Dancing with Evo Morales - Bolivia


May 2006He 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' firstobjective 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 poorestcountry 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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LiaMarcella (November 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm)
ESTA manejado por el LOCO GORILA DEL CHAVEZ... este depravado chavez se mete en lo que no le importa... si solo DEJARA DE JODER AL EVO... SERIA OTRA COSA... lean el libro EL CIUDADANO X... ahi sabran la verdad y podran opinar.. EL LIBRO LO SACO DE CIRCULACION POR MIEDO... LEANLO
chbiggs (November 25, 2008 at 9:51 pm)
I visited Boliva in the eighties and love the people there,as a black man i felt at home there.i love this expose on this country, and would like to see the relations with Boliva and its neighbours blosom, it would be intresting to see how the new presedent elect Boraka deals with South America.The Americans i see around these countries i'll like the Bolivian people to know that those people they see don't reflect the American people just an agenda of the wicked.
1jugador (November 25, 2008 at 3:32 am)
alguien tiene q enseñarle al huEVOn Morales a hablar
inka7yupanqui (November 22, 2008 at 1:13 am)
No se metan al Peru bolivianos con sus protestas contra el APEC.Porque el Peru saldra adelante y ustedes con sus politicas comunistas se quedan en mundo primitivo.

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