We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.
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Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
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Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
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This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
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We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
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Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
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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 people lived under for many centuries.
