Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, and Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera sing their country's national anthem during celebrations of the 187th anniversary of Bolivia's independence. Aug. 6, 2012. AP Photo/Juan Karita. All rights reserved
Extracts of vive-president Garcia Linera's address at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (May, 27, 2016).
"We are facing a historical turning point in Latin America. Some are talking about a throwback, about restorers moving forward. The truth is that in the last twelve months, after ten years of intense progress, of territorial diffusion of the progressive and revolutionary governments in the continent, this progress has stalled, in some cases it has given ground, and in some other cases its continuity is in doubt. Wherever conservative forces have succeeded, an accelerated process of reconstitution of the old elites of the 80s and 90s, which seek to take control of the management of the state, is under way.
