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.

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

Why should we compensate if we are not expropriating the assets of the multinationals?

The 500 years of Indian resistance have not been in vain. From 500 years of resistance we pass to another 500 years in power.

He told me the story of reconciliation... he told me it was not any concession from anyone.

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.