July 29, 2008 2:08PM 

# Evo Morales’ Candid Disregard for the Law 

By [Juan Carlos Hidalgo](https://www.cato.org/people/juan-carlos-hidalgo) 

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“When some lawyer tells me ‘Evo, you’re making a judicial mistake; what you’re doing is illegal,’ well, I keep going even though it’s illegal. I then tell the lawyers: ‘If it’s illegal, go ahead and make it legal. That’s what you went to school for.’”

— Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, candidly [admitting](http://www.infolatam.com/entrada.jsp?id=9422) to violating the law while promoting a socialist revolution in his country \[In Spanish\]

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