Bolivian brands Bush a 'terrorist'

: Arab TV

Reuters
Tuesday, December 20, 2005; 5:35 PM

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leftist winner of Bolivia's presidential election, Evo Morales, was quoted on Tuesday as calling President George W. Bush a "terrorist," but a spokesman in La Paz said the remark must have been mistranslated.

Morales spoke in Spanish to Arabic satellite television station Al Jazeera, which dubbed his comments into Arabic.


"The only terrorist in this world that I know of is Bush. His military intervention, such as the one in Iraq, that is state terrorism," Al Jazeera quoted him as saying.

"There is a difference between people fighting for a cause and what terrorists do," Morales was quoted as saying.

"Today in Bolivia and Latin America, it's no longer people that are lifting their weapons against imperialism, but it's imperialism that is lifting its weapons against people through military intervention and military bases."

A Morales spokesman in La Paz, who was present during the interview, said he did not remember Morales saying that and that he must have been translated incorrectly. Reuters translated Al Jazeera's Arabic into English.

Morales, who calls himself a nightmare for the United States, has alarmed the Bush administration with his opposition to its strategy in the war on drugs and his admiration for presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba, both vocal foes of the United States.

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Is that snow or cocaine on top of his head :eek:

Hmmm... I sense that after the Middle East, the US is gonna shift its attention in Central/South America. With Fidel getting on in years, there's gonna ba a major vacuum in Cuba, and they're gonna look to fill it with a pro-American, a symbolic victory.... South America will be the new Middle East!

Perhaps but I doubt Central America will become the next middle east. It will be very interesting to see what happens when Castro dies. I am looking forward to it to see how the people of Cuba react. I bet they will be happy. Do you think they will stop risking their lives everyday to swim to America?

When Castro dies pretty sure the Travel Embargo will end on Cuba

Big deal, just fly to Canada and then to Cuba. People do it all the time.