UN General Assembly
2013

an economic blockade. It is the best tool of genocide. Therefore, if we are truly responsible for the well-being of humankind, if we are responsible for truth, justice and peace, then we must organize to fight back so that no president — from South America, the Middle East or anywhere else in the world — will ever again cause harm to life or to humankind. Like previous debates here — on the financial, climate, economic and food crises — the Assembly is now addressing the issue of interventionism. As long as imperialism and capitalism exist, peace, justice, liberty, dignity and sovereignty for the people of the world will never be possible. I am convinced of that, because I have a little experience. We should therefore contemplate a world free of oligarchies, monarchies and hierarchies, and then consider the sort of human order we would want for the world. All of us possess sovereignty and dignity, whether we are small and backwards — “developing”, as they call us — or whatever our situation. What damages the