Why do (or don ) you support President Evo Morales and Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa?
Don Federico and his family (Photo: Alex van Schaick)Don Federico is President of the Organización Territorial de Base, a sub-municipal administrative unit, in Villa Mexico, a migrant neighborhood in Cochabamba’s impoverished southern zone. He is also President of the local retired peoples’ association. He is 67 years old and was born in an indigenous-campesino family in the North of PotosÃ. He worked as a miner in Oruro in the mid 1970s, an experience that he called his “school” of class consciousness and inspired to become a socialist militant. This government is doing what no government has done before. It’s been two and a half years, and they have eliminated our national debt that previous governments had. It’s gone down a ton. Now, the opportunities, the benefits, for the people: education is a top priority, health is a top priority. When have we the campesinos had the right to healthcare, when have we had free health clinics? With what government? What government has been preoccu
