The Second Founding of Bolivia

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The Second Founding of Bolivia
by Eduardo Galeano

On the 22nd of January of the year 2002, Evo was expelled from Paradise. In other words: Deputy Morales was ejected from the Parliament.

On the 22nd of January of the year 2006, in the same hall of pomposity, Evo Morales was consecrated President of Bolivia.

In other words: Bolivia begins to discover that it is a country of an indigenous majority.

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That is also the history of all America, including the United States. Our nations were born all false. The independence of the American countries was from the beginning usurped by a very minor minority.

All the first constitutions, without exception, left out women, the indigenous, Blacks, and the poor in general.

The election of Evo Morales is, at least in this sense, equivalent to the election of Michelle Bachelet. Evo and Eva. For the first time an indigenous president in Bolivia, for the first time a woman president in Chile. And the same could be said of Brazil, where for the first time the Minister of Culture is Black. Doesn't the culture that has saved Brazil from sadness have African roots?

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