If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.