Bolivia Vs. Bolivia

Reader Comments
Back to blog

I was Born in Bolivia and moved here when i was very young because my father couln't attend college there because riots on the colleges by the indigenous pleople you all hail as great poeple. I have been back to Bolivia around 30 times in my live for extended periods of time, ussually between 2 and 10 weeks at a time. My entire family lives there and my parents hope to retire there. What you don't understand about these indigenous poeple is that they are lawless they have no national pride and are moeved toward socialism because it benefits them. Every time i have been back to Bolivia there has been some blockade of roads by them or some riot. THey are a plague on the country and now they have one of their own in office. You tell me if you lived in Florida or Texas or Michigan and a large part of the country was lawless and had no national identity and then one of that group was voted into office wouldn'd you consider breaking away. I love Bolivia I don't want to see it become a socialist dictatorship or even worse a communist regime. You don't know what you are talking about because you are viewing it through the prism of your experiences in the USA. Bolivia is not the USA. It is very different. These indigenous poeple are not the good guys. Trust me.

Daniel Tapia of TX 12:24PM September 10, 2008

Very poor piece of blog. Pack of lies and twisted facts. Morales resoundingly won the elections and that you can not digest as these feudal lords of east.

Stevan Wake 11:42AM August 18, 2008

I was glad to see that the intentional misshandisting of information can not confuse anyone even in America,Bolivia is a indigenist country and the majority has expressed their will already ,they are tired of being exploited by the new nasis and corrupt few "whites" and now is when those racists are going to learn to respect the indians that are human beings, maybe better humans than them,Bolivian people are fighters and never surrender, the indian parents know that they can not afford anymore, to see how the Bolivian resouses are beeing stolen ,and just extreme poverty grows in the near future ,is time to change and clean the society and the indians know this ,is not a socialism what they look for is social justice and unity ,USA right wing must understand that something is changing but not just in South America ,but also here at home ,people are tired of being fooled by a "few" that hold all the money and pretending to be God determinated the destiny of millons of people that deserve better present and future. Go for Bolivia !take what belongs to you,your resources and their profits must stay for your children that are very proud of being brown ,all of you must posses your own land ,there is enought for everyone ,and feed your hungry children even if this will cost the head of those nasis so called "civics".

Laura Miller of TX 10:04PM August 15, 2008

Ditto Thomas Withers.

Thomas Field of GA 2:52PM August 15, 2008

I lived in Bolivia, in Sucre and Santa Cruz, for a total of three years as late as 2005. We, United States Americans, by and large do not understand the plight of the indigenous populations of the Americas. In the United States, our ancestors wiped out the First Nations peoples and forced the survivors onto reservations. In Bolivia, the Spanish nearly succeeded in doing this; but now nearly 5 million strong in Bolivia, the indigenous are saying that they've had enough of European (and their decendants') rule. In their worldview, they do not understand Western thinking nor capitalism; socialism is the closest idealogy that we have to label Evismo style politics and because "we" don't like "it" (socialism) we don't like Evo. But the Quechua & Aymara cultures of the Andean Altiplano have been living in a culture of near "socialism" for perhaps 2-3,000 years, but they called it something else & understood it differently than we. The indigenous will win in this struggle and we should show the patience that they have shown the European interlopers for the last 500 years and let them decide their fate. Enough of meddling with the other nations; enough with manipulating countries to do our bidding so that they serve our interests. ENOUGH!!! We need to deal with our own issues instead of hypocritically forcing others to be like our dysfuntional USA selves.

Thomas J S Withers of TX 2:23PM August 15, 2008

You say the Bolivian opposition is continuing in talks with President Morales. Wrong. The racist opposition has resorted to violence and threats, beating unarmed Indians on the streets of Sucre, attacking highland indigenous Bolivians in Santa Cruz. When Morales flew to opposition Tarija last week, members of the radical opposition occupied the airport, chanted racial slurs, and wouldn't let the president land his plane to meet with the Argentinian president. The mayor of Santa Cruz has called for a military coup d'etat and the region's governor supports the creation of a regional security force. It was President Morales who sent his personal plane to the country's lowlands this week to pick up each and every opposition governor to bring them to La Paz for talks. They almost refused to board the plane!
Morales boasts 67% of support in the country. The opposition governors can't even claim that much within their own provinces. He has nearly doubled the amount of money going into the development of the east (where the opposition governors are causing so much trouble). The racist, eastern governors want control of the money, nothing more. They are corrupt Boss Hogs who are using violence and extra-constitutionality to force their minority opinion on a Bolivia that is otherwise prepared to turn its back on its poverty-stricken, corruption-ridden past.

Thomas Field of GA 9:20AM August 15, 2008

Bolivian democracy versus the old oligarchy would be more accurate. Evo Morales won over two thirds of the vote and over 40% in every one of the opposition-controlled provinces. That is a democratic mandate for change.
No US President in living memory has ever received so much support from the voters. Funny how democracy only counts when the rich win the votes.

Richard Cheeseman 2:25AM August 15, 2008

THE OPPOSITION GOVERNORS WANT TO BREAK UP BOLIVIA AND FORM A NEW REPUBLIC IN THE ORIENT--OF COURSE, THE GOOD OLD U.S.A IS BEHIND THIS AS WELL IN THEIR SUPPORT OF RIGHT WING AGENDAS.AMERICANS AND SOME FOREIGN CAPITAL WANT TO CONTROL SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES IN THE END.ALL POLITICS IS ABOUT YOUR OWN INTERESTS AND MONEY.THE PEOPLE OF PODEMOS AND OPPOSITION CIVIC LEADERS PROBABLY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY STASHED IN SOME MIAMI BANKS BY NOW. BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS GOING TO A CIVIL WAR-- WHICH THE OPPOSITION CANNOT WIN. MOST OF THE SANTA CRUZ POPULATION IS NOT WHITE, THE ONLY WHITES AND MESTIZOS ARE IN THE CIVIC CONVERVATIVE GROUPS AND YOU SEE THEM ON TV ALWAYS HANGING TOGETHER. THE MAJORITY INDIAN POPULATION OF BOLIVIA WILL RISE UP AND THEY ARE GOING TO LOCK UP THE COUNTRY NO ACCESSS, NO FOOD, NO EXPORTS, NO NOTHING. UNTIL PEOPLE COME DOWN ON THE TABLE AGAIN BY THE FORCE OF REALITY. THE U.S. SHOULD SUPPORT EVO IF THEY WANT TO GET MORE BUSINESS IN BOLIVIA, BECAUSE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, A CIVIL WAR WILL CAUSE ALL OF THE U.S. COMPANIES THERE NOW TO LEAVE AND MAYBE LEAVE FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS. ANYWAYS GOOD LUCK. I BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY AND NOT IN AMERICAN HYPOCRICY.

HEGEL of VA 6:31PM August 14, 2008