UN General Assembly
2009

is government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is not government of the bourgeoisie or of the elite when the people rise up and the thugs are pushed out. That happened in Honduras, and in Venezuela in 2002. It happened in Brazil with João Goulart, and in the Dominican Republic. Why were the peoples of Latin America and of the Caribbean not allowed to build their own future in the twentieth century? They did not let them. This century is ours. This century, in Latin America and in the Caribbean we will build our own way and no one can stop it. No one can stop it. Imperialism must end. At times, one wonders. I was once asking Lula what America, our Latin America, would be today if the Governments of the United States had not dug their claws into our America to impose a model by violently cutting off the hope and the struggle of millions of people, extinguishing the dawn. I was born in 1954. Fidel was already in prison,