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- Three questions
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Jacques Gaillot
Election of a native Indian in Bolivia
is a turning point in the history of this country. What are your
comments?
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It is a victory of democracy. People
have won. Dictatorship is gradually falling, in Latin America
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- Since the fall of the Berlin wall,
there have never been so many men and women living in a democratic
regime. The advance of democracy is a sign of our time. The election
of a native Indian in Bolivia is an event. An Indian brings the
hope of poor people. What a responsibility!
This election together with the
anti-American politics of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela seems to be
a return of ideology in Latin America. What do you think?
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- The great ideologies that should
change the world died one after the other. Today we are fortunately
more pragmatic. Since the world forum of Porto Allegre there
is hope that another world is possible in which people will be
directly associated with it. This is what is happening now in
Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia. This will spread to other countries.
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How is it possible that people do not
get the most of these huge amounts of natural resources? People
have a miserable life when there are some who collect colossal
fortunes! |
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- "Oil for the poor"
of Hugo Chavez and "oil for the rich" of Gorges Bush
is it the same fight?
Whatever the cause, oil seems today an essential political tool
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In the coming centuries, oil resources
will be gone. Those who are rich today will be poor tomorrow.
Then we have to bet on renewable resources of energy. We will
have to change the way we live. |
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- Today countries producing oil have
their say, we need them.
- They are rich but who benefits of
this wealth? Before being a political arm, I believe that oil
is a question of social justice. It is on this ground that we
should act.
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(Interviewed by Olivier Galzi)
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