into believing Evo Morales' great popularity is a result of dastardly evil doing by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, as they attempt to seize control of Latin America.
Meanwhile, it seems Evo Morales does just fine on his own hard work and committment to his own people.
Look for our own AP to start stressing even more, responding to the prodding of the
Bush administration, the fact he has been a coca farmer, as if this centuries-old practice makes people "terrorists," or "commies," or "drug traffickers."
Yeah, they can't wait to concoct a reason to take over Bolivia and put Evo Morales out of commission, no doubt. I'm hoping Latin American countries finally get the unity they'll need in time to repel further attempts to dominate and terrorize them by our right-wing administrations.
I hope they have learned as much as they need from the history Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush forced upon them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THIS is the kind of Bolivian "President" our right-wing Presidents have loved to see in Bolivia:
6 COLONEL HUGO BANZER
President of Bolivia
In 1964, the New York Times wrote of Bolivia: "No country in the Western Hemisphere is more dependent on Washington's aid and nowhere has the United States Embassy played a more obtrusive role in establishing that fact." So in 1970, when President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by U.S. interests and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire. The coup to overthrow Torres, led by U.S. trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington. When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin placed the U.S. Air Force radio at their disposal.
Once in power, Banzer began a reign of terror. Schools were shut down as hotbeds of "political subversive agitation provoked by anarchists opposed to the new institutional order," the Soviet Embassy was closed, and Banzer raised a foreign loan to pay Gulf Oil compensation. Within two years, 2,000 people were arrested and tortured without trial. As in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil (see cards 12, 8, and 5), the native Indians were forced off their land and deprived of tribal identity. Tens of thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians. Migration Under-Secretary Guido Strauss told the U.N. the goal was to create a "white Bolivia." When Catholic clergy tried to aid the Indians, the regime, with CIA help, launched terrorist attacks against them, and this "Banzer Plan" became a model for similar anti-Catholic actions throughout Latin America.
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http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/SouthAmerica.html
Hugo Banzer with Augusto Pinochet, and with José María Aznar
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