While they were sleeping…

Cheers for the people of Bolivia! I don’t know if what’s coming is good for the people of Bolivia, for the poor that make up the majority of the country, but, I can tell you that what they are leaving behind was hell; frustrating, shameful and demeaning hell.
When all is said and done; when all the attention shifts away from the Middle East and the greedy people that when cut bleed oil, the world will realize that a whole new continent, with a whole new attitude has, to their eyes, suddenly popped-up before them. I wonder what kind of hooks the powers that be will try to throw at them when all the other countries, like Argentina and Brazil are doing now, embark in paying off their debts with the FMI, once and for all…
A clean stale is always good. At least you know the past was paved with shit. Give it your best shot!!
Latin America’s new socialist revolution – 20 Dec 2005 – World News

At the end of a corridor is a room full of images of Che Guevara. Among them hangs a poster with the slogan, “I’d rather be an illiterate Indian than a North American millionaire”.
Thirty-eight years after his death in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes, trying to spark a revolution, the Marxist soldier of fortune’s boast reverberates in the dilemma now facing the nation.
In an election yesterday, Bolivia chose an indigenous Aymara Indian and radical former coca farmer over a Harvard-educated, American-married member of the business elite.
The two leading presidential candidates, Evo Morales and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga personified the bitter divide between the European-descended haves and the majority indigenous have-nots, in Bolivia and beyond.
Yesterday Quiroga conceded to Morales to become Bolivia’s first indigenous leader after Morales claimed about 50 per cent of the vote.
It means the nation will join Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and possibly Mexico next year in the rebirth of Latin American socialism, much to the chagrin of the United States.