82 - Third World Land Reform Would Allow Hungry People To Feed Themselves: Another Social Justice Measure The Right-Wing Tries To Kill

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🗓️ 23 February 2007

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today we're going to pick up from a few podcasts ago, and discuss another example of a Third World nation's people fighting for their very lives. It's yet another chapter in the book of global economic justice. Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed a sweeping land reform bill, to ensure that like his nation's other national resource, natural gas, Bolivia's fertile lands would be utilized for

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is Podcast Number 82 of Blast the Right.
0:23.6	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:30.7	Today, we're going to pick up from a few podcasts ago and discuss another example of a third-world
0:36.6	nation's people fighting for their very lives.
0:40.7	Let's get right into it.
0:42.8	My sources are articles and columns in the New York Times, the CIA Factbook, AmericanRetteric.com,
0:50.3	the Associated Press, and FoodFirst.org.
0:55.4	The story continues, a story that could be told around a campfire as an epic, almost legendary
1:03.3	tale of oppression and revolt, suffering and vindication, evil and good.
1:10.4	We started telling this story, eons ago, December 2005, Podcast 22, when Bolivia had just
1:18.2	elected a new type of president.
1:21.2	Quote, Avon Morales will be the first member of the indigenous majority to run Bolivia
1:27.6	since the conquistadors arrived nearly five centuries ago.
1:33.3	Quote, five centuries in the making.
1:37.4	It took that long, and we, or should I say the Bush administration acting in our name,
1:44.1	didn't help things at all.
1:46.8	Avon Morales won, despite intense U.S. pressure and warnings to Bolivians against electing
1:52.3	him.
1:53.8	Fast forward to last spring.
1:55.8	Another chapter, Podcast 44, when we discussed how Morales had fulfilled a campaign promise
2:02.0	and decreed the nationalization of that nation's oil and natural gas industries.
2:07.7	The crazy idea Morales and the vast majority of Bolivians who supported him had was that
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