Is Evo Morales Dividing or Uniting His People?

[@Gestaltism]

These children need their indigenous language taught in schools!

[@cmirymiry75]

Evo is uniting his people. Bolivia was divided by the white oligarchy, catholic church, and other countries. Evo Morales is re-establishing the rights of the Bolivian people and their natural resources.

[@unexpectedpigeon6654]

By stealing all the money the people pay in taxes. It was a few billion for a small ass crowded ass not even finished looking ass highway. Rather have a religious country than this Indian fuck in office

[@LeekyKale]

UnexpectedPigeon unspurisngly you are a racist piece of shit

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Yea they are going backwards

[@Johnyukura2007]

nah

[@MilkoSinani]

As a bolivian american I’ve have the opportunity to learn about the struggle of civil rights. To me this seems no different; indigenous people are finally getting their own rights. What I find disturbing is the level of colonialism in bolivian society and how it dominates the thinking of some citizens. For example the lady of mixed race (mestizo) that mentions that indigenous culture is not her culture, even though she is from Bolivia felt very racist, ignorant and self deprecating to me.

[@sergioveyzaga2411]

As a Bolivian-Canadian (and whose grand-dad fought in 1952) I'm relief that Indigenous people in Bolivia are not treat like criminals or being enclosed in ghettos called "reservations" like in Canada.The British couldn't imagine that imposing Atomic Individualistic (Liberal) values on Collectivist cultures was a QUITE BAD IDEA, but according to Alan Macfarlane the English seen it as natural since 1290.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Maybe it’s not that person’s culture but you are being sensitive and playing the victim when u call that person racist. Screw you

[@alvarez6487]

The right or ruling class screams “dictatorship” when their party doesn’t win or when they feel they are losing their entitled power. I believe Evo is trying to bring justice and equality while the rich and wealth and class hierarchy at risk. Evo Morales is uniting Bolivia. His government has brought prosperity to Bolivia without selling out the country and selling its workers. It has increased wages, lowered extreme poverty by half, and has lowered inequality.

[@miguellujeronvelasco2192]

Mi bolvia es bonita

[@imodsimon]

It’s painfully obvious what is happening here, as we’ve seen it around the world over the course of the past century: an oligarchy allied with the Roman Catholic Church seeks to preserve its privilege and its properly at the expense of the politically disenfranchised and economically marginalized majority of the country’s population. Indeed, the United States intelligence apparatus (coordinated by former US Vice President Dick Cheney ) was central in fomenting secessionist movements in the wealthier parts of the country to weaken the central government of Evo Morales. Unless the majority of Bolivia’s people assert their rights and their power to determine their country’s future, this is not going to and prettily.

[@samson136]

@Bill Carson typical oblivious american

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Typical white liberal american.

[@salpuccinimolitierno7016]

Evo Morales has done there country a disserves. His critisism of the USA will come back to haunt him and Bolivia

[@josejonhson674]

Honduras is govern by an American puppet how are they doing?

[@ugoflores5527]

Fuersa Evo Morales grande presidente 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷 el mejor presidente que tuvo la Bolivia

[@cavaleer]

I like what he's doing but "the state" cannot be the source of wealth. This will always lead to disaster.

[@phillipsmith3422]

Either the wealth of a country beongs to it is people or it will exhausted by a few. This is the fallacy of capitalism.

[@hollypatrick1050]

Evo increased their reserves from 12% to 48% and income growth 14% and hydrocarb from 9 to 35%, www.amigosdeboliviayperu.org/NewsStories2014/B799BolEconGraphs.html

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

I wish Evo all the best. I really think he has very good intentions. But I find that he got talked into some dogmas that make it hard for him to unite the country. It’s difficult with these many ethnicities for sure. And he must be extremely careful not to open old wounds. I can see that he got to power with at least a good portion of support also by the white middle class, while his main support is of course in the indigenous population for who he must be like a liberator. But I wonder: Just as it is wrong to impose European culture on the indigenous it is wrong to impose an indigenous culture on the white minority. They won’t cooperate but are still key to a good development of Bolivia. As much as I wish Evo could succeed, it’s unlikely to work if he antagonises White folks, who for the most part are just common people even with probably a better living standards. They may seem privileged but are not as bad as it seems. By imposing too much on them he could be wasting the goodwill of the eastern middle class, which makes them side with the oligarchs and call for the imperialists to intervene. I hope he does a better job than Maduro. His failure to develop anything but an oil based economy was exploited by America.

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

Bill Carson I was thinking the same thing. But I could also understand that the one woman rejected the push for her having to learn a language that wasn’t part of her cultural upbringing. It’s one thing to require learning the majority language for immigrants, but a totally different thing to demand reorientation for people who already live there for many generations. Even if their heritage is from the conquistadors, it’s really not their fault. It would be like pushing Americans to learn Cherokee. I still don’t really believe it’s an issue though in Bolivia. The Mestizos seem to be very tolerant towards white folks. So I guess the amount of oppression of whites may be exaggerated in movies like this one. Someone like Pence and Bolton and Abrams would like to see this being an issue. I’m just worried that this interventionalism will also be turned against Bolivia as soon as they can create enough unrest and conflict.

[@sergioveyzaga2411]

@@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344 U don't get it, Bolivia is an Inter-Cultural State, being Bolivian is basically a citizenship (u accept the social contract to follow the rules of the State). The Bolivian State is ONLY the administration on the territory of the Nations (the 36 cultures) . There is nothing wrong with learn any of the 35 South American languages+1 European which Bolivia has as official ones, my mom learn Guarani and on many Urban centres Spanish is widely use as a 2nd language . .Of course the coup is a different discussion and has to do more with the Historical dialectic between Falangism and Revolutionary Nationalism since 1952 .

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

Sergio Veyzaga You need to take into account that I wrote this a year ago before that brutal military putsch, and I obviously underestimated the dangers of an overthrow then. I have never been in Bolivia and all I know about it is from several, possibly biased, documentaries. I could perceive that there was a conflict building simply from listening to a number of interviews with members of the white population. And some of them were complaining that their culture was “repressed”. Of course those are exactly the kind of opinions that would be selected by the enemies of Evo Morales, and I suspect there were exaggerations among them. In retrospect I believe now that some of these documentaries may have been part of the propaganda preparing the overthrow. I still follow the developments and I am actually now more convinced than before that Evo did his very best but was betrayed in the most despicable way. Part of that was probably that certain false friends made him believe that all was well, and that the opposition to his government was limited and too weak to succeed an overthrow. And it’s clear that without American and some European intervention this putsch would have failed.

[@landscape674]

evo is another name for marx

[@salpuccinimolitierno7016]

Si.

[@cmirymiry75]

Bolivians thought that the ' Gringos and Europeans " were kind of superheros for the Bolivians. Nowadays they understand that is not the reallity. Like their ancestors, the true white super hero still to arrive sometime soon., I hope.

[@Gestaltism]

If I were president of the United States I would ensure that all students would learn an indigenous language.

[@BadHombreDaniel]

Why tho

[@robertomunozm07]

Evo is destroying our industry

[@syedadeelhussain2691]

Has Evo fled to Mexico?

[@lacuevadelvampiro]

that lady speaks better Spanish than me.

[@somiadorelegit7331]

Hum, I like some nuances in the translation...

[@prosun86]

So much stupid religious whining. Not to mention other baseless propaganda. Thumbs down to this video. Unsubscribing.

[@SasoriHere231]

you see what happen to sudan when they split they became weak.

[@whowereweagain]

Psychedelic class warfare now! e. Middle class boogerguys are mad lol. fuck I wish we had a ecogeographically embedded indigenous culture here in the USA that could actually do something for themselves.

[@SasoriHere231]

very arogant this girl