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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

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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.

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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

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

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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

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Biography

Nationality: Portuguese

Type: Writer

Born: November 16th, 1922

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