We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God’s mysterious designs.

Israel’s demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a ‘strategic asset,’ as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon...

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Everybody can entirely write off their exposure to Russia and this quarter earnings would suffer, but that would be the end of it and things will keep chugging along. It’s not just Russia. They are...

The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There...

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether...

There are very strong winds of change blowing through the continent of Latin America and they seem to be in somewhat of a left-ward direction.

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice…

Latin America is addicted to polls. The media publishes anything. They don?t filter [the polls]; they?re not demanding with the pollsters. In addition, there are different ways of looking at the same poll.

Already the people murmur that I am your enemybecause they say that in verse I give the world your me.They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.Who rises in my verses is not...

Anyone who pretends to “understand” Latin America is a fool.