White House extends Andean trade preferences, threatens Bolivia, Ecuador

[Judi Lynn]

White House extends Andean trade preferences, threatens Bolivia, Ecuador
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 23:09.

Following approval by both houses of Congress, President Bush Feb. 29 signed a 10-month extension of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), designed to discourage Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia from producing illegal drugs by allowing the four countries to export most of their goods to the US duty-free. White House spokesman Dana Perino said the ATPA extension will provide time to implement the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and for Congress to approve the US-Colombia FTA. Perino also warned that Bolivia and Ecuador could lose their trade benefits because of actions those governments have taken, "including with respect to the treatment of US investors."

http://www.ww4report.com/node/5180

[Judi Lynn]

1. Because Bolivians have been brutlized so wildly up to this point, they're probably not shaking in

their boots because the asshole in the White House is threatening to make them suffer even more. They've already found out what suffering is all about, thanks to U.S. meddling and thrill killing there years ago, making sure the European descended puppet dictators kept the brown people pushed down into the dirt.

Here's a look at a BIG Bolivian favorite puppet in Washington:

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.
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http://thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html

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Don't even get some of us started discussing what _{Bush #41's} pet company, Bechtel did to Bolivia with the water privatization, even to trying to claim ownership of rain water private citizens attempted to collect in rain barrels after Bechtel raised everyone's water costs far, FAR higher than they could afford, then attempted to claim ownership ALSO of the water in the rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, mud puddles, - maybe even the people's TEARS, ( :sarcasm: , please!) - which triggered massive riots, police shootings of the public, arrests, and invasions of their homes, and final disappearance of Bechtel from Bolivia. Ordinarily, many, MANY people disappear and the companies stay!