He says the people here are poor. The middlemen would be free to continue selling to them if it was at a price they could afford.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19