- Bolivian President Evo Morales
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, recently got himself into trouble by saying that the reason there are so many gay and lesbian people in developed countries is because of hormones given to chickens.
They always say that it’s harder to discriminate against gays and lesbians when you know some. That’s certainly true in Morales’ case.
Morales apologized for his statement this week after he found out that not only are there LGBT people in Bolivia, according to Los Tiempos, but some of them work in his own official residence and office, El Palacio.
The article from the Cochabamba, Bolivia newspaper is entitled “Evo pide perdón a los gays y dice que los homosexuales también trabajan en Palacio,” which means, “Evo asks pardon from the gays and says that homosexuals also work in the Palace.”
Really? Where and when did Morales ever make these comments? I’ve seen the transcript of what he said and he never mentioned homosexuality.
Chicken hormones are banned in the US – maybe, just maybe, there’s some truth to Morales’ suggestion that they can impact human hormones and health.
He may want to reconsider his own diet, from the looks of that picture.
So what’s the big deal? Jeez…he’s dressed like a drag queen.
Evo Morales never mentioned sexuality.
Also, do some research on Bolivia’s constitution irt the LGBT community.
Morales is under attack by the corporate media, in part of an ideological war against those like Morales who actually champion LGBT rights, environmental issues, tackling social problems etc. It’s precisely because Morales believes in equal rights for ALL that he is the victim of these attacks. Please correct the article after you have learned more, thanks.
Morales plays football almost every sunday – that’s foot-ball,(or as the latinos call it fútbol, the germans, fussball) with balls and feet, as the rest of the world understands it and not what you call Football and rest of the world calls Rugby, where you throw it – and he’s actually pretty damn fit.He’s just stocky as opposed to thin.
His comment about homosexuality, which some at the climate conference claim to have witnessed, was stupid and he has rightly apologised.His womens’ rights legislation will have a massive impact in the taming of Bolivian machismo in the coming decades, as well as the ubiquitous homophobia that abounds in latin america and thank god, not least for my daughter, who will grow up as a Bolivian woman.
The last comment about the right wing war on Morales and the MAS is correct.I lived in Bolivia and witnessed their attempts in league with the US State Dept to effect a civil war to split the country to stop the ‘rot’ of democratic socialism the 2005 MAS electoral victory introduced into Bolivian life.The majority of the private media outletswere a key element to this, as the people there understood, with crowds in Cochabamba eventually even attacking TV channel Unitel’s offices there (their reporting was shockingly dishonest), much as we are reading how crowds of poor Thais have attacked their own Channel 3 offices in Bangkok.One can but assume the same issues are at play there as well.The onlt sad thing is that the Thais don’t have a decent President like Morales to stand up for their needs against those of the rich.
Incidentally, the ‘patriotic’ extreme rightwing conservative and neo-fascist youth groups which the very same media tried to make into folk heroes in Santa Cruz and the east of Bolivia had nothing but hatred for the dissipation of their virile Catholic, hispanic stock by miscegenation and mingling with the likes of blacks, gays, Jews, Indians and, their trojan horse, liberalism.
One of their leaders, Chiqui Martinez, said exactly this in a friendly TV interview some years back.Their enemy was ‘the global liberal hegemony’.
To the people questioning the reporting, David is exactly right. It was reported in Los Tiempos and he linked to it. his translation is correct. and by the way I am from Cochabamba and this is what our newspaper reported.
It’s the real thing — Bolivia thumbs its nose at corporate America:
https://www.cafepress.com/ccolla
I live in Bolivia and watched Evo make his comments from a prepared speech, which is unusual for him. The article’s facts are correct. One doesn’t have to defend Evo for everything. He’s not perfect.
Queens in the palace! Who woulda thunk it?