US Diplomat Admits Meeting with Bolivian Opponents
US Diplomat Admits Meeting with Bolivian Opponents
La Paz, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) The US charge d''affaire in Bolivia, Peter Brennan, has admitted his meetings with the opposition and tried to justify them, the Bolivian Interior Minister, Carlos Romero has announced in a message published on Twitter today.
The minister warned that the meetings between US diplomats and the opposition have made bilateral relations tense and constitute interference in internal affairs.
Romero informed Brennan of his viewpoint in a meeting on Thursday, during which they tackled different issues, among them the links of the US officials with right-wing sectors and the struggle against drug trafficking.
A few months ago the media reported that Brennan had held meetings in Santa Cruz with journalist Carlos Valverde, two months before he launched a series of false accusations against the head of state on the eve of the referendum on the second presidential term of office.
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Regime Change in Bolivia: US Intelligence Preparing to Oust President Evo Morales?
By Nil Nikandrov
Global Research, June 11, 2016
Strategic Culture Foundation
US intelligence agencies have ramped up their operations intended to remove Bolivian President Evo Morales from office. All options are on the table, including assassination. Barack Obama, who sees the weakening of Latin America’s “hostile bloc of populist states” as one of his administration’s foreign-policy victories, intends to buoy this success before stepping down.
Washington also feels under the gun in Bolivia because of China’s successful expansion in the country. Morales is steadily strengthening his financial, economic, trade, and military relationship with Beijing. Chinese businesses in La Paz are thriving – making investments and loans and taking part in projects to secure a key position for Bolivia in the modernization of the continent’s transportation industry. In the next 10 years, thanks to Bolivia’s plentiful gas reserves, that country will become the energy hub of South America. Evo Morales sees his country’s development as his top priority, and the Chinese, unlike the Americans, have always viewed Bolivia as an ally and partner in a relationship that eschews double standards.
The US embassy in La Paz has been without an ambassador since 2008. He was declared persona non grata because of his subversive activities. The interim chargé d’affaires is currently Peter Brennan, and pointed questions have been raised about what agency he truly works for. He was previously stationed in Pakistan, where “difficult decisions” had to be made about assassinations, but most of his career has been spent handling Latin American countries. In particular, Brennan was responsible for introducing the ZunZuneo service into Cuba (an illegal program dubbed the “Cuban Twitter”). USAID fronted this CIA program, under the innocent pretext of helping to inform Cubans about cultural and sporting events and other international news. Once ZunZuneo was in place, there were plans to use this program to mobilize the population in preparation for a “Cuban Spring”. When reading about Brennan one often encounters the phrase – “dark horse”. He is used to getting what he wants, at any cost, and his tight deadline in Bolivia (before the end of Obama’s presidency) is forcing Brennan to take great risks.
Previously, Brennan (right) had “distinguished himself” during the run-up to the referendum on allowing President Evo Morales to run for reelection in 2019, as well as during the vote itself. To encourage “no” votes, the US embassy mobilized its entire propaganda machine, roused to action the NGOs under its control, and allocated considerable additional funds for the staging of protests. It is telling that many of those culminated in the burning of photographs of Morales wearing his presidential sash. A record-setting volley of dirt was fired at the president. Accusations of corruption were the most common, although Morales has always been open about his personal finances. It would have been hard to pin ownership of “$43 billion in offshore accounts” on him, as was done to Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.
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Peter Brennen
Evo Morales and David Choquehuanca, his Foreign Minister,
look as if they've fairly well learned all about this guy, who
appears to agree with the racist opposition it's time the white
people seized back control, which they had for centuries, only
allowing indigenous Bolivians to walk on the same sidewalk
with them after a revolution in 1952.
Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, Santa Cruz fascist Youth Movement,
who commit criminal violent assaults upon the native Bolivian
people who are unlucky enough to have born in the same country.
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