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A spade is a spade!
''We have served as a model,'' Bachelet said.
Bolivia's Evo Morales ranted against Washington ''imperialism'' and blamed diplomats for their role in his domestic crisis.
''President Bush sent me a letter that said, I quote, that if I am not a friend, I am an enemy,'' Morales said Tuesday night. ``I am a friend of the American people. I don't care if I am a friend of the president.''
Dominican President Leonel Fernández insisted that presidents did not come to wag an accusing finger at their northern neighbor, but that it is inconceivable that the United States would spend far more to bail out tycoons than lift millions from poverty.
It would cost some $50 billion a year to lift nations from misery, he said. In seven years, that would not even amount to half of what it would cost to rescue American financial institutions.
''We don't want to conceive of the idea that the rescue of the dignity of the world's poor does not have the same priority or the same urgency of saving the institutions that operate the most powerful financial center in the world,'' Fernández said. ``We need an international financial plan that is as urgent and as bold as the one to save Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and American International Group.''
