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Related: About this forumBolivia's Morales threatens to close US embassy
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPDalLd85KwSVp8VTWQiyKOR6mKQ?docId=CNG.24ab75128c6e39725df9792dd84d5724.3b1(AFP) Mar 18, 2012
LA PAZ Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales warned in comments published Sunday that he would close the US embassy in La Paz if Washington continued interfering in his country's domestic affairs.
Morales, who has faced a proliferation of protests in recent weeks over a variety of issues, has accused the United States of fueling the unrest against his government.
"If the US embassy continues bothering Bolivia, as it is doing now, then it is best we close the United States embassy in Bolivia because we are anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberals," the state-run ABI news agency quoted Morales as saying.
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The two countries have not exchanged ambassadors since 2008, when Morales expelled US ambassador Philip Goldberg and officials of the US Drug Enforcement Administration after accusing them of taking part in a right-wing conspiracy against him.
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Bolivia's Morales threatens to close US embassy (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Jul 2013
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He's running out of US institutions to throw out but the US would just close their embassy
Bacchus4.0
Jul 2013
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Zorro
(15,749 posts)1. Sounds as if Evo is looking for some special attention
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)3. He's running out of US institutions to throw out but the US would just close their embassy
and then what? I suppose if Latin American leaders are so distressed that they can band together and all throw out US embassies. That would be something. I don't see it happening though.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)4. Evo would miss the US boogeyman if he closed the embassy
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)2. hehehe
the chickens come home to roost...
I believe the US is an imperialistic nation as well, maybe we should move there