Evo Morales rocks Leganés

:)

It is a wonderful article and speech by Evo.
:applause:

The question is, and now what? If Morales wants to follow Venezuela's lead into marxism, it's likely he'll destroy the country's economy. What then?

Capitalism seems to be more destructive. Where would the US be without Marxist China to support the economy.

half!

by someone who apparently didn't bother to read the speech before offering us the exalted privilege of seeing his opinion.

It does show these dirty, underhanded, scummy, filthy attempts to undercut others' credibility by trying to slur them is still ongoing, so many decades after it was first employed by US bulging-eyed, red faced fanatics. It's an old, dishonest way of trying to invalidate people, and others see it instantly for what it is.

From his speech:

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I remember perfectly well when I arrived at Chapare in 1980, when there were negotiations with the governors and when the union leaders, ex-union leaders brought up the idea of structural changes, and the response of the neoliberal governors was that the campesinos, the indigenous, had no right to political action and that our proposals to change the subject or the agenda of the negotiations were questioned, that they were of a political character. I remember that they told us (I was a delegate from the base), they told us, you are making political proposals and they will not be heard; they told us that the politics of the indigenous campesino movement in the tropical zone of Cochabamba were the axe and the machete. In other words, manual labor, and we did not have the right to political action. And in the altiplano, it was the shovel and the hoe; the shovel to work and the hoe to work as well. Little by little that social movement went about breaking the fear of politics. A few had the right to political action and the majority, the workers and laborers, we didn’t have that right and when a worker, a miner, during the sixties, seventies, eighties acted politically, he was accused of being a communist. We salute the Spanish Communist Party, the Socialist Party, we salute the humanists here, many thanks for having taught me how to defend life. We’ve had so many meetings, but I want you to know, brothers and sisters of Latin America, of Europe, social movements of this continent, our union leaders, in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s they were accused of being communists and persecuted, the coups d’etat, the military coups, in order to do away with the union leaders from the mining sector. So then, the doctrine of North American imperialism was to accuse them of being communists, and with that motive, there were massacres in the mining centers and many of the brothers who were mining leaders escaped, sometimes to Europe. I want to express my deep respect and admiration for the accommodation that was given to many of those mining brothers, campesinos who escaped to Europe in order to survive. Surely the humanist, communist, socialist governments have given them the shelter here of political asylum.

What a moment to celebrate for real Bolivian people.

This is a link to save for future reference. It's wonderful.

Here's a snapshot someone took of a moment in a performance of "La Diablada" in Bolivia:

http://media.ledger-enquirer.com.nyud.net:8090/smedia/2009/08/21/18/6Bolivia_Diablada_Dance.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.70.jpg

The same fascist rallying cries from the 1920s and 30s that brought Hitler to power are still in vogue. I have seen no studies that a deprived population leads to better stability or is better for business. To the contrary, It has been shown that raising the minimum wage spurs commerce.