[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Towards an 'axis of good'
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Towards an 'axis of good'
Monday 02 January 2006, 3:08 Makka Time, 0:08 GMT
Evo Morales with his old friend Fidel Castro in Cuba
Evo Morales, the president-elect of Bolivia, will travel to Venezuela this
week, fresh from a visit to Cuba. But he would have been happy to travel to the
US - except that Washington did not invite him, his spokesman said.
The Bolivian leader has good relations with Fidel Castro, in Cuba, and Hugo
Chavez, in Venezuela, who are both critics of George W Bush's regime in the US.
However, Morales is not opposed to developing ties with the United States, Alex
Contreras said on Saturday.
Morales, who will also fly to Europe this week, would have gone to Washington
as well if he had been asked, Contreras said. His close ties with his Latin
peers "do not aim at an axis of evil; rather, to an axis of good", the
spokesman said.
"The president-elect is prepared to talk [to US officials] as long as
diplomatic conditions are different from what they have been before," Contreras
said.
If that doesn't happen, "unfortunately, relations with the United States can
deteriorate badly", he said.
Officials in Washington have been fretting about the relationship between
Presidents Morales, Chavez and Castro, which they fear as part of a
Latin-American tilt to the left. They are also worried about Morales's
opposition to US-led efforts to eradicate coca cultivation in his country. Coca
has traditional uses among Indians, not just the cocaine production that the US
says it wants to stop.
Morales, a coca grower and former street protest leader who was elected
president last month, says that he supports coca growing but opposes cocaine
trafficking.
Morales plans to spend only about six hours in before starting a tour of Spain,
France and Belgium before moving on to South Africa, China and Brazil,
Contreras said.
Free eye operations
He said that Chavez has already offered aid to the Bolivian government,
including a programme to provide identity documents to people in Bolivia's
rural areas. Chavez "has offered to make available to Bolivia all the
technology and human resources for such a plan", Contreras said.
Morales, who takes office on 22 January, was a frequent visitor of Castro and
Chavez before being elected.
During his visit to Havana, Castro called his election victory historic and the
two leaders said that co-operation between their countries will increase. Cuba
also plans to offer free eye operations to up to 50,000 poor Bolivians needing
them.
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