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Headlines : Government

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Taking a back-seat to his mentor, Hugo Chavez, at this year’s U.N. General Assembly address, Bolivia’s new president nonetheless took advantage of the opportunity to articulate the hopes and desires of his indigenous constituents to the meeting of world leaders. Adopting a much less antagonistic approach than his Venezuelan counterpart, Morales respectfully requested that the United Nations lend its support to the international stuggle for indigenous people’s rights and that the United States government cease its persecution of his country’s coca farmers. He repeated some of the rhetoric that he has used in the past to frame the hypocrisy of the U.S. government’s position vis-a-vis the coca trade and its neo-colonial corollary – the “War on Drugs.”

It is not possible that the coca leaf is legal for Coca Cola and that the coca leaf is illegal for other medicinal purposes in our country, and in the whole world.

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By Evo Morales
Republished from Counterpunch

The President of Bolivia issues a plea to the industrialized nations of the world to end their policies of neo-liberalism

It is an enormous satisfaction to be here present, representing my people, from my homeland, Bolivia and especially the indigenous movement.

I want to tell you, that after 500 years of be looked down upon, at times considered to be savages, animals, in some regions condemned to extermination, thanks to this consciousness and this uprising and to the struggle for the rights of the peoples, we got here to repair the historic damage, to repair 500 years of damage.

During the republic, we were equally discriminated against, marginalised, they never took into account this struggle of the peoples for life, for humanity during the last 20 years, with their application of an economic model – neoliberalism – that continued the looting of our natural resources, the privatisation of our basic services.

Convinced, and we are convinced, that the way of privatisation of basic services is the best way of violating human rights.

And these small considerations oblige me to say the truth here about the livelihoods of these families, I come to express this sentiment for the humanity of the peoples, from my people.

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A jaded Raskolnikov waiting in disgust for this sick society's imminent paradigm shift.

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Evo Morales' Address to the U.N. General Assembly

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