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

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

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

The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.