Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

We are not interested in protecting U.S. interests, ... We don't want to protect policies that fail to resolve the problems of the majority in our country.

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.