South of the Border Page #5
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in the campaign of Evo Morales. . .
a pugnacious leftist
and consistent critic of the U.S. ...
Condo competing presidency
Bolivia.
He is a man who is not friend
the Bush administration.
Evo Morales, who presided
is the first Indian to be elected
president.
Morales, who called a month ago
President Bush a''terrorist''...
is part of a new wave
leftist leaders ...
South America
The stakes here are high.
Bolivia has the second largest
natural gas reserves in South America
The flight from Caracas to La Paz
is a straight line to the south ...
across the Andes.
It was Che Guevara in Bolivia
Forty years later, in 2005 ...
Bolivia, for the first time
elected a leader of the indigenous people ...
or 70% of the population,
Evo Morales as president.
As a leader of coca growers,
Morales was arrested by the oligarchs.
Huge social movements,
in defense of coca ...
order and against privatization
IMF aroused the country.
The government decided to sell. . .
the water supply of Cochabamba
Bechtel, an American company.
And this company, one of the things
she led the government to do. . .
was to pass a law saying that
from then, would be illegal. . .
Rs caves go to the poor
and collect rainwater. . .
because it challenged
its monopoly of water.
Anxiety increases in Bolivia.
The government declared
state of emergency ...
after days of protest,
rising water prices.
Five people, at least
were killed.
Movements like this
Morales drove ...
of such movements to power.
Some have called
Revenge of''Che''.
I'm not afraid to say.
I am a big fan of Fidel
and Hugo Chavez.
Others saw it as ...
the victory of truth
against corporate tyranny.
When we landed in La Paz,
we all struggle with the altitude.
It is the international airport
highest in the world.
For generations, the indigenous
chewed coca leaves ...
to relieve
The strain on the body.
It's not the same as cocaine,
as many in the U.S. believe.
Coca leaves have got to be
chemically processed ...
to produce cocaine.
But in its native form ...
has mild stimulant effects,
such as caffeine.
A day later, we still felt
nausea from altitude ...
and President Morales
helped us.
I'm curious if the president
show me. . .
or share with me
a little. . .
These sheets are bad.
These coca leaves
're not good.
Are not they?
Really?
They will not do you good.
Will not make you well.
You're the expert.
Must be greener,
not so dark.
So. . .
Washington brought the fight
on drugs for Bolivia. . .
and President Morales expelled
DEA few months ago.
The pretext of fighting
against drug trafficking. . .
that implemented
is a control policy. . .
not only against Bolivia. . .
but many others
Latin American countries.
The war on drugs
part. . .
geopolitical interests of
U.S..
The war on drugs
part. . .
geopolitical interests of
U.S..
Right.
This is better.
It's a control.
-A control.
It consumes so.
It consumes so.
I invite you.
The two hands.
I invite you need. . .
Put on your hands.
Hold.
Hold.
Take the talinho. . .
e. . .
What's with the stalks?
It is as safe.
It's not just political control.
Now we are told that
plan to commit murder. . .
political leaders.
Members of the Armed Forces
and National Police
we'll denouncing
as
during the past decade,
also in this decade. . .
were planning to end lives,
especially mine.
the American ambassador. . .
In October (2008)
there was the expulsion of the ambassador. . .
and in November (2008), the Embassy
and the DEA (Narcotics Agency) regulations.
How many times have you got arrested!
I was tortured.
Tortured.
E-trapped.
Tortured-by what?
I was accused of conspiracy
and revolt.
Tortured by Bolivian soldiers
DEA or the U.S.?
I was tortured
by Bolivian soldiers. . .
but were supervised
by the DEA.
When he was arrested last?
In 1997.
In 1997.
I was a member, but was
expelled from parliament in 2002.
The plan was to arrest me,
imprison me. . .
and disqualify me
Condo candidate as president.
But they failed.
For the first time. . .
not allowed here no
foreign military base.
-There is no now, no?
"If there is now? No.
Before there was now no.
Now he is joining. . .
Condo bad left wing,
to the U.S. media.
The media always
attempts to criminalize. . .
the struggle against neoliberalism,
colonialism and imperialism.
It's almost normal,
We can say that the goal
the Presidency. . .
will have
their own natural resources?
Replenish natural resources. . .
is the base of the economy
worldwide.
As he describes himself?
I feel more like a leader
of a union president.
Because as a manager
There is a constant struggle.
It's a constant struggle.
Sometimes,
Ministers tell me. . .
''You're President,
not say that!''
Including this one deputy minister.
Now I wake up
with green leaves. . .
You can go outside
one instant?
Show whether he is awake,
I do not know if it is.
I always have energy.
I want to play football
with the president. . .
he show me some passes.
He likes of Maradona?
In football.
Sure. . .
President Morales of Bolivia,
VISIT TO VENEZUELA
The new anti-American triangle
Spanish-speaking ...
Hugo Chvez of Venezuela,
says that the geopolitical map
Latin America ...
is changing
and he's right.
Buenos Aires
capital of Argentina.
A country that has done everything for 50 years
commissioned by the IMF ...
World Bank
and the U.S. Treasury.
In 2001, collapsed.
Banks closed.
Five presidents
fell in two weeks.
The president of Argentina
resigned today ...
because of violence sparked Condo
economic downturn.
against hundreds
of antigovernment protesters.
Unions call for
against the austerity measures
and unemployment of almost 20%.
People were Rs streets.
Factories were raided.
In a large park
Buenos Aires ...
union of all
localities, rich and poor ...
met
to discuss his fate.
Nestor Kirchner
was the president ...
and refused to agree
with the IMF conditions ...
forcing them to retreat.
When he finished his term,
his wife Cristina ...
with the same spirit Bolivarian
was elected.
It seems to me that
first in the region. . .
leaders look
the governed.
If Bolivia is r
and look at Evo's face. . .
her face is
the face of Bolivia.
It is the first time
it happens.
One of the last
presidents who had. . .
Sanchez de Lozada,
barely spoke Spanish. . .
lived in the U.S..
He had nothing in common
with Bolivians.
The other day I spoke
with a journalist, he said. . .
their revolution. . .
its changes, its socialism. . .
Condo Latin America
and this should not happen.''
I was told
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