We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.