Evo Morales responds to John Kerry: Never Again Will We Be Your Backyard

[Judi Lynn]

75. The US has done its major dealing with the racist, secessionist white supremicists in Santa Cruz,

the European descended wealthy landowners, that's what.

Bolivia currently has no relationship with the U.S.

Haven't you taken the time to follow US relations with Bolivia? Yet you still have time to try to tell DU'ers the US has been benevolent to Bolivia? Is that what has happened?

The money goes to further US interests in Bolivia and that does NOT include the poor, the suffering, the hungry, uneducated, helpless indigenous majority.

The US started trying to screw Morales even before he was elected. The US went behind the back of the previous President, to the higher officers in the Bolivian military who assisted the US in spriting out their shoulder-mounted missiles, wiping out their arsenal, taking their missiles to Texas before Morales who was leading by far in the polls could get elected.

When the sitting Bolivian President learned what had happened those officials were canned on the spot, pitched the hell out of their jobs, and there was real hell to pay. Morales learned this sabotage had been arranged to clean out some powerful weapons in the military before he could take power.

During his first term, a Bolivian tv camera team followed the US ambassador Philip Goldberg to a late night meeting, AFTER MIDNIGHT with the racist, secessionist leaders from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It was all captured on video.

A new Peace Corps worker, a Fulbright Scholar arrived in Bolvia, only to be counseled by the American Embassy that he was expected to spy on Cuban health workers, and Venezuelan personel in Bolivia, and to report back to the embassy on their activities and addresses, etc. He protested, he made a public statement, he went completely public with his deep sense of outrage, and the ambassador apologized for it, and the Bolivian President was once again sick and furious.

There are tons of examples of filthy behavior rolled out just during Morales' Presidency, but the history of US meddling, and manipulation of events in Bolvia goes back a hell of a long way.

For instance, Hugo Banzer. This small description of this monster was written before he was brought back to be President in the 1990's, only to privatize Bolivia's water, sell it to a subsidiary of the Bechtel Company from the US, George H W Bush's own connection, and this company hiked the price so high for the citizens budgets many could no longer even afford the water they had used for years. The people protested, as in Cochabamba, marched in the streets, and Banzer sent a military sharp shooter out to put the fear of God into them. This part was not included in the small paragraph I am posting below, but it's damned easy to locate in any search, even photos of the sharp-shooter croucning in the street.

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

Do yourself the honor of taking time to learn the history of US actions and the aftermath in Latin America and the
Caribbean first before far more time has been wasted.