Monbiot defends Morales, Bush says he's undemocratic

Reuters reports Bush saying that democracy is eroding in Venezuela and Bolivia.

Meanwhile, Guardian journalist George Monbiot rips a hole into attacks on Morales for nationalizing oil:

So on the one hand you have a man (Morales) who has kept his promises by regaining control over the money from the hydrocarbon industry, in order to use it to help the poor. On the other you have a man (Derby, president of Chad) who has broken his promises by regaining control over the money from the hydrocarbon industry, in order to buy guns. The first man is vilified as irresponsible, childish and capricious. The second man is left to get on with it. Why? Well Deby’s actions don’t hurt the oil companies. Morales’s do. When Blair and Rice and the Times and all the other apologists for undemocratic power say “the people”, they mean the corporations. The reason they hate Morales is that when he says “the people” he means the people.

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