Bolivian President Evo Morales: "Shameful" For West to Spend Trillions On War and Only $10 Billion For Climate Change

Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 16, 2
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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/16/bolivian_president_evo_morales_shamefu...

Bolivian President Evo Morales recently arrived in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Summit. In a press conference Wednesday, Morales said, The budget for the United States is $687 billion for defense and they want for climate changeto save life, to save humanitythey only put up $10 billion. This is shameful.

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[alexandearth]

great point, there are over 700 American bases in every continent except Antarctica, including up to 6000 bases in America, how much does that cost?!

[cheouno]

Evo is part of a culture of life, that has protected our Madre Tierra for a millenium. If you oppose his sincerety, and his plea to stop capitalist greed and avarice,__you then stand with the culture of terrorism and war of television, with the slave owners, with the entrepeneurs of imperialism, with those responsible for genocide that has terrorized our original polulation and raped our continent, our Madre Tierra, from the day Columbus first set foot here,

[TheChio1970]

@AUSM92 THANK YOU, AS A BOLIVIAN I FEEL SO POWERLESS AND FRUSTRATED EVERYTIME THAT I READ THE NEWS. BUT IT SEEMS THAT NOT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVES ALL THE DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS, THAT EVO MORALES ITS CAUSING TO HIS OWN PEOPLE.

[Anthortiz]

WHO'S THAT GUY TALKING?

[chuckancheese]

to think that he is part of a culture of life... what does that mean? Coca/cocaine culture is profoundly evil and wrong. this image of the noble indian is not realistic at all and is built to please european intellectuals. indigenous people in bolivia want to be prosperous just like everybody else. nobody likes to be poor. being poor sucks. if you advocate for capitalism in bolivia you are being more noble than a guy who's sort of rich by supporting drug production.

[chuckancheese]

this guy is a joke, but those who buy into his discourse are worse. He became president almost by accident if not by force, blocking the roads, defending de coca leaf that we all know gets processed into cocaine and was illegal to grow. He's very dirty, lies and is very easy for him to point the finger, but he doesn't have the solution and doesn't have anything to offer. What has he done? he repeats only cliches and is a terrible representative for peace, because he only knows how to divide.

[marianostpc]

FUCK YOU USA!!! RICHS COUNTRYS!!! AND THE PUPPET OBAMA!!!

EVO FOR PRESIDENT!!!

[1990PatMorrison]

@cheouno really, he talks about Global climate change and "Ecological debt" yet still continues to export millions of barrels of oil

[MegaContented]

truth , but they don't want to listen.

[Cochel123]

He is just not sincere, people should know the way treats his own people or his own country. He and his vice president killed and put to jail to many people that are considered not indigenous or against his government. He talks about racism and discrimination, he is doing that same thing in his own country. He is not member of culture of life at all. He is just another politician trying to get the attention of those who does not care about Bolivia and its people.

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love!