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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

the union of coca growers ...

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

was captured and killed ...

by order of the CIA in 1967.

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,

among other things ...

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,

my worst enemy is the media.

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 ...

Evo Morales of Bolivia ...

Hugo Chvez of Venezuela,

and Fidel Castro of Cuba ...

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.

At least 20 people died.

Now police fight ...

against hundreds

of antigovernment protesters.

Unions call for

a national strike ...

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. . .

Hugo Chavez wants to export''

their revolution. . .

its changes, its socialism. . .

Condo Latin America

and this should not happen.''

I was told

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