Note of Caution: Obama and Bolivia

[magbana]

From Casa del Duderino Blog

Are you over your hangover from partying up Obama tuesday night? Good, because here are some sober thoughts on Obama from Bolivia.
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What could President Obama mean for improving US - Bolivian relations after Bush sent Goldberg to support a bunch of fascist coup plotters? Well if Obama´s current advisors signify anything, not much. A while back Gringo Tambo dug up this video of Obama´s Bolivia advisor, Greg Craig speaking about the possible extradition of Bolivia´s ex-Pres "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada for his role in the 2003 El Alto Gas War in which more than 60 civilian protesters were shot dead by the national military. Summerized:
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“we do not accept your characaterization of those events as a massacre.” He says there were no crimes against humanity, genocide, disappearances, or torture, but rather, “tragically, civil disturbances which cost lives.”
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Oh, did I forget to tell you?, that in addition to advising Obama on Bolivia, Craig is also Goni´s legal representive. Conflict of interst. What conflict of interest?
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But hey, Bolivia is a small poor country anyways. Who cares? Obama is awesome, smart, unifying, and "transhistorical"- MLK´s dream fulfilled. Except Bolivians, like Americans, also elected in 2005 their first President from a group historically enslaved, racially segregation, and widely discriminated against. So Bolivia has been living a "postracial" politics ever since, right?
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I am sorry to say this folks, but if Bolivia and Morales are any gauge, what we saw during the McCain-Palin rallies ain´t nothing compared to what is down the road in an Obama Presidency. Dig in, beacuse now is the time when the real work of progressives starts.

Posted by El Duderino at 1:43 PM
Labels: obama, Racism

http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2008/11/note-of-caution.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Chiquita death squad attorney floated for A.G.!

This does not bode well, to say the least....

See my post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x9608

And the source
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/lawyer-for-chiquita-in-co_b_141919.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Oh, God! Craig is "Goni's" legal guy, and remember, James Carville went to Bolivia

to help him with his Presidential campaign. They helped him get into office, from which he killed all those people.

If he didn't fear being tried, why the hell did he beat it out of Bolivia and burrow into the fascist tyrant-rich environment of US puppet butchers who can't go back to Latin America who have infested South Florida, as soon as he was put out of office? He knows what should lie ahead for him, according to the laws of his country.

This is unreal!

Thanks for the information. We need the truth, above everything else.