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President of Bolivia, Evo Morales

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(LIP-ir) -- In a conversation with journalists, after a ceremony at the monument of the founder of the APRA party, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peru's Premier expressed his thoughts about the behavior of Bolivia's President Evo Morales. The ceremony was held in the district of Cercado de Lima in commemoration of APRA's founder.

Peru's Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo, stated that Evo Morales put his manners aside when deciding to criticize Peru's economic policies during his visit to Peru.

"I think Mr. Morales has lost a little courtesy. When a person is a guest in a country, they should rise to the occasion," said an obviously perturbed del Castillo.

In a speech given to union leaders, representatives and members in the district of Villa El Salvador, Bolivia's president Evo Morales criticized Peru's economic policies and asked unions to stick together and fight the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S.

Morales congratulated all those who have made an effort to establish and carry out the ALBA project in Peru, stating that the plan Hugo Chavez had created was an excellent alternative for countries in the Americas.

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# Juan Blake says :
3 August, 2007 [ 08:59 ]

And what is all this talk? Give Evo access to the Pacific? He dosen't need to bleed Peru; let Baby Huey & Fidel take care of his needs. Ask the unions to fight the FTA? He is just asking his fellow communist brothers to undermine Peru's potential prosperity.

# Fred says :
3 August, 2007 [ 09:00 ]

What an a$$hat. Funny how foreign investment has pulled out of Bolivia and jobs are scarce. I wonder how much longer Chavez is going to pick up Bolivia's tab... I guess as long as the price of oil stays high.

# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
3 August, 2007 [ 13:50 ]

ALBA moves steadily forward despite gringo imperialism which is clearly on the run world-wide and especially in Latin America as for example:

Havana.  August 3, 2007

New areas in Bolivia illiteracy-free LA PAZ.—The Tito Yupanki municipality in Manco Kapac on the border with Peru became the sixteenth town in Bolivia today to declare itself illiteracy free. On hoisting the white flag in that town northwest of La Paz, the national coordinator of the "Yo sí puedo," Benito Ayma, expressed thanks for Cuba’s support in solidarity with that latest victory in the battle against ignorance. Ayma said that to date, close to 175,000 people throughout the country have learned to read and write with this innovative audiovisual method and more than half a million people are currently in classes doing the course. The goal to enable 1.2 million Bolivians aged 15 and over to be literate by the end of 2008, he noted, will make it possible for the country to declare itself free of that scourge, the third in Latin America do so after Cuba and Venezuela. Minister Danilo Sánchez, counselor at the Cuban embassy in Bolivia, explained to course graduates the importance of continuing with their studies as part of the post-literacy process. Sánchez also noted how the month of July was characterized by mass graduations in the country’s nine departments, and called on graduates to spread the word on the importance of this program for the process of change being undertaken by the government of Evo Morales. (PL) Translated by Granma International

# Fred says :
3 August, 2007 [ 13:55 ]

Wow, a story from Havana, where "freedom of the press" really exists.... it MUST be true.

# Charles says :
3 August, 2007 [ 20:47 ]

What exactly is "Gringo Imperialism"? I hear leaders such as Chavez and Humala throw that around but does it actually have a definition or is it something communists think sounds pretty. Help me out Jason W. Smith Phd. (by the way could you possibly have a more imperialist gringo name).

# xc says :
4 August, 2007 [ 08:55 ]

Gringo Imperialism is when north americans use their influence in south america in an attempt to make them rich and successful. A rich and successful latin american would make north america richer and more successful through trade. The whole idea is if your neighbour is rich, he'll have money to by your crap.

# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
4 August, 2007 [ 16:55 ]

Good question. Imperialism as we use it refers to the highest most developed phase of the Capitalist Stage. In fact, that was the name of Lenin's book "Imperialism, the Highest Developed Stage of Capitalism". It refers to the shipping of constant capital (machinery and factoies) to cheap labor centers all over the world and the capitalist governments back these installations with their own military force and that of comprador elements (like Garcia.) For a full explication go to http://idahosmith.com and read Chapter 12 of the book FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM.
Perhaps my books may have failed you but a great many people feel otherwise and as I said next spring in Habana we will be going through chapters 3 through 8 of that book at the biggest international Marxist conference since the collapse of the modern revisionists.

# Kriss Martins says :
5 August, 2007 [ 23:37 ]

Jason,

If you like to read history, you should read the history books that will teach you how and why communism failed.

I would like you to define 2 terms for me:
Free enterprise (as in any one can have or open a new business and be successfull)
Free open markets (as in how can you make and sell a better product(s) than your competitior and become wealthy)

Kriss

# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
6 August, 2007 [ 13:40 ]

Dear Kriss: I have actually explained in detail why free enterprise and free open markets are in reality antithetical to capitalism despite the propaganda. But, I don't have time to do anything more than to refer you to my full explication in chapter 12 of the book cited before (you don't have to buy it - I have it on the internet for readers who want it and at no charge: http://www.idahosmith.com download Part 1 and read chapter 12.

# Kriss Martins says :
6 August, 2007 [ 15:45 ]

Jason,

if you haven't noticed I am trying to engage in a public discussion with you.  I want to know how well you can support your communist views in a public written discussion.  The people that visit this site have the right to have a well balanced discussion so that they can draw their own opinions and make their own minds from the contents of this forum.

Do not hide behind your book and prove everyone here than your opinions and views have some merit by means of hard economic numbers and real references in history.

Let me remind you that your book is heavily biased and also that no one was contradicting your points of view while you were writing your book.

If, and only if, you really believe that the political views that you support are better for Latin America or for the poor people in Latin America, you will then engage in a civil and educated public conversation with me for the benefit of everyone here.

Anyone else's comments and suggestions are also welcome.

Best Regards

Kriss

# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
6 August, 2007 [ 16:34 ]

I'm not ignoring you but I am in the middle of financing a major commercial development here in Los Angeles and it's going to be a day or two until I have a chance to do your question justice in this context- i.e, why I referred you to an explanation of terms already provided. Give me time and I'll get back to this. Thanks. JWS

# Kriss Martins says :
6 August, 2007 [ 16:39 ]

Jason,

That is fair.

Good luck in your business venture.

Regards

Kriss

# George Bush says :
6 August, 2007 [ 17:06 ]

...I am in the middle of financing a major commercial development here in Los Angeles...

Another closet capitalist bashing the country that has given him everything he has. Why don't you donate your possessions to the poor and the get the hell out of the country you so despise.

# Anama says :
6 August, 2007 [ 17:38 ]

Check this out!:

".....I have described in my book SHINING PATH THE PERUVIAN REVOLUTION when we were in Ayacucho in 1977 (I have described the adventure that led me to assist Abimael Guzman and the PCP in formation of their Rebel Army in the same book.)"

and....
                          
"...I am in the middle of financing a major commercial development here in Los Angeles"...

Seems the statements written by to completly opposite people, one a radical criminal communist and the other an extreme capitalist, right? But it's not what it seems...Both were statements coming from the same person, so called Ph.D, Jason W. Smith, who dares to be proud of his "adventures" in Peru, adventures that left Peru in pain and fear for years, with over 70,000 people killed by the violence and the crimes his friends and pupils members of the Shining Path started. 

In Peru, we don't need a Castro, or a Chavez, or a Morales (how rude from him, but, what you can expect ?) or a person with nothing else better to do than to promote more blood to be wasted, more vilence and crimes. We don't need to be told what to read, or what channels we can watch, or what to think. We don't need charity from Venezuela, or Bolivia, or Cuba. We deserve better than one roll of toillet paper and one bar of soap a month to supply a whole family, like in Cuba. We don't need the so called intellectuals that talk about the goodness and supremacy of the communism, living at the same time under the protective wings of capitalism, where they have freedom of speach and comfort. You, my PhD friend, are no more than a confess criminal who should be in jail, and a big joke.

# Dr. John Michael Nahay says :
17 August, 2007 [ 17:30 ]

These corporation group and pro-business terrorist organizations are ILLEGAL in Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela. If communism and socialism are the LAW, then they are the LAW, and therefore they MUST be obeyed.
All these right-wing criminal fanatics need to be put into jail for 30 years.

CEOs and leaders of business should not interfere with workers doing
their jobs and getting paid by customers. This applies whether the customers are other corporations or governments or individuals.

Pro-business terrorists do not deserve a free ride from the government,
getting free military protection for THEIR causes.

Free-market principles should apply above all to the production of ideas.
If pro-socialist parties produces books and posters and other ideas, then that production needs to be protected.

Chavez and Morales are international heroes. Castro has his faults.

I do not agree with every decision of his. However, violently overthrowing Cuban government and threatening to murder Castro is illegal. It is a violation of Cuban law.

Now, if you wish to get rid of law altogether, consistenly, throughout the world, including arbitrary property law, then let's all agree to do that. And we'll concoct an entirely new and better, more interactive system. But, I know with 100% certainty that you do not have that in mind.

I am a proud American. I write to my legislators frequently,
demanding that the United States government supports Chavez and
Morales.  I am ashamed of cowardly, unpatriotic "Americans" in my country who refuse to fight a war for justice and freedom.

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