I've never liked to judge other people in the hope that they won't judge me.
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Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.
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After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.
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I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.
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We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists.
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Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights.
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You have troubles with violent indigenous movement around the continent. Here, we are putting more power in their hands and creating a nonviolent indigenous society.
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I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.