“Imagine what it's like to be a young person living in a country that is not moving toward reform… While your peers in other parts of the world have received educations that prepare them for the opportunities of a global economy, you have been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings.”

2000s, 2006, United Nations General Assembly speech (September 2006)

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