Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Quote by Jose Saramago

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Americans have discovered fear.

Americans have discovered fear.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a...

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a...

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

I am not a prophet.

I am not a prophet.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of...

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of...

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,...

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,...

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.