I am an englishman who has lived in Bolivia, hopes to live there again – I’m away working otherwise I’d be there now – and has family there.
Evo Morales is no thug. From what i saw living in the opposition heartland, he and his party are quite the opposite, in fact.He has, if you care to read any detailed account of the events of the last few years – years I witnessed at close hand – repeatedly backed off from using violence against the Bolivian opposition whilst their tactic – or is it a strategy, I can never tell?:) – has clearly been to provoke him into doing something for those sentinels of freeed’m ‘n democracy on the US extreme right to scream ‘TYRANT!’upon which the covert military operations that have gone on in that country and others in the region since the ‘election’ of Bush II will be made legitimate. The US in Bolivia is acting as agent provocateur. I apologise to any Republicans reading this for using a french expression there, I know how much you hate all other countries.
You need to be aware of the kind of embarrassingly transparent lies you are parrotting.
Morales is a man who was elected on a platform – 67% of the population at the last internationally monitored and verified count – to take the country’s hitherto stolen and fire-saled resources (water, gas) out of the hands of the few largely corrupt rich people who sold them off and put the money in the hands of the many poor, those often denied even the basics of a decent life.
One of his definitions of socialism – the word means different things to different people – is that a country’s national resources and any industries which are of necessity to the quality of life in that nation such as telephony, should be made the property of that nation and the profits fed back into the nation.
He is against the robber baronry of your President Cheney and his hand-puppet Bush. He is not against private business. My partner has a government loan to start up a small business. He wants people to start businesses and make the country more prosperous, not just the few rich families in and around Santa cruz.
I hope this helps to correct some of the drivelling extremist gibberish you have written about Bolivia in order to allow your ivy league terrorists and thugs to wage another war on the poor (see Nicaragua, Chile).Thank you.
