Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

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

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

I am not accustomed to protocol.

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 There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation.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.

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