Dancing with Evo Morales - Bolivia

May 2006
He jokes that he's America's worst nightmare and plans to nationalise Bolivia's oil industry and overturn the old social order. As yet another South American country 'goes left', we profile Bolivia's new President.

As a former union leader, Evo Morales is more accustomed to attacking governments than leading them. But Bolivia's first ever indigenous President has ambitious plans for his country. "Sooner or later there must be a profound transformation", he vows. "I want a new economic model." Morales' first objective is to seize back control of the country's national assets, including its enormous natural gas reserves. "Oligarchies won't just give up. They want to continue sucking the Bolivian people's blood." A series of forced privatisations imposed by the World Bank and IMF left Bolivia the poorest country in Latin America. Now, Morales has pledged to renegotiate existing oil contracts. Actions like this -- and his close friendship with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro -- have sent shivers down Washington's spine. But any heavy-handed action from the White House could backfire. As analyst Jim Shultz explains: "America's fear is that it will push Bolivia into the arms of Hugo Chavez."

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[DelaLocos]

Fucking Evo. He is so loved by averyone. He was here last year in Copenhagen and He was treat as a rock Star. We love You EVO!

[albarito1964]

EVO ES UN ENVIADO ,NO SE DE DONDE PERO SU LUCHA CAMBIARA NO SOLO BOLIVIA ,TAMBIEN INFLUENCIARA MUCHO PARA UN CAMBIO MUNDIAL TOTAL

[HelmetVanga]

@wencesbahena The politicians and power people in the US make fatal mistakes when it comes to Latin America. WHen the US confronts or does not get its way, small countries turn to Rusia or China or Germany or any european nation to buy military hardware, planes, helicopters, etc.

[11447777]

JAJAJA QUE PENDEJADA, RECORD MUJNDIAL Y SE TOCAN EL CONDOR PASA PERUANO. JAJA, Y QUE ES ESO DE TROMPETA DE OREO? ACASO TOCA LA TROMPETA COMO SUSY DIAZ?

[sclocc]

@SharpThinker2008 It's better to be a puppet of Chavez than the United States, a terrorist government that only cares about power and wealth. The rich get richer and the poor stay poor. If democracy really worked there wouln't be homeless people all over the U.S.

[aldomovielovers]

This guy is smart .....

[contrlaes]

@lenticio Bolivianito acomplejado,yo opino con propiedad,si esta claro que vos te cagas en tu pais,tu gente,esta claro que solo escribis cagadas ..scribis tantas cagadas que demuestras ser cagada de individuo,en algun video lei que sos camba,sin saber que ser camba es ser indigena pobre y esclavo de la amazonia o la zona baja de Bolivia,por lo tanto das opiniones,calificativos despectivas a tus hermanos del occidente o zonas altas o collas,como un negro puede discriminar de negro a otro negro?

[contrlaes]

@lenticio Veo que sos un individuo muy pobre en educacion,cultura o muy ignorante o demaciado hipocrita y cinico,tus mensajes,respuestas es una mezcla de todo y esto hace que me meta

Una vision constructiva sin banderas politicas es que Bolivia requiere cambios profundos y para ello nesecitan mas de 30 años sin oposicion destructiva

Hoy se nota claramente que Bolivia fue gobernado en beneficio para unos pocos,quienes perdieron ese poder hoy buscan cualquier argumento para recuperar el poder

[LucyVico]

@lenticio callate basura que dejo los americanos la tierra es de los indigenas aunque no lo son la mayoria fueron matados .

[contrlaes]

@lenticio Che boliviano veo algunos videos de la situacion politica y social de tu pais sin ninguna duda el mas pobre del Continente despues de Haiti,vos tenes idea,conocimiento por que?

Me llama la atencion de quien no es detractor de Evo es indio,en este caso con seguridad incluido mi persona,pero para mi es lo que menos me intereza,la realidad no se puede tapar con descalificaciones miserables ni insultos baratos, paso demaciado tiempo para que hoy tengan presidente indigena,saludos

[andareslu]

VIVA EVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!