Police uncover alleged plot to kill Evo Morales

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian police foiled an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, killing three men in a 30-minute gunbattle with a mysterious group that included suspects from Hungary, Ireland and possibly Croatia, government officials said Thursday.
Police had attempted to arrest the men in the center of Santa Cruz, an eastern Bolivian city and hub of anti-Morales sentiment, but they fled to a hotel where an intense shootout took place around 4 a.m., witnesses and police said.
The alleged assassins detonated a grenade inside the hotel, blowing out its windows amid the gunfight, according to police. Three of the suspects, identified by state media as Hungarian, Irish and Bolivian, were killed.
A second Hungarian was arrested, along with a retired Bolivian soldier who had fought in conflicts in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, state prosecutor Jorge Gutierrez said.

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Wat kan ik zeggen. Wereldpolitiek in een notendop?

Latijns-Amerika en de uitdaging van de crisis

BELEM -- Dit pijnlijk onderwerp bracht vijf linkse presidenten bij elkaar voor een ontmoeting met het publiek van het Wereld Sociaal Forum. Latijns-Amerika zal delen in de klappen, maar de presidenten zien het liever als een gelegenheid om een regionale koers te varen en voorgoed los te komen van de kwetsbare afhankelijkheidsrelatie met het Noorden.

Natuurlijk zitten ze niet allemaal op precies dezelfde ideologische golflengte. Van de Venezolaanse president Hugo Chávez weten we dat hij veel feller uithaalt naar de VS dan zijn Braziliaanse collega Inácio Lula da Silva. De discours van de andere drie presidenten die naar het WSF afzakten -Evo Morales van Bolivia, Rafael Correa van Ecuador en Ferdinando Lugo van Paraguay- zitten ergens tussenin. De presidenten ontmoeten elkaar steeds meer en wenden de crisis aan om de integratie binnen de regio te vergroten. “We hebben onze verschillen,” zegt Lula, “maar we kunnen tenminste samen zitten rond de tafel om te praten.”

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Venezuela Congratulates Ally Bolivia for Ratification of New Constitution

Mérida, January 26th, 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez congratulated Bolivian President Evo Morales by telephone Sunday for the ratification of a new constitution that strengthens the Bolivian state's sovereignty over natural resources, lays the framework for the re-distribution of unproductive large estates, and could weaken right-wing separatist movements in Bolivia's resource-rich eastern provinces.

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Bolivia stopt DEA-spionnen

'Defending Bolivia'

"From today all the activities of the US DEA are
suspended indefinitely," the Bolivian leader said in
the coca-growing region of Chimore, in the central
province of Chapare.

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Bolivia: Unprecedented Alliance Defeats Right-Wing Assault

LA PAZ: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats. The right's offensive to topple Morales, which climaxed with the September 11-12 "civic coup" attempt, has been decisively rolled back by the combined action of the government and social movements.

The government secured a historic vote in its favour with more than 67% endorsing Morales' mandate in a referendum in August that also revoked the mandate of two opposition prefects. Another opposition prefect was arrested for his role in the coup. And now Morales has secured a referendum for the new draft Constitution to "refound Bolivia" on the basis of justice for the indigenous majority.

More importantly, a strengthened Morales government now counts on an unprecedented alliance of indigenous, peasants' and workers' organizations determined to defend their government and the Morales-led "democratic and cultural revolution."

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Latijns-Amerikaanse indianen scharen zich achter Boliviaanse leider

De Boliviaanse leider krijgt volle steun van Indianen uit verschillende Latijns-Amerikaanse landen.

Artikel MO

The Paramilitary Massacre in Bolivia

Bolivian President Evo Morales’ expulsion of US Ambassador Philip Goldberg on September 10 for alleged coup plotting sparked the latest diplomatic crisis in the Americas. But the diplomatic fallout has overshadowed the internal dynamics that led to the massacre of some 30 campesinos with perhaps as many as 40 more disappeared in El Porvenir, Pando, near Bolivia’s northeastern border with Brazil. The massacre coincided with the 35th anniversary of the violent overthrow of socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile.

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Latin America uniting against neocons of Washington

Wayne Madsen schrijft:

From Bolivia to Venezuela and Honduras to Argentina, Latin American governments are standing firm against the interference by the American administration, which has done everything possible to stoke the flames of insurrection and secession in energy-rich areas of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, who faces CIA and U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-sponsored right-wing rebellions in the energy-rich provinces of Santa Cruz, Pando, Tarija, and Beni, expelled U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg for interfering in Bolivia’s domestic affairs and supporting the right-wing rebels.

The State Department’s spokesman Sean McCormack, whose snottiness is unprecedented for a spokesperson for America’s seat of foreign diplomacy, responded by expelling Bolivia’s ambassador. McCormack had earlier joked that Russia could send warships to Venezuela if it could find any that could make it that far.

In a side quarrel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reportedly upbraided British neocon and pro-Israeli Foreign Secretary David Miliband by stating “who are you to fucking lecture me?”

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, in solidarity with Morales and reacting to yet another CIA-planned coup against him, after an April 2002 coup organized by then-U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro failed, ordered U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave Venezuela. The State Department responded by expelling Venezuela’s ambassador in Washington.

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From Pristina to La Paz: Expelled US Ambassador to Bolivia had been in charge of Kosovo Secession

The Balkanisation of Bolivia

by Wilson García Mérida

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The influence of the CIA and of Ambassador Goldberg on the political actions of Reyes Villa (a former captain of the army associated with the dictatorships of Banzer and Garcia Meza) is irrefutable.

The separatist prefect has systematically blocked a peaceful solution to the conflict and in its place has developed a raging campaign of misinformation that seeks to create the conditions for confrontation on a national scale.

The US Embassy is deploying an effort of collective indoctrination against the indigenous crisis, promoting racial hatred and separatism that was evident during the events of January 11, 2007, in unison with business organizations such as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Cainco) in Santa Cruz, which openly supports Reyes Villa and his "advisors."

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Defend Democracy Against US-backed Aggression in Bolivia and Venezuela!

In the midst of the alarm over the defence of Bolivian democracy against US-funded fascist aggression. the Washington-DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has called on the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other agencies to release information detailing whom it is funding in Bolivia — where violent right-wing opposition groups have wreaked havoc this week in a series of shootings, beatings, ransacking of offices, and sabotage of a natural gas pipeline — as well as in other Latin American countries including Venezuela.

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Chavez Orders U.S. Ambassador to Leave Venezuela Within 72 Hours

``The U.S. is behind the plan against Bolivia, behind the terrorism,'' Chavez said at a political rally for candidates of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela. ``We're committed to being free. Enough crap from you Yankees.''

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Coup Plot Against Chavez Disclosed on Venezuelan TV

"We've infiltrated the most radical and fascist movements...we've known for a long time that they are looking for land and air rockets and sophisticated equipment to blow up the presidential plane."

Chavez emphasized that if there is a coup, "the counter-coup would be overwhelming."

He also linked the plot with US plans to assassinate him, "The empire is desperate and the Yankee-sympathizers here are helping them attack me." He outlined the US strategy to use Venezuelan flags on foreign or US planes in order to make it look like a local rebellion.

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Morales zet VS-ambassadeur het land uit

Morales zet VS-ambassadeur het land uit

Morales is al geruime tijd verwikkeld in een machtsstrijd met de gouverneurs van de rijkste provincies van het land, die tegen de zin van de president meer autonomie nastreven. De bestuurders van die regio's zien niets in het voornemen van Morales de grondwet op ingrijpende wijze te veranderen ten gunste van de arme, indiaanse bevolking. AD

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised-The Bolivia Edition.-Postponed ;)

Maar als ik Morales (of Chavez of een andere ALBA-president was) was zou ik voorlopig niet in het vliegtuig stappen.

Evo Morales dwingt Shell Bolivia te verlaten - goed nieuws voor het Boliviaanse volk

Onder de kop “Bolivia geeft Shell een schijntje”, implicerend dat het arme oliebedrijf op een onrechtvaardige manier wordt afgezet door dat socialistische tuig in Bolivia, meldt Trouw goed nieuws uit het Zuid-Amerikaanse land.

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Bolivianen steunen Morales massaal in referendum

De riskante gok die de Boliviaanse president Evo Morales nam, om met een referendum een politieke impasse te doorbreken en zijn linkse revolutie een nieuwe impuls te geven, heeft zich uitbetaald. Na de eerste officiële tellingen in eenvijfde van de stembureaus bleek maandag dat Morales met 52 procent voorlopig in het zadel kan blijven. De Pers

Evo mag blijven

La Paz - De Boliviaanse president Evo Morales heeft met gemak een referendum over zijn aanblijven gewonnen[...]Het is de vraag of er met de overwinning van Morales een eind komt aan de machtsstrijd met regionale gouverneurs van gasrijke provincies. Die eisen autonomie, omdat ze de aardgasbaten niet willen delen. RNW

Bolivia: Is Evo in Danger after the August 10 referendum ? The US prepares a civil war

Michael Collon

Behind the rightwing, the United States prepares a civil war

It is the new tactic of the United States. Finding themselves unable to win a war of occupation, Washington is resorting to indirect war, war by proxies. Currently, strategy of Washington is to try to foment a civil war in Bolivia. For that, the provinces controlled by the rightwing and which contain the greater part of the oil and gas reserves along with the large agricultural properties tied to the transnationals, these provincial regimes are multiplying their provocations to prepare to secede.

Having personally studied the secret actions of the great powers to break up Yugoslavia (1), I made a point of drawing the attention of the Bolivians, during some interviews: today, Washington will try to transform their country into a new Yugoslavia.

Here are the ingredients needed for this deed: 1. Massive CIA investments. 2. An ambassador specialized in destabilization. 3. Experienced fascists. With these ingredients, you can prepare a coup d'etat or a civil war. Or both.

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