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Bolivia's president-elect continues Latin America's leftward slide.(Evo Morales)(Brief Article)

The New American

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Bolivia's new president-elect, Evo Morales, has not wasted any time demonstrating his communist revolutionary bona tides and his close ties to dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. Fresh from his victory in Bolivia's December 18 elections, Morales launched a world tour that took him first to Cuba on December 30 for a four-day visit, before going on to Venezuela to see President Chavez. His whirlwind tour then continues to France, Spain, Brussels (to meet with EU leaders), South Africa, China, and Brazil.

Morales, long a darling of the international left, is most frequently described by sympathetic journalists as a heroic champion of Bolivia's "indigenous peoples" and small coca farmers. However, there's much more to the picture. Since at least the mid 1990s, Morales has been a member of the Sao Paulo Forum, the notorious international terrorist conference whose most celebrated leaders include Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Brazil's President Lula da Silva.

At a 1995 conference in Buenos Aires, Morales ...

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