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| Dancing with Evo Morales - Bolivia |
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May 2006
He jokes that he's America's worst nightmare
and plans to nationalise Bolivia's oil
industry and overturn the old social order.
As yet another South American country 'goes
left', we profile Bolivia's new President.
As a former union leader, Evo Morales is more
accustomed to attacking governments than
leading them. But Bolivia's first ever
indigenous President has ambitious plans for
his country. "Sooner or later there must be a
profound transformation", he vows. "I want a
new economic model." Morales' first objective
is to seize back control of the country's
national assets, including its enormous
natural gas reserves. "Oligarchies won't just
give up. They want to continue sucking the
Bolivian people's blood." A series of forced
privatisations imposed by the World Bank and
IMF left Bolivia the poorest country in Latin
America. Now, Morales has pledged to
renegotiate existing oil contracts. Actions
like this -- and his close friendship with
Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro -- have sent
shivers down Washington's spine. But any
heavy-handed action from the White House
could backfire. As analyst Jim Shultz
explains: "America's fear is that it will
push Bolivia into the arms of Hugo Chavez."
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