What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.
I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
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