Presidents Of Bolivia

"We restore bilateral relations (with Venezuela) to strengthen strategic ties for the good of our peoples."

"Today we find ourselves facing a wide-ranging, systemic capitalist crisis that increasingly endangers the life of humanity and the planet. We should not only reflect on the economic, social, food, climate, energy, water, and trade crises, but also identify with clarity the origin, in order to change a system that reproduces domination, exploitation, and exclusion of the large majorities, that generates the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and that prioritizes the production and reproduction of capital over the production and reproduction of life. Alongside the wide-ranging, systemic crisis of capitalism, we see the final gasp of the unipolar world. But unfortunately we are seeing the gradual deterioration of the multilateral system, because of the whims of the capitalist powers that will not accept the existence of a multipolar world with a balance of power."

"We do not agree with talking about climate change because it is something that seems to necessarily happen. No, this is a climate crisis caused by the capitalist system that has done everything to bring us to this situation. Humanity is at risk and unfortunately the United Nations has not yet come to any concrete agreement to resolve this problem."

"[The vice presidency is] "the most stupid position of all" [...]. An office with a single objective, that of succession, with few clear powers."

"We are at the beginning, on the threshold of a new time and that new time has to have a new leadership."

"It is very comfortable to coup the government, it is the most comfortable thing in the world, it is a very profitable business, it is practiced every day [...]. This is the country of ultimatums, this is the country of "if you don't do this I am very sorry but you will have consequences", this is the country of people who get involved with dynamite to demand that we do whatever comes to their mind, good, bad or fair. I am not going to continue with that logic, because Bolivia cannot be governed by that logic."

"Bolivia is not yet a country of equals."

"A few days ago, my country lived through serious episodes of violence, which have forced us to reflect. We are aware of the fact that the last 21 years of democracy — the longest uninterrupted period in our history — are at stake as we face the legitimate pressure exercised by the marginalized sectors of our society, who deserve our attention. [...] Loss of trust in these essential elements of democracy is one of the greatest dangers to the future of our society."

"Politics is not the art of ethics."

"I am not a friend of demagogic positions and easy answers. My historical and ethical conviction is unalterable, but as a responsible citizen and much more as the president of Bolivians, my obligation is to reconcile the issues of principle with the demands of reality."

"I am not a person that you can handle as you please, I am not going to respond to things that I do not believe in, I am not going to accept doing things that I do not think I should do. I am not controllable, Carlos."

"Our maximum responsibility is to act with intellectual honesty in what we believe and to work in a dialectical process in which the end result is something we build, not something we just destroy."

"Writing is for me like breathing."

"Sánchez de Lozada sought to impose constitutional order and consolidate democracy with force. The result was a country on the brink of war [...]."

"The smallest evil that is inflicted on us seems to us a monstrous and horrible injustice. On the contrary, we are willing to consider the evils of others' light and to excuse and mitigate the injustices suffered by them."

"[Salamanca was] a small, bitter man with a sallow color, with a bifacial mestizo reflection. His expressionless physiognomy and cold, sidestepped eyes do not reveal any dynamism in him. no restlessness. His 70 weighed years and his old painful illness have made this old man an irascible being, full of pettiness and spiteful [...]. His poor build, his weak limbs, and his questioning face, eternally empty, keep pace with his retarded mentality [...]."

"Salamanca believed he was capable of waging a great war from his desk."

"The arrival of Salamanca to the presidency represented a challenge for Paraguay. On the other hand, the Bolivian politician's compatriots continued to think of his physical weakness as a sign of moral weakness."

"We must defend the Chaco because it is ours, and it is the heritage that our elders left us; not for us, men ephemeral that we will die tomorrow, if not for our children, for our grandchildren, for the old Bolivia."

"It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country."

"The political friend of today is the possible enemy of tomorrow. And vice versa. All those who work by a calculation of interest in politics must take that into account. Neither give your secrets to the friend nor give the adversary blows that cannot be forgotten."

"In general, past things come to be in the memory not as they were, but as we would like or how we wanted them to have been."

"Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled."

"What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream."

"Nothing is more ridiculous than a tyrant, whose fear is gradually losing itself."

"From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises."

"The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life."

"From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness."

"In some grocery stores there is an expressive sign that says: Today I don't trust, tomorrow I do. I have some desire to compare that sign the promises of happiness that life gives us."

"He who does not change in this changing world, perishes. He who does not know how to transform with the times has to be eliminated by them."

"In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good."

"Every time we experience a misfortune or a setback, we need to find a culprit. We accuse the wind if there is no other."

"All those who are not criticized, err. Those who are not watched, abuse. Those who are spoiled, become fat. Those who are applauded, are puffed up. A true superiority of spirit is needed to save oneself from those consequences."

"It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand."

"As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked."

"Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees."

"The strongest will, never fully does what it wants. It does what the circumstances allow."

"We don't have to complain about human selfishness: everyone cares about us, and even our enemies would like to correct our defects."

"Áñez’s choice of cabinet showed no signs that she intended to reach across the country’s deep political and ethnic divide. Her senior ministers includes prominent members of the business elite from Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s most populous city and a bastion of opposition to Evo Morales."

"We want to be a democratic tool of inclusion and unity."

"It’s important to preserve our cultural practices of our Bolivian people, because they enrich the national identity."

"Bolivia cannot continue revolving around a tyrant."

"Evo Morales does not qualify to run for a fourth term. It’s because [he did] that we’ve had all this convulsion, and because of this that so many Bolivians have been demonstrating in the streets."

"I dream of a Bolivia free of satanic inigenous rites, the city is not for the Indians who can leave to the plateau or the Chaco!!"

"Demonstrators took to the streets to decry the nation's interim president, Jeanine Añez. The protesters, made up largely of members of Bolivia's indigenous population, view Añez's rule as illegitimate and are calling for Morales to return."

"In Bolivia, indigenous-led protests continued to rage in La Paz Thursday, after Bolivia’s self-proclaimed interim President Jeanine Áñez swore in a new Cabinet with no indigenous members. Áñez is a right-wing Christian who’s previously blasted indigenous communities as “Satanic” in tweets that she later deleted. She said Thursday that exiled socialist President Evo Morales — who fled to Mexico after he was deposed by the military Sunday — would not be allowed to compete in a new round of elections."

"Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. Jeanine Áñez declared herself “interim president” in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12... Despite a lack of quorum rendering the move nakedly unconstiutional, Áñez was immediately recognized by the Trump administration and 10 Downing Street... like a parody of January’s events in Venezuela..."

"Añez also faces a challenge to her legitimacy in Congress, where lawmakers loyal to Morales tried to hold new sessions that would undermine her claim to the presidency... Morales’ backers, who hold a two-thirds majority in Congress, boycotted the session that she called Tuesday night to formalize her claim to the presidency, preventing a quorum. She claimed power anyway, saying the constitution did not specifically require congressional approval."

"Speaking to journalists, Áñez’s new interior minister, Arturo Murillo, vowed to “hunt down” his predecessor Juan Ramón Quintana, a prominent Morales ally, stoking fears of a witch-hunt against members the previous administration."

"Hours after the swearing-in ceremony, a New York Times reporter watched about 20 motorbike-riding civilians armed with metal pipes and chains travel out of Cochabamba’s main police station, as police officers saluted them and gave thumbs up on the way out. The riders did not carry any political affiliation, but Cochabamba’s Police Headquarters had flipped its allegiance to the opposition last Saturday, triggering a national wave of police mutiny that brought Ms. Añez to power."