BOLIVIA: The Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing - A Bad Time for "Innocent Mistakes"

[magbana]

Comment from Machetera:

A couple of years ago on Cuban TV there was a cartoon that mocked the U.S. transition planned for Cuba. It showed a U.S. soldier guarding the door of a school while a line of children passed by, hoping to enter. As they passed, he pointed to them one by one, saying "You, and you, and you," and when the black kid came, "not you." Why does that occur to Machetera now? Oh, no particular reason.


A Bad Time for "Innocent Mistakes"

Roberto Bardini - Tinku

Translation: Machetera

Last June 28th, the 20 year old U.S. citizen Donna Thi, from Miami, was detained at the airport in La Paz, for trying to bring in five hundred 45-caliber bullets which she'd declared as "cheese" to customs. Waiting for her in the terminal was the wife of Colonel James Campbell, the head of the military section at the U.S. embassy in Bolivia.

The North American Ambassador, Philip Goldberg, intervened immediately to obtain the woman's release and said that it was all "an innocent mistake." The ammunition, he said, was meant for "sport and entertainment."

Bolivia's Director of Migration, Magaly Zegarra, did not hold the same opinion as the Ambassador. According to her, "the fact that a North American citizen, related to the embassy, is carrying ammunition on a North American aircraft coming from Miami, a city where terrorists from all over Latin America are protected by the government, especially their teacher, as Posada is called by the terrorists, and make a mockery of all mechanisms, is questionable."

FULL ARTICLE:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/the-ambassador-of-ethnic-cleansing/#more-217

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[Judi Lynn]

1. I've always been sick that we couldn't find out more about that woman sneaking in so much ammunition

while calling it "cheese." It wasn't people are likely to overlook that she is connected to the Embassy, either.

Looking forward to reading this information later this evening. This looks like an important bunch of information.

Thanks so much for posting this here, as we are absolutely hungry for all the REAL information we can get, which you have to know is almost impossible to find through the media news blackout.

What a shame the media becomes controlled by so few, and they're all connected to right-wing. Jesus.

So Branco Marinkovic is supported by connections to big oil, too! Well, well, well. He's got all kinds of connections, doesn't he? All that and the paramilitary, too.

Don't forget he went on a "hunger strike," over the new constitution, I believe, and was discovered, by Bolivian people, to be the happy late night recipient, along with his fellow beleagured starving "hunger strikers" of visits from messengers bearing in packages of FRIED CHICKEN to console them in their hours of deprivation. From what I read, that discovery was the object of a lot of LOUD derision for quite a while afterward.

Will be back to read this new article when it's possible to concentrate better. Thank you for this needed information.