at the U.S. Embassy-Bolivia (La Paz) web site, nor anywhere else. He is not listed among the "principle officers" of the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia, and there is no entry for him in Wiki. I even tried the U.S. Embassy-Bolivia Face Book. I was trying to find out when he was appointed to Bolivia (whether by Bush, or recently by Obama/Clinton), who he is, etc. Nada.
KRISHNA (“Kris”) R. URS is listed as the Charge d’Affaires. (I guess that's embassy-speak for: our ambassador was kicked out, and this guy is pushing paper while we figure out how to get our corporations, the "war on drugs" and the CIA back into the country.)
http://bolivia.usembassy.gov/principal_officers.htmlThere sure are some weirdnesses at that web site. Some press release docs are corrupted. There is not one word that I can find about the U.S. ambassador (Philip Goldberg) being thrown out in September. The web site seems chaotic, or in transition at least. It gives the impression that the Obama administration has Bolivia on the "backburner," and/or doesn't have a clue, and/or doesn't have enough money to hire an information officer and a web techie, to keep the web site up to date (which could be true--we're broke!).
It's rather important to know whether Francisco Martinez is a Bushwhack mole, left behind by Goldberg to serve Bushwhack corpo/fascist interests, and to make trouble for the Obama team, or whether he was sent by Obama/Clinton on a clandestine mission for
them, or ...what? We don't know. It's interesting that Lugar is mouthing off, but the U.S. State Dept. has been silent on this second expulsion.
The general situation is that Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, is trying to get the Obama administration to smarten up on the
realities in South America, which is now a nearly solid wall of leftist governments opposed to U.S. domination and meddling. He particularly wants to straighten them out about Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in Bolivia, whom the Bushwhacks and our corpo/fascist press have tried to demonize, and concerning which the Obama team has so far sent wildly mixed signals. It is a highly sensitive moment, that may determine Obama policy in Latin America. And it is also a moment, and a situation, ripe for Bushwhack meddling. It could be the moment for them to strike, with one of their private coup plans (which I've little doubt they've set up with billions of stolen U.S. tax dollars and eight years to fund/prepare Bushwhack operatives in these countries). Da Silva is meeting with Obama in the White House sometime soon, and Obama is supposed to visit Brazil later in the year.
U.S. diplomacy in Latin America is nearly as big a mess as everything else the Bushwhacks have done. They've triggered a drug lord gang war in Mexico, probably deliberately to justify the "war on drugs" boondoggle billions, and to militarize Mexico for their main goal there: privatizing Mexico's oil. They've poured $6 BILLION in military aid into Colombia, which is all prepped to be the launching pad for war on Venezuela and Ecuador (to split off the oil rich provinces that are adjacent to Colombia into secessionist states, run by fascists, in control of the oil--much like they tried to do to Bolivia in September). Both of these situations are basically a nightmare for any well-intended U.S. administration--like the nightmares of Iraq and Afghanistan. And the Obama team is, of course, preoccupied with those wars, and with the Bushwhack Financial 9/11 (--that occurred in September, simultaneous with the attempted coup in Bolivia, interestingly).
But because something is a "mess" doesn't mean that it is purposeless. The Rumsfeld strategy is: chaos = opportunity, so they create chaos, deliberately. And we simply don't know to what extent the Obama administration agrees with Bushwhack goals--for instance, securing U.S. oil supplies (for our corporate monsters to gouge us with)--nor whether they would pursue that goal by destroying democracy in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia--or by winking at private forces (say, in collusion with the Colombian military) who try to do so.
Who Francisco Martinez is might be a clue to all this--to how Obama/Clinton are going to proceed, and what the fate of U.S./Latin American relations is going to be. There seems to be a lot of talk that Obama is going to lift some of the sanctions on Cuba, as an overture to Latin America, and signal of a new and better policy--since most Latin American leaders want the embargo lifted. How seriously are the Bushwhacks maneuvering to sabotage that overture, and is Francisco Martinez part of that agenda, or is his expulsion from Bolivia just a local incident (a CIA agent caught with his pants down)?
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