November
26, 2004
Nobel Prize winner Saramago defends Venezuelan
sovereignty
(El Nacional) - "The Portuguese
writer had a red flower in his hand. After
more than an hour in a televised interview,
José Saramago left the state owned
TV channel, Venezolana de Televisión,
where he talked about the importance of
the current government.
'Venezuela is going through
a historical change. What happens here
is so important that it will have a
place in history, not only in Venezuela
but in Latin America as well, and why
not, in world history', the intellectual
said. The Nobel Prize is visiting Caracas
and begged 'for foreign interference
to stop'.
'What Venezuela
needs is to overcome the tremendous
amount of social injustice of which
the population has been the main victim
(…) Finally, eyes are turning to
an important part of the Venezuelan
population that had been undermined
for centuries of indifference from the
powerful political and economical classes'
(…)."
