I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

Democracy is not perfect.

As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

The most compelling economic and geopolitical story in 2017 will almost certainly revolve around China. The world's most populous country bankrolled an economic boom with high levels of debt and leverage, with which the government is now forced to reckon.