Among the other miscellaneous themes addressed by Chavez that I jotted down on my notepad:
- Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation
- Afro Venezuelans
- Noted political writer Noam Chomsky, whose latest book talks about how U.S. dominance could give rise to the extinction of the human race
- Noted American author Mark Twain, who espoused anti imperialist politics
- astronomy and the planet Mars, advances in NASA technology and his own ponderings of the universe and Big Bang theory
- Chavez's own global travels throughout Africa, Portugal, Spain, and South America
- Peter Cooper and the importance of Cooper Union as an educational institution (this fed into a wider discussion of educational advances in Venezuela and Simon Rodriguez, Simon Bolivar's tutor)
- structural reform of the United Nations
- U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was killed by the American right wing
- Martin Luther King, who would have been U.S. president if he had not been assassinated
He left the speech before he could hear Chavez proclaim his desire to visit Louis Farrakhan's Mother Ship in outer space and his intention to have plastic surgery to make him look like his idol Mao Tse Tung.