Morales - In Defense of Humanity

Speech delivered by Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales in Spanish at the conference "En Defensa de la Humanidad" (In Defense of Humanity), held at the Siqueiros Cultural Polyforum in Mexico City on October 24, 2003.

The conference itself has a website at http://www.defensahumanidad.org/ which contains the text of its final declaration. This declaration is also available in a different format here.

SourceWatch Resources

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Additional Notes

 * Later, during the 2003 Ibero-American Presidential Summit, Evo Morales, Bolivian congressman and coca farmer leader, spoke with Kofi Annan. The United Nations leader invited Morales to participate in an indigenous rights conference in New York City. However, Morales was unable to attend the meeting due to the fact that the US embassy in Bolivia refused to grant him a visa for the trip.