There is a huge difference between small-business capitalism and unfettered multinational capitalism which controls government, otherwise known as fascism. Morales is for the former and against the latter–and you should know that.

You claim “The people who have the lands or companies, is people who have work very hard to get them and make them productive….” yet fail to understand (or admit) that the largest and richest stakeholders bought their positions with bribes, or used force to steal them from the indigenous. Morales has stopped that, and intends to reverse those illegalities.

You then pose a ’strawman argument’ with a fictitious tale about Morales supposedly dividing up a 1000 hectare (~2,500 acres!) farm and giving it to 1000 families with the suggestion that they could not prosper from it. There is no basis in fact for that suggestion. In fact, Morales’ reforms would limit individual land-holdings to 10,000 or 15,000 hectares (25,000 or 37,500 acres)–certainly plenty of land to achieve farming prosperity.

Then you claim–”Understand, just a goverment can not support all the people,, the people must be able to support them selves, what a goverment must do, is to support them to achive goals, starat companies, improve education!!”–all the while failing to understand (or admit) that by providing more Bolivians with the means of production (land), that more people will be able to support themselves, and start their own companies so that government handouts will be less needed.

With the neo-liberal economics that you suggest, were most Bolivians educated? The answer is unfortunately no. Since Morales’ was elected, and due in large part to the help of Cuba, many Bolivians are now literate who were previously denied any education.

And lastly, you accuse Bolivians of being corrupt and lazy. From my experiences in Bolivia (as opposed to your pot-shots from without) I can attest to the fact that there are few harder-working and more honest people on this earth, and why you seem to want to tear them down is a mystery leading me to wonder whether you have another agenda, or if it is you, not Mark who is the uneducated one with the hubris of the kettle calling the pot black?

What is your real agenda, Cleo?

With little regard,,,John

For the european people which are thousands of miles away from us, is easy to think that Morale´s is trying to do the best for his country, Bolivia must be for Bolivians…. This can be obvious for you and for the people who has commented the report, but I guess for you is the first time you hear about Bolivia, for sure you have not read anything about the Southamerica history before.

The people who have the lands or companies, is people who have work very hard to get them and make them productive, of course, they have to do some kind of associations with companies who has the technology and the markets, because education in Bolivia is very poor, and the goverments have never attend this. Well sometimes this associations are not equilibrate that´s true, but what Morales must do is support them to improve their companies, their deals, in that way they can give employment to the rest, and people must get use to work!, they can not spend their lifes waiting for some goverment to give them a house or food!, how you are going to expect some improvement in your country with people who do not care to improve their way of living???

Imagine someone who has a land of 1000 hectareas, in this land this guy has some cows and after hard work, he hass start a small company of meat, and he sell the meat in the town.
Well, one day the goverment decide to take him the land and divided it by 1000, so you think, oh.. now you have land for 1000 families,,,,but this families do not know how to work in the land!

Now,,, you have 1000 families asking for food and meat, because the small caws company has dissapeared….

Understand, just a goverment can not support all the people,, the people must be able to support them selves, what a goverment must do, is to support them to achive goals, starat companies, improve education!!

And please.,,, forget the States!!! this is a very old excuse!! Bolivia and some other countries in Latinoamerican have not be able to progress because of the corruption and the lazy people.

Bye

From what I understand the racisms is fierce in Bolivia (Spanish decent/ indigenous) and a huge motivator for the autonomy vote.

While I was a hopeful of Morals initially he fell in the death trap of mid-20th century Cuban soviet style government – NATIONALIZE!!! Another big yawn, plus he only won with 53% of the vote not like it was a huge margin. He sent the Army and seized 90% of the gas industry. Later Morals tried to change the Constitution from 2/3 to only 50% needed for Constitutional amendments. Acts that aren’t very conciliatory but aimed at provoking conflict.

The fact that the rich answered with only a political vote to secede speaks to restraint and an evolving standard of political decency in South America

And while I’m a big Obama supporter, contributor and volunteer…why would you think that he would abandon the United States economic, diplomatic or military interests? It might look different, there might not be aircraft carrier landings in flight suits, and no shock and awe, and no preemptive war, he will protect and advance American interests (even the ones you don’t like)