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

There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel [Castro] it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

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

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