Here is the whole speech, broken up into ~10 minute segments. If you listen carefully you can hear simultaneous English translation in the background. it gets better once I warm up.
After the video camera ran out of batteries, here's what President Morales touched upon.
We can inherit deserts, or a rich earth. People and social movements are gathered here together with shared vision. Earth has been telling us that things are not right. the earth is sick. the cause is capitalism and trade. Mother Earth is hurting. She is telling us to protect her: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, drought, misery, hunger. People are also being displaced and migrating - it is the ambition of the capitalists to bring us to destruction. Mother Earth will be able to exist without humanity. However, humanity cannot exist without Mother Earth. We must save Mother Earth from this site in Cochabamba. In 2010, we organize ourselves. If we are successful we will be able to enjoy, beaches, desert and birds. If we let fear win, if we continue to let capitalism abuse us, if we continue to ask who will pay? The armies will be invading us. the bombs will be hurting people. then we will have lost. We feed ourselves from the richness of the earth. If we don't fight we have to ask forgiveness. IF the mountains have recovered with their white blankets, then we will have won. If water is for the few, if the deserts take over, then we will have lost. To take our Mother Earth with much love. Everything must be for humanity and life. Our sons and daughters, they will be the judges of if we did enough. We have two roads: Pachamama or death. For life, humanity and mother earth, we must speak our truths.
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