Evo sees ruling classes in tears

"I'm happy about three things in my term so far. The structural changes, the social changes and the fact that I make the oligarchs cry," said a chuffed Evo Morales in an interview with Clarín on Sunday.

In the interview he repeated earlier statements that he might block a trade deal between the EU and the Andean Community, also made up of Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. His threat is a response to the EU's recently approved Return Directive as I discussed in a recent Lat-Am Watch column.

Asked whether he would allow US ambassador Goldberg to visit the presidential palace when he returned from Washington after being summoned there amid protests in Bolivia over US presence, Morales answered; "Only two words. I am and will die an anti-imperialist. One thing is guaranteeing private property, we all have it, another thing is capitalism, neo-liberalism, globalisation."

Here are the videos from the Clarín interview by journalist Pablo Stefanoni