Sound familiar? : "We're seeing an enormous contradiction between what [Bolivian eco-hero Evo Morales] says and what the reality is"

Evo Morales plays a double game on Bolivia's environment | Global development | guardian.co.uk

On the international stage, Morales is seen as a champion and one of the most vocal supporters of the environment. Last year, he hosted a climate change conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, and Bolivia was the only dissenting country against the deal reached at international climate change talks in Cancún, whose terms it said were equivalent to "ecocide and genocide".
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Look closer to home, however, and a different picture emerges. "We're seeing an enormous contradiction between what he says and what the reality is," says Maria Lohman of Somos Sur [We Are the South], a Bolivian group that seeks to offer an alternative to a "dehumanising and predator model".

"What we see here is the plundering [of our resources]," says Lohman. "Each year, 740,000 acres go up in flames [to clear land for agriculture]." And the same plundering goes on unpunished in the mining sector, she argues. "The biggest mines are in the hands of transnational corporations which are looting minerals with the most anti-environmental methods."

Despite its finger-pointing at the west for causing climate change through the irrational use of raw materials, Bolivia's economy thrives on the sale of natural gas.

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Morales was among the multitude of socialists, communists, and dictators who blasted capitalism in Copenhagen during their speeches. Some, such as Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe, blamed capitalism-caused global warming for deaths in their countries, deaths that were really caused by the countries' governments. Morales called for an end to the capitalist system to “save the planet.”

Just the mention of Morales’ name by Venezuela’s Socialist President Hugo Chavez elicited applause from delegates in Copenhagen. The leftist speeches were widely praised and appreciated. Chavez even received a standing ovation after his speech condemning capitalism and advocating a world socialist system. The powerful organization Socialist International recently detailed their influence and participation in the COP15 conference, so the leftist fervor is hardly a surprise.