Hugo Chavez Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

  Hugo Chavez

  Justice, Doubt, Everyday

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

• Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Impossible, Injustice

• But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Cuba, Revolutionary

  "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

• The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, World, Way

  "Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media" by Stephen Sackur, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

• I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jobs, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.progressive.org

• We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Perfect, Democracy, Not Perfect

  Interview with Mark Weisbrot, venezuelanalysis.com. May 2002.

• Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Running, Book, Reality

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