Evo Morales: I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President

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Capitalism lives from war. Capitalism needs wars in order to sell its weaponry.  — Evo Morales

Democracy Now!
April 23, 2010

Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: “I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President”

As the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba closes, we speak to Bolivian President Evo Morales about the US decision to cut off climate aid to Bolivia; narcotrafficking; the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars in Cochabamba; the protest at the San Cristóbal silver mine; and the contradiction between promoting the environment and extractive industries—oil/natural gas exploration, mining.

On Thursday organizers of the peoples’ summit released an Agreement of the Peoples based on working group meetings. Key proposals include the establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute polluters, passage of a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, protection for climate migrants, and the full recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [includes rush transcript]

(starts at 15:17)

via Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: “I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President”.

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From Thursday’s Democracy Now!:

• Ex-Leader of Bolivia Peasant Workers near San Cristóbal Mine Says Company Lied About Water Pollution, Demands Pay for Vast Water Usage
• New Senate Climate Bill Is “Slap in the Face to Everything that Earth Day Stands For”
• Mesa 18: Dissident Groups Host Alternative Meeting Outside World Peoples’ Climate Summit
• Bolivian Conservationist Calls for Preservation of Madidi Region, One of the Most Biodiverse Areas of World
• From Melting Glaciers to Structural Adjustment: Maude Barlow on the Need for Water Justice
• Bolivia Climate Conference Moves to Establish Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

From Wednesday’s Democracy Now!:

• Evo Morales Opens Climate Change Conference in Tiquipaya
• “The Most Important Event in the Struggle Against Climate Change”–Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Bolivia Climate Conference
• “The World Is Changing in a More Progressive Way, and It’s Taking Place Here”–Boaventura de Sousa Santos on Bolivia Climate Summit
• Why Is the US Cutting Off Climate Aid to the Poorest Country in South America?–Bolivian Climate Negotiator Angélica Navarro
• Bolivian Indigenous Activists Call for End to Polluting Extractive Industries Inside Bolivia

From Tuesday’s Democracy Now!:

• Bolivian Indigenous Activist: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamama
• As Protests Mount Against San Cristóbal Silver Mine, Bolivia Looks to Extract Massive Lithium Reserves, But at What Cost?
• Actress Q’orianka Kilcher on Climate Change Activism: Public Figures and Celebrities “Have a Responsibility to Help Give a Voice to the Voiceless”
• Pat Mooney on the Dangers of Geoengineering and Manipulating the Planet to Combat Climate Change