Proceeding contribution from Diane Abbott (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 March 2009. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Latin America.
Latin America
As my hon. Friend has noted, President Evo Morales is the first indigenous president of Bolivia, in a society in which, in living memory, indigenous people were second-class citizens who were not allowed into certain parts of La Paz and not even allowed to meet a person of European origin and look them in the eye. Do not all the left-of-centre Latin American Governments—those led by Evo Morales in Bolivia, Lula in Brazil and Chavez in Venezuela—represent groups and ethnicities that have hitherto been marginalised in Latin American society? Is it not important that Her Majesty's Government look at these Governments not just through purely ideological eyes, but through those of the marginalised ethnic groups and indigenous people whom they represent and put ourselves on the right side of history in supporting the progressive change that they represent?
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- 2008-09
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- Biofuels Developing countries Development aid Diplomatic service Human rights Languages Forests Land use Ethnic groups EU external trade Foreign policy Foreign relations Poverty Mining Nature conservation Natural resources Politics and government Nationalisation Migrant workers Trade USA Visits abroad Venezuela Bolivia Latin America
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