In Latin America, Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales was in Caracas to meet with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Tuesday.

• Evo Morales: “We are in a new age, we are in a new millennium, a millennium for the people and not for the empire. A millennium to resolve social problems, economic problems. This is not only in Bolivia but Fidel in Cuba, Hugo in Venezuela continue the triumphs of social movements of the left-wing political parties in the national majorities.”

Morales will take office on January 22nd with the most popular support of any Bolivian president in decades. He stopped in Venezuela as part of an inaugural seven-country tour. The tour does not include the United States, where Morales says he has yet to be invited.