Is Bolivia the New Afghanistan, or Is O'Grady From The WSJ Delusional?
Is Bolivia the New Afghanistan, or Is O'Grady From The WSJ Delusional?
Posted: 11/04/2013 3:00 pm
Violeta Ayala.
Bolivian filmmaker
There are plenty of things to write about my country Bolivia, but I've never read something with more of an agenda that verges on delusional than this OpEd by Wall Street Journal Senior Journalist, Mary Anastasia O'Grady.
In her piece, Ms. O'Grady describes Bolivia as a rogue state and safe haven for terrorists.
She opens with Afghanistan, the brutal USSR occupation and Osama Bin Laden. Cue the thunder and oppressive music as Evo Morales enters stage left ... It seems the US propaganda machine is on the case again, this time with Bolivia in their sights because "something similar may be happening in Bolivia."
Now, my first question is how she can compare Evo Morales and Bolivia to Osama Bin Laden and Afganistan? Evo is the president of a sovereign nation, OBL was a leader of Al Qaeda who at one stage was hiding in Afghanistan and hunted by the CIA. It's like comparing the famous North American Indian leader Red Cloud to Obama, only Obama won and Osama lost.
Her eye-catching title reads, "Bolivia's decent into rogue state status," but what does that mean? A rouge state is a country that has broken international law and poses a threat to the security of other nations.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/violeta-ayala/is-bolivia-the-new-afghan_b_4214292.html
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So while people like O'Grady with an agenda continue to write publicly, I'll leave you with an old African proverb that says, "Until the lions have their own historians, the hunter will always be the hero."
The US has done everything to make itself an enemy for 100 years. Every leader NOT a fascist military dictator would likely agree with me on that, though probably not in public.
Try again.
You are in desperate, desperate need of a history class or a new path on over to a board on a more right-leaning path than this one. It seems as though all of South America has some sort of shortcoming in your book.
I'd love to know who makes your grade. 
You apparently don't see all the Colombian journalists who were murdered, or fled the country in fear for their lives after receiving more death threats than they could feel comfortable about, as any reflection on Colombia's "free expression."
You also don't seem to recall, even though it has been discussed here other times that Colombian journalists have told journalists from other countries they "self-censor" for self-defense, to keep from being murdered.
Also, remaining unacknowledged, is the fact Colombia's wildly popular, wildly beloved political comedian, Jaime Garzon, was assassinated, and after the investigation, taking years, during which time AUC narcotrafficker, Carlos Castano, publicly admitted he had set up the assassination himself. It didn't get tracked down until very recently, in a trial, that the original order came from the Colombian military, itself, even though it had been discussed, the object of speculation for years. The Colombian military had been one of his targets, too, in his comedy routines.
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