“Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase — 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.”

—  Mitt Romney

quoting Fidel Castro's speech-ending slogan "Fatherland or death, we shall overcome"
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

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