Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military
Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military
AFP
September 03, 2012
Bolivia: Bolivia President Evo Morales accused the US military of commanding Colombia's armed forces and of having a military base in the South American country, in a televised speech Sunday.
Morales was responding angrily to recent US figures that indicate Bolivia and Peru have surpassed Colombia as the world's biggest cocaine producers.
"Sure, Colombia is being downplayed as a country that has a drug problem -- because there is a US military base, there are Americans commanding the Armed Forces of Colombia," the president said in a speech to coca growers unions in Lauca N, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) from La Paz.
Washington "wants to praise the country where they have accepted US military bases," he said. In fact, there is no longer a US base in Colombia, but US military involvement is massive.
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