He is the pivotal leader who has helped to transform a country where, as late as the 1960s, Indigenous citizens were not allowed to walk on the white people's sidewalks (!), into a country where the Indigenous majority at long last has basic human and civil rights. He has also doubled Bolivia's gas revenues (their main resource) by savvy negotiation, and is using the money for education, health care, pensions, needed development and other benefits for all Bolivians.
Most North Americans would love to hear about these incredible social/political advances. The ones like you, who couldn't care less about the poor and the excluded, are few in number in the U.S., but get a big boost from the corpo-fascist media and your ES&S/Diebold so-called Congress.
Rafael Correa is one of the most popular presidents in the world. He, too, is a leader of an incredible social/political revolution. He is now in his second term, with astronomical approval ratings, in a country that, prior to Correa, couldn't keep a president in place and a stable government in place, from month to month. He has stabilized Ecuador and put it on a progressive path.
Most of our citizens here would love to hear about this--and about the leftist democracy revolution all over South America and into Central America. Our people are disgusted with corporate-run, 1%-er run government, which afflicts us no matter who is in office, and would love to hear about alternatives, about governments that actually do "the will of the people," and how such governments can be achieved. Latin America has produced many examples of government "of, by and for the people," yet we hear nothing about them in the corpo-fascist media, except for exaggerated, biased, negative news stories when anything at all goes wrong. We hear NOTHING about what is going right, why these leaders are so popular, why they keep winning elections, what their polices are, what the people who vote for them think about them and their policies. Nada.
You are just full of snark and sneers. You belittle these leaders. You, by implication, belittle the people who put them in office and the countries in which these great LEFTIST events are happening. Your posts are like the statements of street bullies--short, aggressive snorts and sneers, tearing others down.
OF COURSE most of our people would love to hear what Evo Morales and Rafael Correa have to say, IF THEY GET THE CHANCE TO HEAR IT. But it is CENSORED by our corpo-fascist news monopolies!
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