Morales Promises ‘Radical’ Treatment for Oil Companies

Evo Morales, Bolivian president-elect, said he will stop oil companies’ “illegal” operations and promises to wage the economic equivalent of guerrilla warfare to eliminate poverty. “The only difference between Che Guevara and me is that he used arms,” Morales said in Madrid. “We don’t want to change things with bullets, but with votes.” He said, “We will be radical with oil companies that don’t obey Bolivian law, that don’t pay taxes and are smugglers,” he said.