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Good interview. Kudos to the Daily Show for having this kind of guest. Don't think that he would show up on Leno.

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“I want to talk about what you ran on, what you promised. You promised to nationalize resources, and help distribute some of the money to the poorer folk, in Bolivia, convene a constitutional assembly, and institute agrarian reform. You did that within eight months of your election….”

What an evil man. Nationalizing resources - presuming that the wealth of the minerals under the soil of Bolivia belonged to the Bolivins.

Distributing money to the poor - instead of letting them starve in the streets or locking them up in filthy prisons like they deserved.

Agrarian reform - letting families have plots of land, most or all of which was going unsued, to use for farming and raising small livestock.

Truly the child of the devil.

Reagan - he would have fixed things - he would have privatized the minerals, given the deeds to his rich friends, and give them tax breaks on top of that. Reagan would have sent in the marines and shot and jailed anybody trying to grow food on land that he was planning to privatize and give back to his corporate buddies so that they could let it sit and do nothing and earn honest patriotic tax breaks.

Reagan would have made those lazy Bolivians starve to death in the name of freedom.

Frontline/World had an interesting piece on Morales last year: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/05/bolivia_on_the.html

"Like any good campaign film, On the Road With Evo combines public performance with private moments ... a video that helps to explain Evo's popular appeal while also managing to provide rare glimpses of the man off-stage. In those candid scenes, we meet a person who seems both confident and disarmingly relaxed."

Though he has very close relations with Hugo Chavez, he seems to me to be exactly the opposite kind of populist, i.e., one who is genuinely interested in the welfare of his people, as opposed to a megalomaniacal "revolutionary" interested in little more than concentrating more power in his own hands.

but! but! nationalised industries are socialist and communist and inefficient and bad for the people!!!!!! this guy needs to talk to ron paul about REAL economics!

I'm surprised that he hasn't been suicided yet. Why hasn't he shot himself in the back of the head with a shotgun, or stabbed himself twenty-six times (with four times in the heart?)

I saw reference to this interview first in Time's Quotes of the day: http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1666086,00.html

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