EVO MORALES - DAILY SHOW

[Mika]

Run time: 08:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjhNWmslKg   Posted on YouTube: September 26, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 27, 2007 By DU Member: Mika Views on DU: 1318

 
From Sept 25 2007.

[Tuesday_Morning]

1. He's great...

A breath of fresh air.

[TwilightZone]

2. I watched that last night - pretty damn impressive.

The world could use more leaders like him.

[IndyOp]

3. Wow. "Axis of Hope" is right!

Good article by Tariq Ali on ZNet...
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11545

In the Muslim world religious groups that are militarily effective, but politically limited dominate resistance to the American Empire. Asia is infatuated with capital. Europe lies buried deep in neo-liberal torpor, and the Left and social movements in the EU (Italy is the most recent example) are in an advanced state of decomposition. But in South America an axis of hope has emerged that challenges imperial domination on every level. Democracy, hollowed-out and offering no alternatives in the North, is being used to revive hope in the South.

The likely re-election of Hugo Chavez this weekend in Venezuela will mark a new stage in the process. His opponent, Manuel Rosales, described in the Financial Times (November 30) as a "centre-left" candidate was heavily implicated in the defeated coup attempt to topple Chavez in 2004. Rosales claims that "I will not sit on anyone's lap" but it is hardly a secret that he is firmly attached to the White House.

The wave of revolts and social movements spreading unevenly across the South American continent today are the inevitable result of the Washington Consensus, the economic enslavement of the world. Latin America was the first laboratory for the Hayekian experiments that finally produced the Consensus. The Chicago boys led by the late Milton Friedman, who pioneered neo-liberal economics, used Chile after the Pinochet coup of 1973 as a laboratory. It was a good situation for them. The Chilean working class and its two principal parties had been crushed, their leading cadres killed or "disappeared". Six years later, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua was crushed by a US-backed Contra counter-revolution.

Earlier this month, the Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega won the Presidency in his country. Blessed by the church, flanked by a former Contra as his vice-president and still loathed by the US ambassador, Ortega may be a sickly shadow of his former self, but his victory undoubtedly reflects the desire of Nicaraguans for change. Will Managua follow the radically redistributive policies of anti-imperialist Caracas or confine itself to rhetoric and remain a client of the International Monetary Fund?

More... http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11545

[ret5hd]

4. Humble dignity personified.

[Mika]

5. Hey, y'all.. why don't you join in on some of the Cuba threads?

Love to have you all join in on some spirited discussions.

:hi:


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[Cybergata]

6. I'm in Love!

Evo Morales is beautiful and I adore the man. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[Cha]

7. That settles it! I want to go

check out America del Sur! What a good looking man..I like his apparel too.

Jon says the process is "rigged" here and Evo says "something needs to be done to change that"!! Yeah, buddy!

What a pleasure that was..thank you, Mika!

[Gato Moteado]

8. an honest world leader who cares about people.....

...wow, the freeptards must hate this guy.

[Mika]

9. Almost as much as Fidel Castro.

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[rjones2818]

10. Go Evo!!!

He's part of the revolution in South America! I'm glad he got to be interviewed.

[Selatius]

11. A long time ago, people like him could become president in the US. Today, that's not true anymore.

Those days are gone. I don't think I'll live long enough to see another president who personifies quiet dignity and a tremendous sense of caring for the poor and downtrodden that Morales displays.

[Reader Rabbit]

12. Now *that's* an impressive human being!

So soft-spoken and gifted with a simple, straightforward eloquence. Proof positive that you don't need to yell to get your point across.

May he be the first of many such leaders!

[Metta]

13. Uplifting. Thanks.

Even if he didn't answer what he did for those who lost land and wealth.

[insane_cratic_gal]

14. Leave it to Viacom

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc.

I didn't get to see it =/

[Mika]

15. Here's another link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XgTtIcGfio