As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our pe...
Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia.
This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.
In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly ...
[arriving in Bolivia] Butch Cassidy: You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it. Sundance Kid: What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?
Butch Cassidy: Jeesh, all Bolivia can't look like this. Sundance Kid: How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we're standing now. This might be the Atlant...
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and ...
I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
Lester Diamond: I'm sending this kid to Bolivia in a fucking box.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.
The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
[to Mortimer on Teddy] Dr. Gilchrist: I've just been appointed Ambassador to Bolivia.
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
