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S8 Ep888: PREVIEW for Later Today: Evo Morales: A Cuban-Linked Threat to Bolivian Stability. Guest: Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Alejandro Peña Esclusa discusses Evo Morales's efforts to regain power in Bolivia through organized turmoil. Morales, a Cuban-educated region

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

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PREVIEW for Later Today: Evo Morales: A Cuban-Linked Threat to Bolivian Stability. Guest: Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Alejandro Peña Esclusa discusses Evo Morales's efforts to regain power in Bolivia through organized turmoil. Morales, a Cuban-educated regional leader for coca growers, is linked to drug trafficking and ideological interests directed by Cuba.
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel.

0:02.0

Collegagallag Alejandropina Excluza reminds us that Evo Morales, out of power for many years now, is always a threat.

0:11.0

And the trouble in Bolivia now, including dynamite throwing by miners,

0:15.0

is most likely driven by Eva Morales, who wants power back.

0:19.0

Who is he? What does he represent?

0:21.9

What does it mean that he's got the forces of the disorder on his side?

0:27.5

Here's Alejandro to introduce us once again to Eva Morales, and where he went to school in Cuba

0:33.6

and his strikingly significant classmate when he was a school in Cuba and Havana under

0:40.8

Fidel Castro. More tonight. Well, Cuba is responsible for this kind of turmoil. That's why it's so

0:50.1

important to have a change of regime in Cuba.

0:54.3

Why do I say this?

0:55.9

Because Evo Morales is not only a founder of the Sao Paulo Forum, but he studied in Cuba

1:04.1

in the in the in the Niko Lopez at his name, Nikolópez, Higher Center for Ideological Studies, were also Nicolaas Maduro studied in Havana.

1:16.6

So this guy, Evo Morales, has always been working for Cuba.

1:21.6

Also something even more important is that he's a leader of the coca growers syndicates in

1:30.3

the chapari. It's a song for coca growers in Bolivia and even though coca, growing

1:38.3

coca is not legal, they are related to cocaine and drug trafficking. So he is related to drug trafficking.

1:46.4

This kind of turmoil, he's organized many times in the past, not only in Bolivia, but also

1:52.8

in Peru, where he has many friends and many allies and in all the region where the coca growers

1:59.5

exist because he's a regional leader for coca growers.

2:04.3

And he's willing to do whatever to recover power in Bolivia.

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