An example of how George W Bush plotted his policy toward Bolivia in 2008, already posted here then:

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Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca (right) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg before the start of a meeting in La Paz on Feb 13. at the U.S. embassy.

FEATURES » MARCH 12, 2008
Recruiting Spies in the Peace Corps
Washington’s blunder in Bolivia strains relations with the Morales government

BY JEAN FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY (LA PAZ, BOLIVIA)

In February, allegations surfaced that the U.S. embassy in La Paz, located in western Bolivia, has been asking Peace Corps volunteers and Fulbright scholars to provide intelligence information to the U.S. embassy about foreign nationals in Bolivia.

“It flies in the face of what the Fulbright program is all about,” says John Alexander van Schaick, 23, a Fulbright scholar from Rutgers University, who says that last year, an embassy official instructed him to report on Venezuelans and Cubans living and working in Bolivia. “We’re supposed to be here to help with mutual understanding, not intelligence operations.”

This allegation, along with a similar incident involving Peace Corps volunteers, has again called into question the U.S. role in Bolivia, testing the thickness of the ice under its feet here in the heart of the Andes.

Anatomy of a scandal

On Nov. 5, 2007, van Schaick entered the U.S. embassy in La Paz for a routine orientation in preparation for his year-long fellowship in Bolivia. After meeting with various cultural affairs officials, the 2006 Rutgers grad met with Assistant Regional Security Adviser Vincent Cooper.

“He said that he was going to give me a ‘scaled-down’ version of the normal briefing given to U.S. embassy employees,” says van Schaick. According to the scholar, Cooper explained that although Fulbright participants are not U.S. government employees, the embassy likes to keep them “under its wing.”

The meeting consisted mainly of helpful tips for the newcomer–heed caution while on public transportation, steer clear of street protests and respond appropriately in medical emergencies.

“But the part that made my ears perk up was when he casually said, ‘Alex, if, when you are out in the field, should you encounter any Venezuelans or Cubans like field workers or doctors,’ that I should report to the U.S. embassy with their names and where they live,” van Schaick explains.

His experience wasn’t an isolated incident. On July 29, 2007, Cooper visited a group of 30 Peace Corps trainees in Bolivia to give a security talk that included similar instructions, this time with respect to Cubans.

More:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/3562/recruiting_spies_in_the_peace_corps

This is a representative event from that time which illuminates the kind of actions taken by the Embassy which resulted in eventually getting Philip Goldberg sent home. Of course he is still with the State Department, as always, hard at work, securing friends for the US government wherever he goes. His current Wikipedia:

Philip Seth Goldberg (born August 1, 1956)[1] is an American diplomat and government official who currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Colombia. He served previously as Ambassador to the Philippines and Bolivia, and Chief of the U.S. Mission in UN-administered Kosovo. He has served in Washington as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. From June 2009 until June 2010, he was Coordinator for Implementation of UNSC Resolution 1874 (Sanctions) on North Korea. He has also been Charge d'affaires, a.i. at the U.S. embassies in Chile and Cuba. Goldberg holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service.

On May 6, 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Goldberg to be the United States Ambassador to Colombia.[2] On August 1, 2019, the Senate confirmed his nomination by voice vote.[3] He presented his credentials to President Iván Duque Márquez on September 19, 2019.[4]

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Goldberg

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1. 2008 feels light years into the past. Trump has an ability

to warp time in ways, I never could have imagined.

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2. 2008 is much too modern for Republicans. GOP Latin America policy is stuck in 1973.

Gen. Augusto Pinochet grimaces as President Salvador Allende takes notes, with Defense Minister José Toha at right.

Mistakenly seen as a loyalist at the time, a few months later he overthrew Allende and had Toha brutally killed.

Allende and Toha had no idea the CIA had gotten to him.