Bolivian Minister Alerts on US Interventionism
Bolivian Minister Alerts on US Interventionism
La Paz, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) The geopolitical and geo-economic importance of Bolivia are two essential factors when analyzing US attempts to overthrow the government of President Evo Morales, asserted the Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana.
According to Quintanta in the Andean nation there is another factor that favors Washington to execute its interventionist strategies, like in other Latin American countries: the existence of a creole elite ready to submit itself to its plans.
When delivering a lecture on Tuesday in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the minister recalled that Bolivia has a wide variety of strategic natural resources such as natural gas, lithium and minerals.
He noted that the country has a political sector that supports the meddling and interference in the internal affairs of other States and resorts to strategies going from the invisibility of that intervention, to the deceive to the public opinion under a cloak of apparent impartiality and objectivity.
During his presentation, he proved with documents how opposition senator, Oscar Ortiz, fierce defender of foreign interference, receives funding from different NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) in the United States.
More:
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=4573&SEO=bolivian-minister-alerts-on-us-interventionism
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Mighty white of Oscar Ortiz, in a wildly racist, yet mostly indigenous country.
The indigenous population wasn't allowed to walk on sidewalks with European
descended people, or vote, until after the revolution of 1952. No bed of roses
for non-European descendants in Bolivia, where they are called "llama abortions"
by the "whites." Called that in their own country, in addition to being terrorized,
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overthrowing Presidents there for ages, at the grotesque expense of the largely indigenous population, which has suffered desperately under the heel of racist fascists throughout. These people still have their shock troupers occasionally going on their terror trips into indigenous neighborhoods and beating the holy hell out of them with clubs with embedded barbed wire, or burning them down, or waylaying them on the road, and beating them to a pulp, they murder them, they have forced them to crawl on their knees when they decide to humiliate them, and this is only the tip of the iceberg.
The US ambassador was meeting with these filthy dirtbags in Santa Cruz after hours, was followed by a tv news crew, that's HOW people found out, has directed various plots and campaigns against Evo Morales, even a massacre of Bolivian farmers trying to walk across a small river, waiting for them on the bed of a big truck, and mowing them down as they emerged from the river, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
"Isoliating your country?" Really? The president himself, earlier in his life, was beaten severely by these white racists, and left to die on a mountain road, and would have, had someone not found him first.
The Crescent area of Bolivia contains a great deal of mineral wealth, agriculture, oil, gas, and of course it is controlled by the European descended. Some of them came from Croatia immediately after the Second World War. This group uses a symbol similar to a Nazi Swastika as its own, and celebrates its hatred for the Indigenous. They are the ones the US Ambassador has held secret meetings with, off the record, after hours, etc., before Bolivia's government, under the indigenous President, sent his ugly ass packing to the U.S.
The people in that area have attempted to separate from Bolivia, taking the country's wealth with them, leaving the indigenous with only the dry arid mountainous areas, after stealing the only part of the country which has valuable resources. They have fought long and hard to be able to highjack and steal Bolivia's natural wealth. They were counseled in this by the US Ambassador before he was asked to leave. Any country would have done the same, clearly.
A young man who had just become a Peace Corps volunteer told the press that he had just arrived in Bolivia, and was told by the US embassy they wanted him to spy on Cuban and Venezuelan doctors doing business in Bolivia, running clinics, treating citizens, told to send any and all information he could get on them to the embassy. He was very angry and told the media he joined the Peace Corps to do things OTHER than spying on people.
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From a post here in 2008:
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Bolivian Racism Runs Amok in Sucre
Racism Run Amok
On Saturday May 24th President Evo Morales was scheduled to visit the city of Sucre on the commemoration of the 199th anniversary of Latin America’s first steps of independence from Spain, General Sucre's "first shout of liberty (May 25, 1809)." The President planned on delivering ambulances for Chuquisaca’s rural communities and to announce development projects for the region, all actions typical of what Presidents do here on such dates. The events were to take place in the “Patriotic” Stadium, surrounded by and under the protection of indigenous people from different parts of the province.
However, the night before the event, organized groups antagonistic to Morales began to provoke disturbances around the stadium and stoned a house where a fundraising dinner was taking place for a MAS candidate for Governor, Walter Valda.
Then on Saturday, the day of the anniversary, the anti-Morales violence went into racist overdrive. Mobs armed with sticks and dynamites confronted the police and military. The government retreated the public's armed forces, cancelled all scheduled parades (of the military and police), and President Morales’ visit.
With the police and military presence gone, the indigenous peasants who had come to see the President were left face-to-face with armed civilians from urban Sucre, among them university students of the public University of San Francisco Xavier. More than two dozen indigenous peasants were beaten and captured, their few possessions were taken away and they were forced to walk for three miles and then kneel shirtless in front of Sucre’s House of Liberty. Sucre mobs humiliated their indigenous captives in a repeat of a ritual from the most brutal pages of colonialism. Under threat of violence, and half naked in a public square the captives were forced to apologize for the offense of coming to the city to receive President Morales. "Llamas, ask forgiveness," the mob ordered. Among the captives was the mayor of the rural town of Mojocoya.
Video footage of the abuse can be seen here.*
*This is the link:
Journalists in Sucre who bore witness to the racism unleashed also became targets. Yesterday, Red Erbol, a prominent association of radios and various institutions of communication denounced the attack of Red Erbol affiliated journalist María Elena Paco Durán of ACLO. Ms. Durán was attacked and insulted, prevented from carrying out her work as a reporter. According to Ms. Durán, at one point, the aggressors threatened to drench her with alcohol and set her on fire.
The Campesino Federation of Chuquisaca demanded the resignation of Jaime Barrón, Vice-Chancellor of the University, and of the President of Sucre's Interinstitutional Committee, a civic group that has been a leading force in anti-Morales protests. Threatening to block roads and close off valves of gas pipelines (if Barrón didn't resign), the Campesino Federation accused Barrón of promoting violence and racism.
Leaders of the Inter-institutional Committee, though denying any role in the violence inflicted upon the campesinos, have pleaded forgiveness for the degrading act committed in front of the House of Liberty.
http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/2008/05/bolivian-racism-runs-amok-in-sucre.html
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There have been volumns of articles posted at DU since 2002, or so. Bolivia has been UNABLE to "isolate" from the US, which still dominates it. Bolivia is very connected to ALL of the rest of the world.
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Home » Columns » View From...April 2006 • Issue 388
The second founding of Bolivia
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Long before the expulsion of Evo, his people, the indigenous, had been expelled from the official nation. They were not sons of Bolivia; they were merely its labour force. Until just over 50 years ago, the indians could neither vote nor even walk on the sidewalk in cities.
More:
http://www.newint.org/columns/viewfrom/2006/04/01/boliv... /
Eduardo Galeano is the author of The Open Veins of Latin America and Memories of Fire.
The year was 1952 when there was a revolution, and the indigenous citizens were allowed for the first time to walk on the same sidewalk with the European descended people living in their country.
More:
https://newint.org/columns/viewfrom/2006/04/01/bolivia/
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COLONEL HUGO BANZER
President of Bolivia
In 1970, in Bolivia, when then-President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US interests, and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire. The coup to overthrow Torres, led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington. When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, US Air Force radio was placed at their disposal. Once in power, Banzer began a reign of terror. Schools were shut down as hotbeds of political subversive activity. Within two years, 2,000 people were arrested and tortured without trial. As in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the native Indians were ordered off their land and deprived of tribal identity. Tens-of-thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians, with a goal of creating a white Bolivia. When Catholic clergy tried to aid the Indians, the regime, with CIA help, launched terrorist attacks against them, and this "Banzer Plan" became a model for similar anti-Catholic actions throughout Latin America.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
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Blatant, violent racism in Bolivia
Monday, May 26, 2008
blatant, violent racism in bolivia
This weekend, as the city of Sucre approached the 199th anniversary of its decisive role in Bolivian independence from Spain, President Evo Morales was scheduled to arrive for an event. Many of his supporters from the campo (countryside) came to the city to receive him. They were met with some of the most blatant and obscene acts of racism Bolivia has seen in modern times.
The Inter-institutional Committee - a self-appointed group of opposition leaders in Sucre who were instrumental in orchestrating the violence there around the constitutional assembly in December - led protests against Evo coming. The rector of the public university there is the leader of this group.
It is also worth noting that Cochabamba Prefect (governor) Manfred Reyes Villa made a point of being there, marching alongside Inter-Institutional Committee leaders.
University students and other protesters attacked campesinos, and beat them, and took a group of them and made them march several kilometers to the town center, stripped off their shirts, and made them kneel in the main plaza and sing pro-Sucre slogans and ask forgiveness for coming to see President Morales.
I am amazed at how little coverage this is getting outside Bolivia. Today on Google, the only news sites I can find covering it are in Cuba. For those who read Spanish, some information is available here.
Some of the public leaders have expressed regret today at the way things "got out of control." But they still blame it on Morales himself. Morales ultimately canceled his trip. But he had also asked military and police to stay away from the marches there. Organizers now say he abandoned the city. But in Sucre and elsewhere, it has been made clear that one constant goal of protesters is to provoke violence on the part of police and soldiers so that they can then label Morales an authoritarian and a murderer.
Some on the left are now saying that Morales should
begin using the police and military more. He has been loathe to allow his government to be sucked into violent confrontations, but some critics now say that this is allowing his opponents to take advantage of him, and that poor and indigenous groups pay the price.
The racism of some Bolivians is overwhelming, and it is being manipulated by political interests who seem hellbent on forcing a larger confrontation with the government. Morales has shown impressive restraint regarding the use of state violence. Unfortunately, he has also shown little ability to otherwise deal with the kinds of scenes witnessed in Sucre this weekend.
Posted by Dan at 1:00 PM
http://danmoriarty.blogspot.com/2008/05/blatant-violent-racism-in-bolivia.html
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Racism, Domination and Revolution in Bolivia
Adolfo Gilly September 26, 2008
Mexico - “The problem in Bolivia is that the country is undergoing a process of reforms, without abandoning the democratic framework, but both the opposition and the government act as if they were facing a revolution,” stated Marco Aurelio García, a close advisor to Lula in international affairs, according to an article by José Natanson in the newspaper Pagina 12.
Allowing myself to not take this declaration literally, but instead in an ironic sense, Marco Aurelio García, an intelligent and well-informed man, can’t help but realize that if the two protagonists of the Bolivian confrontation believe that they are dealing with a revolution, this belief is the best confirmation that, in effect, it is. The Vice President, Álvaro García Linera, on the other hand, has said that what is happening is “an increase in elites, an increase in rights, and a redistribution of wealth. This, in Bolivia, is a revolution.”
He is right: in Bolivia this alone would already be a revolution like the one in Nicaragua in 1979. But what is happening is something much deeper and that goes much further than the elites, politics, and the economy. This is a questioning of the means of the historical domination by those elites, old and new. It comes from very far below, it is moved by an ancient fury, and it will not be stopped by the massacres at the hands of fascist groups nor by the fragile government agreements with the prefects of the Media Luna.
The massacre in Pando, with more than 30 campesinos assassinated in cold blood by the hit men of the white minority, and the horrific scenes of humiliation, pain and punishment of the indigenous people in the public plaza of Sucre and in the streets of Santa Cruz de la Sierra at the hands of gangs of fascist youth, are telling in that this white minority knows exactly what game it is playing: its power is not negotiable, its lands are untouchable, its right to despotic rule resides in skin color not in the votes of citizens. The white minority is not willing to, in a sense, “extend” said despotic right, supported also by poor white groups whose only “property” is their skin color that separates them from the Indians. They are much less willing to redistribute property or wealth.
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/09/racism-domination-and-revolution-in.html
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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal US Gave Millions to Bolivian Separatists
14:02 19.02.2016
The US gave millions of dollars to a separatist movement in Bolivia and knew of attacks planned by militant opposition groups, according to documents from 2006-2009 obtained by WikiLeaks.
Documents obtained by WikiLeaks which date back to 2006 reveal that the US was in contact with Bolivian opposition groups and gave millions of dollars to a separatist movement, the Prensa Latina news agency reported on Thursday.
The documents were examined by Norwegian researcher Eirik Vold, who discovered that between 2006 and 2009 the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave four million dollars to a separatist movement in the Media Luna (Half Moon) region of Bolivia, Prensa Latina wrote.
The Media Luna is a group of four departments, Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, and Tarija, in the east of Bolivia, where there were clashes in 2008 between government supporters and opposition groups who wanted control of local resources.
"The US had full knowledge of opposition groups' terrorist plans, and yet did not denounce them," Eirik Vold told Prensa Latina, adding that the US had prior knowledge of a planned attack on a natural gas pipeline, which resulted in a ten percent decrease in Bolivia's in gas exports to Brazil.
Vold said the cables show that Washington also believed that the murder of President Evo Morales was "likely," and that the US was aware of the possibility of a coup d'etat but did not warn the Bolivian government in La Paz.
The Norwegian, who presented his investigations to the press in La Paz on Thursday, said that WikiLeaks has obtained more than 14,000 US documents about the Bolivian president, which show the extent to which Washington is determined to maintain its hegemony in the region.
The cables "give an understanding of the importance of Bolivia, a country rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources, to American strategy," Vold said.
http://sptnkne.ws/aESw
(Short article, no more at link.)
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You are unbelievably kind.
