that he organizes this great ample front with the COB, though he stated that he would participate on his own, I mean, he would run for Presidency and that could weaken us. Therefore the most important thing, the ideal would be that all of us join in only one front, and this one would indeed be the genuine expression of the Andean-Amazonian world, of the workers of the country, the miners, of those of us who always bet on the Constituent Assembly and the nationalization of the oil industry.  This would be our referent that could gather the highest number of votes in the elections. We hope we can get it. We are fighting for that. Thus we will be in a much better situation for the benefit of the country.

Ivan- Send a message to the first nations brothers of the north, for both Aymaras and Qhishwas who live there, and also for the Canadian natives who will read this interview translated into their respective languages.

Alejo.- As a Qhishwa from both the Cochabamba valley and the country, as a representative of the majoritarian nation of my country, I want to send fraternal greetings to all our friends living outside the country, to the people in other continents and from other nations such as Mexico, Canada, Guatemala because finally maybe we have the same blood.  Today we are in the middle of a reunification process with our roots. We are fighting because it is my opinion that capitalism and other systems from the other side have tried to bury what we really were, a world in abundance, and a world with identity, with solidarity. We have to recover those things. No society has reflected that yet, not even the socialists or the communists. Then I think that taking into account the fall of socialism in East Europe and the survival of some socialist countries that still exist such as Cuba, immersed in deep poverty, I think that our answer is the best: the recovery of our roots, our communitarian economy. Our strategy proposes this kind of community that doesn’t exist in the world anymore for it has disappeared. Then we invite all our friends to this struggle from wherever they are, and to continue our efforts until we achieve our goals.

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