Bolivia to swap organic food for Finnish technology: Morales

Bolivia to swap organic food for Finnish technology: Morales
May 23, 2010 - 4:35AM

ivian President Evo Morales said Saturday he would like Finland to provide his country with "clean technology," and in exchange Bolivia would send organic products to the Nordic country.

"We could protect our Mother Earth together," Morales told reporters in Helsinki during the first official visit by a Bolivian president to Finland.

"Finland could provide Bolivia with clean technology, while Bolivia could supply organic products to Finland," he said through a translator, without specifying the technology he had in mind.

Morales, who arrived in Finland Friday after a three-day visit to Norway, stressed that "industrial development is important."

"But there are technologies to do it while taking care of Mother Earth ... Bolivia is a developing country, but we want to develop using clean technology," he said.

Pursuing industrial development without respecting nature, insisted the controversial leftist leader, is a path that "leads to death."

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/bolivia-to-swap-organic-food-for-finnish-technology-morales-20100523-w396.html

The Sydney Morning Herald is showing its egregious corpo-fascist bias in this phrase.

"Pursuing industrial development without respecting nature, insisted the controversial leftist leader, is a path that "'leads to death.'"--SMH

Morales has something like an 80% approval rating in Bolivia. He is NOT "controversial." He is OVERWHELMINGLY popular. As for calling him a "leftist," did they ever call Bush Jr. a "rightist"? Did they ever call the slaughterer of a million innocent Iraqis and the torturer of thousands of prisoners "controversial"? So, WHY do they use this word, "leftist," and combine it with "controversial," when Evo Morales CLEARLY represents the VAST majority of Bolivians who OVERWHELMINGLY approve of his policies?