Evo
Morales Urges 'Democratic Revolutions Against US
Empire'
By teleSur
May 25, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "teleSur"
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The Bolivian
president said socialist governments in South
America must launch democratic revolutions to
counter U.S. plans to regain control.
Socialist governments in Latin America must relaunch
“democratic revolutions” in order to combat the
strategies in play by the United States to regain
control of the region, Bolivian President Evo
Morales said in an interview aired Monday night.
"In some countries it should be like a wake-up call
where [governments] must start permanent conferences
to relaunch democratic and cultural revolutions for
Latin America and the Caribbean [region]," Morales
said from Cuba in an interview with Cubavisión.
The Bolivian head of state further warned that
several socialist governments in the region are
facing "a battle against the empire" which has
launched a campaign to discredit and destabilize
those governments.
"It is the plan of the American empire that wants to
regain control of Latin America and the Caribbean,
and especially in South America, and there surely is
an ambition to establish a United States presence in
these countries and recover subservient governments
as a model, as a system," Molares added.
He added, however, that the peoples of the region
have a good memory and therefore it is difficult for
the onslaught of the right to achieve its
objectives.
"When the right wing returns to power they will
remove the socialist benefits and shrink the state,
which will generate a reaction. That is why I think
[right-wing governments] are not going to advance
this new attack by the United States using
oligarchies and the right conservative parties in
these countries,” Morales said.
His comments come as governments in Venezuela and
Brazil face an offensive by U.S.-backed right-wing
opposition parties, who are seeking to rollback on
many of the socialist and progressive programs and
policies implemented by left-wing governments over
the years. |