08/18/2013
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"This is a manmade crisis. This is not a natural disaster."
"It is incumbent upon the Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago... to get--to be into Venezuela to discuss the various problems that exist."
"Our goal in Cuba, ultimately, is the restoration of a democracy."
"Nicaragua is a place that is not necessarily a model of democracy, but... the people of Nicaragua have begun to express how strongly they feel about the erosion of democracy there."