Bolivia declares flood emergency

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: BBC

Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a national disaster as his government tries to cope with the aftermath of widespread flooding.

Floods caused by weeks of rain have left 51 dead in the eastern lowlands.

Mr Morales on Monday toured the worst-hit province, Beni, where thousands of people have had to leave their homes amid rising floodwaters.

It is the second year in a row that Bolivia has seen such floods, which officials blame on climate change.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7241528.stm

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Flooding in city of Trinidad

[Peace Patriot]

1. Meanwhile, the Bush Junta is spending millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars

from USAID-NED and covert budgets, on rightwing groups in Bolivia, who want to split the oil/gas-rich rural provinces off from the central government of Bolivia's first indigenous president (Morales), to deny benefit of those resources to Bolivia's huge population of displaced peasant farmers, who were shunted off the land into urban shantytowns.

Money well-spent, in Bushite eyes, to create a second fascist enclave in the oil rich Andes (in addition to Colombia), from which to launch economic and military warfare against Venezuela, Ecuador (both with leftist governments, both members of OPEC), Argentina (leftist government--big oil find there, recently), Bolivia's central government, and anyone else with oil who gets uppity ideas about social justice and South American self-determination.

That's the war plan. See

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

Rumsfeld doesn't cop to it all, but there's enough there--reading between the lines--to get the picture. Economic warfare against Venezuela and other uppities, destroy the economy, and destabilize the country, followed by "swift" action by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" (fascist thugs planning coups).

Exxon Mobile fired the first shot in this war, in Sept. 07, which just came to fruition this week, with legal moves to try to freeze $12 billion of Venezuela's assets, in a dispute over Venezuela's 60% cut of the profits from Venezuelan oil. Exxon Mobile walked out of talks on that deal (which other companies like France's Total agreed to). And now we know why. They have no interest in fair compensation. They want to topple the Chavez government, destroy democracy in South America, and have it all--reinstallation of fascist regimes, free access to all resources, violent repression of dissenters, and no obligation to the people who live there--who need schools, medical care, local development, food, land. And vampirish Donald Rumsfeld is orchestrating it.

And we thought he was "retired."

The Bolivians don't need more misery. And the Bolivarian revolution in Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and Nicaragua--and its leftist allies in Brazil, Uruguay and Chile--will hopefully stay united against this kind of bullying and interference, as well as for the purposes of cooperation on social justice and development, and on handling impacts of global warming. Cuz the broken U.S. democracy is not gonna be helpful any time soon. And both the Bushites, and many Democratic leaders, and their corporate puppetmasters, clearly intend very great ill, indeed.

[donsu]

2. and its not just Bolivia flooding. RSOE daily shows many countries flooding

it is constant. even here in the US there is flooding almost everyday in some state.

[High Plains]

3. This happened there last year, too.

I was in the Chapare at the time. The main highway was blocked by landslides. We had to leave our vehicle on one side, walk through the mud about half a mile, then hire taxis on the other side. It was hot and sweaty, too.