70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.

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.

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

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

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

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.