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Morales Says Rich Nations Must Pay
Frank Bajak
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The world's richest nations must be made to pay
for the damage their profligate use of natural resources has caused in
Bolivia and other developing countries, President Evo Morales said
Friday.
"It's not possible that some in the industrialized world live very
well economically while affecting, even destroying others," he told
The Associated Press in an interview.
The first indigenous president of this country — whose rapidly melting
glaciers scientists count among the most profound signs of global
warming — said he and other Latin American leaders were exploring
possible legal means for demanding compensation for the developed
world's "ecological debt."
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After winning the presidency in December 2005 with 54 percent of the
vote, Morales has increased Bolivia's annual natural gas revenues from
$300 million to $2 billion a year by exerting greater state control of
the industry.
He has nationalized a tin smelter, most of Bolivia's largest tin mine
and the country's railroads, and government officials have suggested
they intend to move to nationalize electric utilities.
His government this year completed the re-nationalization of water
companies, a demand sparked by widespread popular protests. It is
currently negotiating the re-nationalization of the country's main
telecommunications company, Entel, which is owned by Telecom Italia
SpA.
"It's communication. You want to communicate, right?" Morales said.
"It's a basic service. It's a human right."
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Asked if his vision of socialism follows the Chavez mold, Morales said
the communal structure of Bolivia's indigenous societies and their
"way of living in harmony with Mother Earth" set South America's
poorest country on a different road.
"This is not the socialism of a leftist. It's the socialism of humanity."
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Expanding on public remarks last month in which he expressed his
desire that all U.S. military personnel leave Bolivia, Morales said he
wants all armed foreign troops out.
He said the only Venezuelan soldiers in the country are unarmed pilots
who fly him around in loaned helicopters.
"As far as I know, the only armed soldiers I've seen are those from
the United States," he said.
full article at
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/11/morales-says-rich-nations-must-pay.html
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