Morales accuses US of 'conspiracy'

[bemildred]

Source: al Jazeera

Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has accused the US ambassador of leading a conspiracy against his government and the US main aid organisation of carrying out a "dirty campaign" against him.

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera the Bolivian leader also said he had suffered from racism, even since his election as president.

"The conspiracy against my government is headed by the US ambassador," Morales said, referring to Philip Goldberg.

"USAID, with funds that come American tax payers, who think they are helping the Bolivian people, is using the money in a dirty campaign against my government and especially against me."

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A273B880-3BAD-4733-8893-F271D43C5F74.htm

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. No doubt in my mind

Economic hit men are attacking him as we speak.

[LakeSamish706]

2. Quick fix, throw the bastard out of the country... n/t

[scratchy]

3. yeah and the USAID with him

[lumpy]

4. Somethings never change . Like US interference in Latin

America. Disgusting.

[goforit]

5. Regime change is the Bushco way.

[lumpy]

6. Actually it is the US presidential way. The US had been

interfering in Latin America politics since Teddy Roosevelt. The big reason? Economic.

[Judi Lynn]

7. People who meddle in other countries are criminals. Period.

_Bush has no business going behind Morales' back, pumping in tons of financial support to the racist European descended settlers, many of whom Hugo Banzer imported from South Africa in his attempt to create a "white Bolivia" who were given the land U.S. coup-assisted bloody torturer/dictator Hugo Banzer threw the indigenous citizens out of in the 1970's.

Bolivia should be managed by REAL Bolivian people, not by foreign interests, and certainly not by U.S. right-wing scum.

_Bush had Rumsfeld go behind Morales' back earlier, before he had been elected, when he knew the coming election would produce the first indigenous Bolivian President who had the loyalty of the vast majority of the population. They made arrangements with the Bolivian military officers to remove and destroy some shoulder launch MANPAD missiles BEFORE Morales could be inagurated, once it was clear who was going to win.

This is not an action Morales would have allowed, as Morales has clearly stated, and they knew it. They sought to deplete his defenses before he got there. Dirty, dirty _Bush.

Hoping and praying the new South American leaders succeed in establishing their desperately needed unity which has been denied them by murderous, greedy, brutal interference from Washington.

Economics can have NOTHING to do with it. You don't just murder and steal to get what you want. If _Bush by god is a "bidness" man, it's about time he learned to do "bidness" the right way.

[MasonJar]

8. First Chavez and now Morales. Bush cannot be tarred and feathered soon

enough for me.

[Peace Patriot]

9. Don't forget that "terrorist-lover," Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, whose

country just got bombed/invaded by Colombia, using U.S. surveillance and ordinance ("smart bombs"), and very likely U.S. aircraft and personnel. They killed the chief FARC hostage negotiator, Raul Reyes, in his sleep, in a camp just inside the Ecuador border, along with 24 others--bodies found in their pajamas and underwear, some shot in the back. Correa was negotiating for the release of 12 more FARC hostages, and was working in coordination with the presidents of France, Argentina, Venezuela and others, to get more FARC hostages released and get peace talks going in Colombia's 40+ year civil war. After the U.S./Colombia committed this outrage--which the entire OAS condemned as a violation of Ecuador's sovereignty--Uribe had the nerve to claim that he had a laptop computer from the bomb site with messages in it showing that Presidents Correa and Chavez were receiving money from, or giving money to, FARC--incoherent, fabricated charges, comparable to the Bushite lies about WMDS and Al Qaeda in Iraq. Uribe furthermore said he intended to take Hugo Chavez to the World Court on charges of "genocide"--Chavez who has harmed no one, invaded no one, jailed no one unfairly, and has run a beneficial, democratic government for ten years, while Uribe's pals have murdered thousands of union leaders, political leftists, small peasant farmers, human rights workers and journalists, including targeted assassinations of anti-death squad political marchers last month!

The most important fact about Chavez, Correa and Morales, however--the fact that explains all this--is that all three control vast oil deposits and other resources and are committed to using these resources for social justice programs. That is their "crime." The Bushites want their oil. Uribe--bought and paid for with $5.5 BILLION in Bush-U.S. military aid (our tax money)--is a Bushite tool for attempting to destabilize and topple these democratic governments, to restore global corporate predator control of the Andes oil fields. So Uribe lies just like Bush and Cheney--outlandish lies, to hide their greed and murderous intent; lies to cover up/obscure their own crimes.

It is no accident that these Bush demonizations are targeting these particular leaders. They also have Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, in their sights--because she is an ally of Chavez, Correa and Morales, and because there was a big oil find in Argentina recently.

Last year, they targeted her with the infamous "suitcase full of money" Bush/CIA caper out of Miami. A rich Miami operative, with two jaguars in his driveway, gets caught in the airport coming into Argentina with $800,000 U.S. cash in a suitcase. Customs officials confiscate the money, cuz they don't know what it's for, and let the rich Miamian--a dual U.S./Venezuelan citizen--return to Miami, where he turns up as the "witness" for a Bushbot U.S. attorney, who claims the money was from Chavez to de Kirchner for her presidential campaign, and announces prosecution of two Venezuelans and a Uruguayan for...get this..."failing to report to the U.S. Attorney General as 'agents of a foreign government.'" He says he has taped conversations proving that they were in the U.S. to convince the rich Miamian to hide the connection to Chavez--a matter of abiding concern to the U.S. Bushbot government, and to the upstanding citizens of Miami. (Not.) But the funny part is--as pointed out by Venezuela's VP--that Chavez visited Argentina the next day, on a state visit, and, if he wanted to give money to de Kirchner, could have carried it with diplomatic immunity, rather than sending it in a private aircraft, vulnerable to border inspection and confiscation. But logic ain't in it--when it comes to Bushbot U.S. attorneys, as we have learned. They're after the headline: dirty leftist money in South America; dirty Democrats in the U.S. Whatever they can squeeze out of their political prosecutions, using the Bushbot NSA spying network, dirty tricks and cooked evidence.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the election as president of Argentina easily, without the CIA money. She is a major thorn in the Bushites' hides, because the truth is that she cannot be bought. She is a true blue public servant, advocate of social justice and strong ally of Bolivarian democracies--Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. She blasted the Bushites for their dirty tricks, said she knew what their intention was--to "divide and conquer" Venezuela-Argentina--and proceeded to strengthen Argentina's ties with Venezuela even further, with an oil for beef deal, and, by announcing, in her inaugural address, Argentina's support for Chavez's efforts to get FARC hostages released.

[Voltaire99]

10. Latin America: the next invasion?

I suspect the saber rattling against Iran may sputter out as logistical and material risks make it too hard for the empire to attack.

My money's on the next brutal "democratization" taking place in South America. Bolivia, Venezuela -- take your pick. Both have resources Sam needs.