Reply #12: Interesting..I hadn't read anything

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about this..too much else going on for me. But, reading your post made me google it and I found this..


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"As well as joining the new generation of left-wingers in power in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Mr Morales would become the first wholly Indian president in Latin America. He is seen as representing the country's disenfranchised and impoverished Indian majority, which has felt left out of the wave of "neo-liberal" reforms by Bolivia's white and Creole elite. These reforms have included the privatisation of state industries and Bolivia's gas deposits, South America's second largest after Venezuela's."

"I challenge the United States to create a real alliance to fight narco-trafficking," he said, as farmers next to him chewed the plant. "This coca leaf ... has given birth to our movement. We have to produce coca for the local market. Zero cocaine ... but not zero coca."



http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2427972005