Bolivia denounces Argentina's Macri for munitions and tear gas shipped to aid 2019 coup

[peppertree]

Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta announced that evidence has emerged that former Argentine President Mauricio Macri - a close Trump ally - aided Bolivia's 2019 coup with a sizable shipment of crowd control munitions and tear gas.

Over 800 protesters were injured and at least 33 were killed by security forces in the aftermath of the November 10, 2019, coup - which deposed President Evo Morales.

"We have access to a document that shows that the Macri government in Argentina provided material so that social protest could be repressed, and the de facto government of (Jeanine) Áñez could be consolidated," Foreign Minister Mayta declared.

The document - a letter dated November 13, 2019, in which Bolivian Air Force General Jorge Terceros thanks Macri's ambassador, Normando Álvarez García, for his "collaboration" - offers details on the shipment - which arrived in an Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules plane and included 40,000 AT-12/70 crowd control cartridges; 18 Mk-9 tear gas spray canisters; and 121 CN, CS, and HC gas grenades.

This follows news on June 11th that former right-wing Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno had similarly shipped over 8,000 munitions as well as tear gas on November 16, 2019 - three days after the Macri shipment.

Terceros, like Áñez and several ministers and generals who took part in her 2019-20 regime, have been arrested since President Luis Arce - a close ally of former President Morales - was inaugurated last November following a landslide election victory.

Ambassador Álvarez García, however, was later named labor minister for Argentina's Jujuy Province by Governor Gerardo Morales - a Macri ally who has since distanced himself from the unpopular former president.

Former First Daughter Ivanka Trump was earlier revealed to have met with Bolivian coup leader and far-right figure Luis "Macho" Camacho during a September 2019 visit to Jujuy Province.

At: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.eldestapeweb.com/politica/venta-de-armas-a-bolivia/fuerte-denuncia-de-bolivia-macri-aporto-armas-para-apoyar-a-la-dictadura-de-anez-20217820480

Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta holding the 2019 letter detailing material support from former right-wing Argentine President Mauricio Macri to Bolivia's dictatorship in the violent days after the 2019 coup.

Macri, a close Trump ally, was quick to recognize the Jeanine Áñez dictatorship - though both he and his surrogates had denied that their support for Áñez went beyond recognition.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Absolutely vile! While reading that Ecuador's Lenn Moreno followed Macri's move 3 days later,

it struck me that it sounded coordinated from Trump's administration. The last paragraph, which states Ivanka Trump met the coup leader, fascist creepoid Luis "Macho" Camacho, (sounds like a wrestling cretin) two months earlier absolutely nailed it, of course.

Loathsome.

Here's a thread posted in 2007 about George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and their slick move to go behind the back of Bolivia's sitting President to his Air Force Generals and spirit away Bolivia's missiles once it was determined Evo Morales was going to win the election by a landslide after polls indicated he was far ahead of the right-wing candidate. Even before the beginning of Morales' presidency they were screwing him over:

How many DU'ers recall that Bush's Defense Department got to Bolivia's military
before Evo Morales could be sworn in, and refuse their sneaky removal of Bolivia's own missiles? Here's a report some of us discussed in 2006:

The Miami Herald
Jan. 19, 2006
Probe of destroyed missiles vowed

President-elect Evo Morales vowed to open a probe into the destruction of 28 of Bolivia's missiles by the United States and Bolivian Army officials.

BY CARLOS VALDES
Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia - President-elect Evo Morales vowed on Wednesday to launch a thorough investigation into allegations that top military officials worked in tandem with the United States to destroy 28 Chinese shoulder-launched missiles owned by the Bolivian Army.

The decision to send the missiles to the United States for destruction last year prompted caretaker President Eduardo Rodríguez to fire Army chief Gen. Marcelo Antezana on Tuesday, and led to the resignation of Defense Minister Gonzalo Méndez.

It also came at a sensitive time for the United States, which is trying to improve strained relations with the leftist Morales, an open critic of American policies.

Morales said the investigation would be ''profound'' and that any evidence of wrongdoing would be met with ``drastic punishment.''

A State Department spokesman has said Bolivia requested U.S. help in removing the deteriorating Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles.

Antezana appeared on Bolivian television, saying Rodríguez made a ''bad interpretation'' of his role in the October destruction of the missiles, which led to accusations of treason by Morales, who was then campaigning for the presidency.

At the time, Morales revealed the destruction of the weapons and said the move left Bolivia with virtually no air defenses.
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http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/bolivia/missiles.htm

One more article at:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2716174&mesg_id=2717002

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Thank you, so much, peppertree, for finding this information. Very few US Americans will know about it, and right-wingers would approve of it, even though it's filthy meddling in the affairs of a sovereign nation.

So, so glad to find out this happened.