Chávez: Morales’ Victory Means the People’s Victory and the Beginning of a New Era for Bolivia

Venezuela celebrates along with the Bolivian people Evo Morales’
victory, a descendant of the Aymara people. "Evo, there is no doubt
our happiness is also big: Bolivar’s and Sucre’s country is starting a
new and definite battle for its dignity and sovereignty," expressed
President Chávez through a letter sent to his Bolivian counterpart

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías,
sent to the elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, a greeting
message on the occasion of the victory obtained in the electoral
process held in the South American nation last December 18, where the
fraternal Bolivian people ratified its decision of advancing on the
democratic path of participation and freedom.

Through a missive sent to Morales, President Chávez highlighted the
victory as the beginning of a new era for the nation, which he
referred to as "the favorite daughter of the Liberator."

According to the spirit of the letter, the president stressed that
more than 500 years passed by until an Aymara was elected president,
thus becoming ­ according to President Chávez ­ a "real and true
historical recognition."

In one of the letter’s passages, President Chávez expressed that one
of the prophecies of Túpac Catari -who claimed before dying in 1781:
"I will be back and I will become millions"- is being fulfilled.
Venezuelan President pointed out that the Bolivian heroic did crowned
in the last election process, summons the Liberator’s thought.

In this sense, he put forward: "Evo, there is no doubt our happiness
is also big: Bolivar’s and Sucre’s country is starting a new and
definite battle for its dignity and sovereignty, and the big family of
the peoples find in your country a new reason to affirm the cause of
humanity and to deny the neoliberal fallacy of the history’s end. It
is a time to found Bolivia again; it is a new beginning for history."

He shared the idea expressed by Morales in his first statements after
his victory. According to Morales, the history of the South American
nation will be written based on equality, social justice, peace and
equity, turning it into a third millennium for the people, not for the
empire, in an effort to change the economic model that blocks the
development of the country and makes impossible to eliminate the
colonial State. This will likely solve the people’s problems and
defeat poverty, misery and exploitation.

Before finishing his message, President Chávez invited his new
Bolivian counterpart to listen again to "the inspired and inspiring
voice of the Liberator in his Speech before the Constituent Congress
of Bolivia: What does Bolivia mean? An unbridled love of liberty that,
when received by your enthusiasm, did not see anything comparable with
its courage. Again, it has been the courage of the Bolivian people
what has work for its new liberation: the same unbridled love will
guide you good in order to found a State being the expression of you all."

After inviting him to our country, President Chávez welcomed Morales
to "a new battle front for the justice and dignity of the peoples, the
Bolivarian and Sucre’s integration of South America," and wished him
success in the performance of his functions as the guide of the
fraternal nation.

Presidential Press / Translated by César Torres