Morales says exploitation of Bolivia is over

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For more than 500 years our natural resources have been pillaged and our primary goods exported. This has to be ended now, Morales, who won December elections promising to use the country's natural resources to help the poor majority, told a news conference in Vienna.

Morales and fellow left-wing Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez compose the awkward squad at the European Union-Latin American summit on trade, investment and other issues.

The EU is the biggest investor in Latin America with major interests worth more than $300 billion in sectors from energy and telecommunications to banking.

Other Latin American leaders showed irritation at what Mexico's President Vicente Fox called a sterile discussion, or ideological discussion -- a clear reference to the anti-imperialist line of Morales and Chavez.
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This kind of talk, let alone his actions, is really pissing off the free wheeling, free marketing, privatizing, globalizing capitalists. Personally, I see Morales as a hero.