si es humano

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with...

This subject brings pain and sadness, and also indignation at the manipulation,

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police —...

There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism, the Soviet Union would support those struggles and those causes, in the...

The fact is that the United States is behind what has happened in Nicaragua, and what they did was to promote a confrontation between Nicaraguans.