Che Guevara Quotes

I Think Harmonious Relations With The U.s. Would Be Very Good For Us From The Economical Point Of View, More Than In Any Other Field, Because All Our Industry Has Been Established By The U.s. And Primary Products And Repair Parts That We Have To Make With Much Difficulty Or To Bring From Other Areas Could Come Directly. And Besides, Sugar, Which Traditionally We Had The American Market Is Also Near.

With A Military American Base In Our Territory, Where There Could Be Any Sort Of Weapons, Where We Have To Endure Every Kind Of Provocations, We Have To Support And Endure The Flights Over Our Territory.

What We Consider Is That The Venezuelan Government Is Not A Leftist Government, Has Nothing Of A Leftist Government. It Is An Oppressor, An Oppressive Government, It Is A Murderer - He Murders Them - The Peasant Fights In The Region Of Falcon, For Example, Where There Are Military Advisers Of The U.s.

We Have Taken Plants From The Capitalist System Where The Most Important Thing Was To Produce, Especially In Cuba.

I Do Not Imply That In The U.s Plants, Industrial Plants, Are Places Of Exploitation Where Man Is Oppressed. 1 Know That There Are A Great Number Of Advantages Here For Too American Worker.

This Is The Cuzco Asking You To Pull On Your Armor And, Mounted On The Ample Back Of A Powerful Horse, Cleave A Path Through The Defenseless Flesh Of A Naked Indian Flock Whose Human Wall Collapses And Disappears Beneath The Four Hooves Of The Galloping Beast.

I Am Not The Representative Of Guerrilla In This Hemisphere. I Would Say That The Representative Would Be Fidel Castro Which Was The Leader Of Our Revolution And Who Had The Most Outstanding Role In The Direction Of The Revolutionary Struggle And Directs The Strategy Of The Cuban Government.

Why Does The Guerrilla Fighter Fight? We Must Come To The Inevitable Conclusion That The Guerrilla Fighter Is A Social Reformer, That He Takes Up Arms Responding To The Angry Protest Of The People Against Their Oppressors, And That He Fights In Order To Change The Social System That Keeps All His Unarmed Brothers In Ignominy And Misery.

Its Tall Chimneys Throw Up Black Smoke, Impregnating Everything With Soot, And The Miners' Faces As They Traveled The Streets Were Also Imbued With That Ancient Melancholy Of Smoke, Unifying Everything With Its Grayish Monotones, A Perfect Coupling With The Gray Mountain Days.

Arms Cannot Be Regarded As Merchandise In Our World. They Should Be Delivered To The Peoples Asking For Them For Use Against The Common Enemy Without Any Charge At All, And In Quantities Determined By The Need And Their Availability.

We Know The Power Of The U.s.. We Do Not Fool Ourselves About This Power. We Say That The U.s. Government Wants Us To Pay A Very High Price For This Unstable Peace We Enjoy Today. And The Price We Are In A Position To Pay Is Only - Comes Only To The Frontiers Of Dignity, Not Beyond.

We Put No Condition Of Any Kind To The U.s., We Don't Want It To Change Its System, We Don't Want Racial Discrimination To Cease In The U.s., We Put No Conditions To The Establishment Of Relations.