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"This has been perhaps the first revolution in history in which not a single prisoner of war has been murdered; in which no wounded have been abandoned, in which no-one has been tortured; because that was the standing order established by the rebel Army".

References to the original: Speech on his arrival in Havana on 8 January 1959
“[…] our firmest column, our best troop; the only troop that is capable of winning the war all by itself: That troop is the people! No General can have more power than the people; no army can be stronger that the people […]”
References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel after his arrival at ‘Ciudad Libertad’ in Havana, January 8, 1959

"Fate would have it that Venezuela should be the country to fight the most for the independence of this hemisphere. It began here and you had a legendary precursor like Miranda, who even lead a French army in campaign waging famous battles which, at a point in time, during the French Revolution, prevented an invasion of French territory".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999

“A country like Cuba is well aware that after the United States has established one of its military bases it only leaves if it wants to or it forcibly stays as it has done in Guantanamo, for over one hundred years”.

References to the original: The best tribute to a hero’s mother, November 3, 2009

"Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world".

References to the original: Reflections THE TWO VENEZUELAS, October 18, 2011