Posted on 09/13/2006 6:48:23 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(English-language translation)
During a visit to [Guatemala], Bolivian President Evo Morales yesterday denounced the existence of a plot by the United States to destabilize his government's policies.
Morales affirmed during a press conference: "There is a plot, an aggression from the United States so that the policies that seek a democratic change to achieve justice and equality fail."
Regarding the strikes held last week in four of the nine regions of Bolivia, the President said: "It has been against our policies, against the nationalization of the hydrocarbons, against the Constitutional Assembly, against the new land policy, of agrarian revolution."
He added: "Those groups that are taking advantage of the Bolivian people and state are opposed to change. The landowners don't want to give up their lands, supported by so-called structural-adjustment policies along neoliberal lines."
In the afternoon, Morales met privately with his counterparts Manuel Zelaya of Honduras and Enrique Bolaños of Nicaragua for the purpose of asking the Inter American Development Bank (BID) to cancel each country's debt.
The three presidents endorsed a letter that will also be signed by [the presidents] of Guyana and Haiti.
"Given the critical situation that our countries face, we come to our Latin American brothers....to ask their support of the cancellation that is being negotiated with the BID," they stated in the document.
The Bolivian leader pointed out that it is "impossible to pay" his country's foreign debt.
Support for Change
After being awarded the Latin American Indigenous Fund's "Orden Quinto Sol" and participating in the opening of that organization's seventh assembly, Morales insisted that it is necessary to support democratic processes of change that allow for an end to hunger and misery.
He also urged the Guatemalan authorities to advance policies that benefit the indigenous [population].
The Bolivian president suggested that solidarity be used as a tool to fight discrimination.
Agreement to Support Repatriation
[Guatemalan] President Óscar Berger asked his counterpart Evo Morales' support in repatriating 35 families, [or] some 150 Guatemalans, who were forced to leave the country during the armed conflict and who now want to return.
Berger received Morales in his office at the National Palace of Culture.
The Bolivian President invited Berger to visit his country and asked that the indigenous peoples be a priority during his tenure.
The possibility that an indigenous president will be elected in Guatemala was also discussed during the meeting.
"We are going to keep [activist] Rigoberta [Menchú] in a shop window until 2012....I cannot explain why, being a majority, they haven't won an election," Berger said.
Following the meetings, Berger announced that, on October 4, he will sign an agreement with his counterparts from Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to make [airplane] flights between these countries local.
Guess who has been spending too much time reading speeches from Venezuela?
Bolivia has a miserable economy, second only to Haiti. Their GNP is basically centered around cocaine. And their government lets it grow unabated.
"Remember all that dough we borrowed? Well, we don't want to pay it back, OK?"
Now that's what I call responsible government!
WTF? If there was no operation to destabilize this creep's govt. before, we should start one NOW.
Sounds like Morales' narco-state is beginning to collapse.
How come it is when these little pissant third world governments want to go socialist, they claim plots against them by the US?
Evo's learned his lines pretty well.
Diversion. Every despot needs a bogeyman, or the people start pointing fingers at their own failed government policies. Because of our size, prosperity, freedom, etc. we're the world's convenient whipping boy.
All Your Tacos Are Belong To Us!
No matter what happens in Boliva, or Venezuela, it will alway be the fault of Los Gringos de Mierda.
Beware the second coming of Bolivar. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia are all in the bulls eye.
I hear this from my neighbor, who is from Venezuela.
Is this guy a Democrat, sure sounds like one.
Of course, Morales will instill a siege mentality in the Bolivian population that will justify his government's taking oppressive measures under the pretext of "security".
How many times has Fidel Castro ranted about an "imminent" invasion of Cuba by the United States?
What's a Bolivia? These two-bit Commie dictators in these tiny, banana republics REALLY do take themselves way too seriously.
Not to mention Mexico with its current political unrest.
"Guess who has been spending too much time reading speeches from Venezuela?"
Ha! Ha!
The secret American CIA Plot: stand back, do nothing and watch them collapse from the weight of their leftist hubris. Now that's what I call an evil Plot!
Yup. If you can instill fear in people you can control them, and the Commies are masters at the Art of the Scare. Democrats are pretty good, too.
The fact that Morales is resorting to these tactics so soon after his election tells me two things--his economic indicators look particularly bad, even for a cr@phole like Bolivia, and the natives (i.e., the opposition party) are getting restless.
If we really wanted to do something destructive, we would send all of their people back.
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