Glenn Greenwald Interviews Evo Morales

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/16/evo-morales-interview-glenn-greenwald/


How do you interview an ousted president? You meet him where he’s in exile.

Before receiving official refugee status in Argentina this past weekend, Evo Morales met with The Intercept in Mexico City, with Glenn Greenwald flying in from Brazil. In this 50-minute video interview, the Indigenous leader — Bolivia’s longest-serving president — recalls his final days in the country fighting an opposition that demanded his resignation: “They made the leaders of the Movement for Socialism renounce their positions by burning their homes and threatening their families. They pushed out the national leaders, the progressives, the leftists, and anti-imperialists.”

“It is not just an internal coup d’état, orchestrated by Bolivians, the Bolivian oligarchy, and some of the members of the armed forces and the police. It is also an external conspiracy. My crime, my sin, is to be an Indian," Morales tells Greenwald. “And to have nationalized our natural resources, removed the transnational corporations out of the hydrocarbon sector and out of mining. But also the fact that I reduced extreme poverty with social programs.”

Following our interviews with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and now Morales, we aim to continue this series with other leftist leaders in Latin America. Stay tuned for more coverage of the “pink tide.”

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Lauren Feeney
Director, Video Production











Watch: Glenn Greenwald Interviews Evo Morales in Mexico

The ousted Bolivian president spoke about the events that led to his removal and exile as well as broader trends in regional and global politics.

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