"While thousands of people gathered around Miraflores Presidential Palace to greet the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro, opposition sectors, the United States, the European Union and the Latin American right launched a predictable destabilization plan against the most recent democratic electoral process undertaken on Sunday, May 20, in Venezuela.The Venezuelan people, victims of one of the most brutal economic wars of recent times, only comparable to the blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 50 years, re-elected Nicolás Maduro as their legitimate President with more than six million votes."

"I am with Maduro, I will continue with him and I will die with him."

"Since Chavez’s death in 2013, his successor Nicolas Maduro has shed his derisory label in the Western press as a “former bus driver” and become Saddam Hussein incarnate... As the journalist and film-maker Pablo Navarrete reported this week, Venezuela is not the catastrophe it has been painted. “There is food everywhere,” he wrote. “I have filmed lots of videos of food in markets [all over Caracas] … it’s Friday night and the restaurants are full.”"

"If I were homosexual I would proclaim it proudly to the world."

"At the 5th of march he (Chávez) reached the 4th life, the eternal life, from there (Heaven) he watches us, from there he brings us his ardor, from there he brings us his songs, like Jorge said. Something else also happened this morning, I'll tell you about it. The time has come to tell you about something else. I entered a little chapel around 8 in the morning, 8:30. Small chapel. (Made out) of wood. (I was) alone and I was praying and remembering him (Chávez). There was a large photo of him, a statuette of José Gregorio Hernández and a Christ. Suddenly a little bird flew in and flew three times (in circles) up here. He landed on a wooden beam over here, and began to sing. A song there, (it was) pretty. I looked at him and I sang to him too. I said, “if you sing at me, I'll sing at you.” And so I sang. The little bird looked at me funny, sang a little, flew a lap around me, and left. And I felt his (Chávez) spirit. I felt him as though he was giving us a blessing, telling us “Today the battle begins. Go forth to victory, you have our blessings.”Thats what I felt in my soul and thats how I felt it, the same way you felt it, Jorge."

"He (Simón Bolívar) was orphaned of a father at the age of 3, orphaned of a mother at 9, and at just 17 or 18 he was orphaned of a wife. If you could call it that. Orphan of a wife. It's called widowed, but in truth he was orphaned, (he) became alone, alone."

"You know who "Gremlins" are? Some little monsters who hate christmas."

"Im going to remove this helmet; It's fucking up what little brain I have left."

"It's too much of a coincidence that someone gets killed and is dead the next day."

"I hope history will absolve my first 24 months in office."

"Stalin looked just like me; the mustache is exactly the same. Comrade Stalin, who defeated Hitler."

"I'm using my intelligence to play dumb and thus make world news."

"The Russia Today television channel is more powerful than a thousand nuclear missiles."

"It's delinquency (delinquency: morosidad), not morasity (mora: blackberry + -idad: -ity, suffix used to form an adjective); that has to do with blackberries; the production of blackberry jam."

"When I met Commander Chávez, I didn't hesitate for a millimeter of a second to be by his side."

"Sometimes I realize it's me when I look in the mirror."

"I am in fact ready, ministers, comrades, I am ready to to hand over to the communal power the plants that any bigwig in this country has shut down. Plant halted, plant handed to the people, but let's do it, fuck it, the time has come to do it, I am ready to do it and radicalize the revolution, the time has come without hesitation, to hesitate is to lose, comrades."

"Don't let yourself be masturbated, don't let your ego be masturbated. More disturbed (masturbar: masturbate, más: more + turbar: disturb), that is, disturbed greatly."

"The Maduro diet gets you hard without Viagra."

"The butterflies visit me, it might be that they recognize me as a faggot (mariposón: literal translation: 'big butterfly', homophobic insult for feminine men)."

"I don't obey imperial orders. I'm against the Ku Klux Klan that governs the White House, and I'm proud to feel that way."