(Bolivian Leader) Evo Morales attacks 'white supremacist ideology' in clash with Bolsonaro ally

[TomSea]

Evo Morales attacks 'white supremacist ideology' in clash with Bolsonaro ally
Tom Phillips

    Bolivia’s president stands up for indigenous rights
    Feud with Rodrigo Amorim reveals new political battleground

Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales has clashed with an ally of Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, highlighting the new ideological battlegrounds forming across Latin America as its leftist “pink tide” is consumed by a conservative counter-current.

Rodrigo Amorim, a recently elected congressman for Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal party, belittled an urban indigenous community that occupied a disused indigenous museum in northern Rio de Janeiro.

“If you like Indians, you should go to Bolivia – as well as being communist, it’s governed by an Indian,” Amorim told the Rio newspaper O Globo in an interview published on Friday.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/07/bolivia-president-evo-morales-bolsonaro-ally-brazil