President Evo Morales Denounces IMF, CNN & Old Order at United Nations
Channel: WrongKindofGreen
Date: 2013-03-06

Evo Morales Makes Very Clear What the Non-Profit Industrial Complex Will Not

Bolivian President Evo Morales held a UN press conference on February 20, 2013. He spoke eloquently about the privatization (robbery) verses nationalization of airports and natural resources by the International Monetary Fund. Morales also spoke to the issue of corporate power and corporate dominance of the UN highlighting the fact that transnational corporations had tried to block the declaration of the International Year of Quinoa. Inner City Press asked Morales his opinion on corporate involvement in UN programs on water, and on climate change. (Bank of America, for example, has been allowed to place its chairman on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's high level group on sustainable energy for all, despite BofA being the biggest funder of mountain top removal coal mining.)

Morales spoke of successes in Bolivia including the introduction of loans at six percent rather than thirty six percent and the increase in reserves and called for an investigation of the IMF for the money it stole from Latin America. Morales criticized Barack Obama, joking that the only reasons the USA doesn't have a coup d'etat is that there is no American ambassador inside the US.

Racism and Colonialism: 

Before all this, Morales called on a Latina reporter for the first question, but was stopped. It was demanded that he call on the UN Correspondents' Association, which has put its name on the corner front row seat. Morales shook his head and continued to call on who he'd called on.

"But it's tradition," Evo Morales was told, loudly. 

The first question, so hard won, led nowhere. Does UNCA work for Ban Ki-moon, as alleged, essentially the UN Censorship Alliance? It seems so. Morales also discussed how interventions are led by capitalism with a recent example being that of Libya.

Morales criticized the old order which was present, in the form of UNCA and its arrogant insistence that it is entitled to receive the first question - no matter what.

In 2012 UNCA attempted to have investigative press thrown out of the UN for questioning France, Sri Lanka and conflicts of interest. 

More:
http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2013/03/05/watch-at-un-evo-morales-denounces-imf-cnn-old-order-as-unca-demands-1st-question/