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  GeoffWard2

  Morales is an indian, and the indians do not want the road to development.
  
  If this is the path they choose, then forest paths to a more settled and rural life is the way Bolivia must go.
  
  No President is bigger than his/her people
  
  - except Chavez, perhaps.

  Sep 27th, 2011 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Kirk Nelson

  This scenery is well known in some south american countries where the country's natural resources are located on the indigenes lands or areas.
  
  So, all its citizens are against new infrastructures, becuase they are the least to receive its benefits to the contrary, they get the opposite of it, wich is health problems, food and animal contamination.
  
  Most dignitaries from countries on this region, fell to comunicate effectively with its indigenan population ,because promises are not met as they were told innitialy.
  
  Long history repeats againg and again, which indicates descomfort so local citizens opposite due to the fact that major infrastructures are not hospitals nor schools, just highways which obstacles their way of living.

  Sep 27th, 2011 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  GeoffWard2

  Since the 2nd century BC, when the transcontinental Silk Road opened up the Chinese hearthlands to the hinterlands, roads into the hearts of darkness change the worlds of peoples forever.
  
  Today, Zhang Qian is considered a national hero and revered for the key role he played in opening China to the world of commercial trade.
  Will Morales be the contemporary Zhang and bring high-rise to the hearthland, or will the desire for isolation prevail?
  
  It is entirely a matter of perspective, which is the route to better quality of life.

  Sep 27th, 2011 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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