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.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.