Morales accuses US of not condemning 'terrorism'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Internatonal Herald Tribune/Associated Press

Morales accuses US of not condemning 'terrorism'
The Associated Press
Published: September 24, 2008

UNITED NATIONS: Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday accused the United States of failing to condemn "acts of terrorism" in his country, charges that come as he claims the U.S. is encouraging unrest there.

The leftist Bolivian leader's relationship with the United States has grown increasingly strained, culminating earlier this month with the expulsion of Washington's ambassador, whom he accused of backing violent protests in which Morales effectively lost control of half his country.

Latin America "condemns these acts of terrorism, but the United States does not," he said in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

Earlier this month, anti-Morales protesters blocked highways, ransacked offices, closed border crossings and sabotaged natural gas pipelines in Bolivia.

Morales also praised the 12-nation Union of South American Nations, which was founded in May, telling reporters on the sidelines that the group could be "a factor of hope for all of humanity" and presenting it as an alternative to the Organization of American States, the group made up of 35 countries in the Americas and headquartered in Washington.


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24/news/UN-UN-Bolivia.php

[Judi Lynn]

1. Bolivian president censures United States

updated 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
Bolivian president censures United States

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday said the United States has tried to thwart his political ambitions and, more recently, failed to condemn a pro-autonomy movement that uses "terrorist" tactics.

The 48-year-old Morales, in an address to the United Nations General Assembly, described privatization as the cause of the world's financial crisis, and credited his nationalization of Bolivia's petroleum industry as a boon to the nation's economy.

"In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons," he said. "Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state -- after the nationalization, after changing the law -- Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy."

Morales, the nation's first indigenous president, cited "a permanent conspiracy" among pro-autonomy, largely white groups in four eastern petroleum-rich areas, or "departments," that oppose his efforts to redistribute some of their wealth to poorer areas of the country.

He noted that he acceded to his critics' demands that he hold a referendum on his popularity and was vindicated, winning it last month with an overwhelming 67 percent of the vote.

More:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/23/bolivia.morales/index.html

[ck4829]

2. These are the new Contras.

Their terrorist tactics are exactly the same.

How long before they start shooting at doctors and nurses and trafficking in drugs?

K&R!

[judasdisney]

3. Fucking Finally

Finally, Morales hits the winning strategy. What the fuck took him soooooo long to finally hit the U.S. where it hurts? Correa was the first to do it with his demand that Ecuador get a Miami military base. Why aren't all Latin leaders following Correa's goddamn Ace?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Bolivian leader slams U.S. at UN

Bolivian leader slams U.S. at UN
Patrick Markey, Reuters
Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2008

UNITED NATIONS - Bolivian President Evo Morales, confronting a political crisis at home, criticized the United States on Tuesday for backing opponents he charges are trying to organize a coup against his leftist government.

Morales, a close ally of Venezuela's anti-U.S. leader, Hugo Chavez, expelled the U.S. ambassador earlier this month after accusing Washington of fomenting violence against him in Bolivia, one of South America's poorest nations.

"I would like to hear representatives of the U.S. government rejecting these acts of terrorism," Morales told the UN General Assembly in a speech laced with anti-imperialist rhetoric. "But you know, they are allies, of course they will never condemn this."

South American leaders plan to meet Wednesday at the United Nations for talks on easing the crisis between the Morales government and opposition governors who have balked at signing a preliminary agreement aimed at ending violence.

More:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f73f9a69-8139-43ea-a5d4-3b57edacdbbd

[Nihil]

5. Silly wabbit ...

... if the US does it, it's "bringing freedom" not "terrorism" ...

He'll be asking for a level playing field next! :rofl:

[pattmarty]

6. "One country's terrorism is another country's capitalism".

[Peace Patriot]

7. Well, now that the first world is in financial meltdown, maybe they will be forced to

listen to the third world, because the third world does have some interesting solutions:

1. Transparent vote counting.

2. The government as the advocate of the poor vs. "organized money" (as FDR put it).

3. Promoting small organic farmers vs. big corpo, planet-destroying agriculture.

4. End the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. 'war on drugs.'

5. Use national resources for everyone's benefit.

6. Sovereignty of the people vs. global corporate predator domination.

7. Patience, perseverance, peacefulness, non-violence, cooperation.

And more--much more.

[Judi Lynn]

8. BOLIVIA: Morales Cites "Evidence" of U.S. Meddling

Source: IPS News

BOLIVIA: Morales Cites "Evidence" of U.S. Meddling
By Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Bolivian President Evo Morales reiterated the charge Tuesday that the U.S. government was plotting to overthrow his government and that Washington had a hand in the recent episodes of violence in which a number of his supporters were killed and wounded by opposition gangs.

"We have the evidence," Morales told a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York Tuesday, regarding U.S. involvement with the groups and individuals in certain provinces who are refusing to recognise the authority of the federal government in La Paz and are trying to assert their economic and political dominance over indigenous populations by violent means.

The Bolivian president charged that the George W. Bush administration has not only given away a "tremendous amount of money" to the opposition groups through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but also provided them with ammunition to carry out acts of sabotage and killings of unarmed indigenous people.

Despite its formal denial of these charges, the U.S. government has not issued any statement condemning the killings, looting and acts of sabotage that have cost millions of dollars in losses.

~snip~
"{President} Bush sent me a message {saying} if I am not friend, I am an enemy," said Morales, who added, "I'm a friend of the people of the United States. I am in touch with many groups who believe in social justice."



Read more: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43985

[Xipe Totec]

9. Did he also prove the sun rises in the East? nt

[Judi Lynn]

10. Bush's ambassador Goldberg also was helpful in Yugoslavia:

Bolivia, Yugoslavia and US Ambassador Philip Goldberg
Michael Karadjis

I feel forced to write to correct some confusion that has been circulating regarding the current US ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, who has been supporting the so-called “autonomy” referendum by the Bolivian oligarchy.

A continuous line has come out that Goldberg “has experience in partition” because he allegedly participated in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. This tends to be a secondary point alongside a more general point that erroneously compares actual oppressed nations, such as the Kosovar Albanians, the poorest people in Europe, who have striven for independence for over a century, with the rich oligarchy of low-lands Bolivia, engaged in an imperialist-backed destabilization of the Bolivian revolution.

Along with Kosova, some also list Tibet and other examples of so-called “secessionism” as being related to the Bolivian oligarchy’s campaign. One feels compelled to add Palestine, Eritrea, Bangladesh, East Timor, Aceh, Tamil Ealam and other national liberation struggles by oppressed peoples just to make it consistent.

Much more could be said on the unscientific nature of such comparisons, but the essential point is that when Lenin was advocating the right of *oppressed nations* to self-determination he would have been surprised to see people a century later managing to confuse this with any “right” of *oppressor classes* to the same.

If struggles by oppressed nations and oppressor classes are now going to be all lumped together as “secession,” perhaps we ought to go back to the long “struggle” of the white Rhodesian elite against Britain, and declare it fundamentally similar to the struggle of the black Zimbabwean masses against that elite – both advocated “secession” from Britain.

The claims about Goldberg and the Balkans appear aimed at fitting out this false comparison with a coordinator. If the same bad guy, now stirring up the Bolivian oligarchy to “secession”, previously also pushed for “secession” of nations of the former Yugoslavia, then this proves how wicked those peoples of the Balkans were for struggling for self-determination against an oppressive regime.

More:
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/05/bolivia-yugoslavia-and-us-ambassador.html

[Xipe Totec]

11. Joel R. Poinsette and the Masonic Wars

historical background information on Latin American meddling.


Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=zP07gHeWNA8C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=poinsett+masonic+wars&source=web&ots=wZjeliiak-&sig=PRTAZeixD3SfdOgr8CXSQxfJrF4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

[zeemike]

12. Don't worry we won't see the evidence

they never do. Our media will report the "evidence" in quotation marks but never look at the evidence ,much less report on it
And that is convenient to those that are willing to believe these brown skinned people just lie.