The Morales morass in Bolivia

The Washington Times ^ | 12-22-05 | Editor

[JZelle]

Bolivia's incoming President Evo Morales could easily become the nightmare for the United States that he boasted about becoming on the campaign trail. He supports the growing of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is an ally of a prominent anti-U.S. firebrand, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and wants to nationalize Bolivia's oil sector. He will undoubtedly do everything in his power to counter U.S. economic and geopolitical interests in Latin America. Interestingly enough, the electoral landslide that will be bringing Mr. Morales to power was unwittingly aided by the architects of U.S. drug policy in Latin America. While it is true that a host of factors have catapulted Mr. Morales to power, not least among them is U.S. support for drug-eradication schemes. The unfortunate rise of Mr. Morales should spur thinking in Washington about U.S. foreign policy in America's near abroad.

[Semper Paratus]

Makes building the southern border wall all the more imperative.

[Hayzo]

All these little stalins down in SA along with their co-opter (the PRC) are going to be the next battlefront in the years ahead. The dominoes are falling.

[TonyWojo]

Another one joins the USSR, Union of SouthAmerican Socialist Republics

[petro45acp]

Talk about moving on up!

This little @&#$(*-stain started out as a Chapare cocoa grower, moved up into the top spot of an illegal "cocoa growers union" (legal cocoa is grown on 15,000 hectares in the "Sud Yungas" region, the stuff for "export," the chapare) and when the pusilanimous government caved to it's legitimacy, he began this silly rise to the presidency!

shoulda been captured and prosecuted a long time ago when the Bolivian government still had at least the vestigial remains of testicles.

Merry Christmas!

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