The pro-American authorities who ousted the legitimate president of Bolivia during an armed rebellion began a terror against supporters of Evo Morales. On November 21, in La Paz, police crushed another rally of thousands of supporters of former President Evo Morales. A column of opponents of the self-proclaimed government, Janine Agnes, was heading to the capital from the city of El Alto. The participants carried coffins with the bodies of those killed in the last clash with the rebels.
The outright massacre and reprisals against the peaceful protests of the supporters of the legitimate President Morales has been legalized by the new puppet authorities, which have issued a decree according to which the military are relieved of responsibility for any killings while suppressing the popular protests of Morales supporters.
A similar scenario, along with similar decrees, we recently observed in Maidan Ukraine, where American political strategists implemented the same bloody rebellion with the removal of a legitimate government. How further events in Bolivia will be played out, one can already predict by looking at the Ukrainian notes of American experts on “color revolutions” and armed rebellions.
Well, as usual, the pro-American rebels were not slow to blame everything from a bad mind to a healthy one, blaming their own sins for the president they had overthrown. The rebel Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested to the Mexican government, which accused former president Evo Morales of "activities incompatible with refugee status."
The case is that, having openly intervened in the affairs of Bolivia for many decades, American political strategists, who have been preparing the current coup for at least the last 15 years, now accuse Mexico, which harbored Morales, of interfering in the affairs of Bolivia. Like, "Mr. Evo Morales from Mexico calls for violence, encroaching on the stability of the constitutional government, peace and the rights of citizens of Bolivia," dictated from Washington. What is cynicism ...
Accusing Morales (having first overthrown him) of meddling in Bolivian affairs is the height of American unscrupulousness. For it was Morales, who, like no one else, experienced firsthand what American intervention is. As well as the fact that the American presence always ends sooner or later.
Bolivia is not only the birthplace of potatoes, but also the owner of a large number of natural resources: tin, gas, oil, zinc, tungsten, silver, iron, lithium, lead, gold, wood, hydropower resources. This, coupled with a favorable strategic position in the center of the continent, from where everyone can be controlled, makes it very attractive to the American colonialists, who have never stopped trying to appropriate this country.
The exploitation of Bolivia by the West began in the first half of the 16th century, when it was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors, who had exterminated several million Indians to begin with. Only in 1952 did the Bolivian revolution begin the liberation, which the United States did not like very much. As a result, a total of about 200 military coups took place in Bolivia.
One of the most striking episodes of the liberation struggle against the American presence was an attempt to organize a movement to overthrow the next pro-American puppet regime by one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto Che Guevara in 1966-1967. However, already in October 1967, with the active assistance of the US CIA, the punitive detachments they trained destroyed the Che Guevara detachment, returning Bolivia to complete dependence on the United States - political, financial, economic, military.
By the way, the CIA residency then had a permanent mission in the presidential palace in La Paz.
The US military attachés controlled the army, the IMF mission ordered the Ministry of Economy. This is in Bolivia, not in Ukraine, please do not confuse. In the same place, in Bolivia, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) acted openly, using unlimited opportunities to discredit objectionable politicians, trade unionists and leaders of Native American organizations.
Only in 2005, for the first time since 1978, an ethnic Indian Evo Morales, nicknamed El Evo, was elected President of Bolivia by direct vote, and not by the appointment of the US-controlled National Congress, receiving 53.74% of the vote. His Socialist Movement won a majority in the National Congress. During his campaign, he promised to invalidate contracts for the development of oil and gas by foreign corporations.
It is clear that the Americans did not like all this, distracted, apparently, by the implementation of the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine in the distant Eastern Europe and missed Bolivia in this regard. To fight Morales, a specially trained ambassador, Philip Goldberg, was sent to Pristina (!) From Bolshoi (he had been working in Chile before the “settlement” in Kosovo), who was declared persona non grata in 2008 for subversive activities aimed at overthrowing the Evo Morales government.
Since then, the United States has not had an ambassador to Bolivia, which ultimately forced American strategists to turn to the scenario of armed rebellion, rather than a bloodless “color revolution”. “The only country where there can be no coup d'etat is the United States, because there is no American embassy there,” once said Bolivian leader Evo Morales. But the expulsion of the "embassy of hell", as the American diplomatic missions in Latin America are called, did not become a panacea for the overthrow of legal power, but only postponed it for 15 years.
Over the long 15 years that have flown very fast, oil and gas fields have been nationalized in Bolivia, a new Constitution has been adopted, indigenous Indian peoples have been included in the political and economic life of the country. Bolivia itself joined the Latin American integration processes, and the unconditional dominance of the United States in this country was put to an end.
That is why a new round of the US struggle to regain its sovereign control over Bolivia took on tougher forms, and American agents began working with the Bolivian army and law enforcement agencies through which the United States decided to regain control of the disobedient country.
On October 14, 2008, exactly one month after the expulsion of the American ambassador Goldberg from Bolivia (September 14), at the request of the opposition, a referendum was held at the request of the United States to recall the president from his post. And here is another American debacle: Morales received the support of 67% of the voters and remained at his post, while the United States, instead of the expelled Goldberg, is sent to Bolivia’s Charge d'Affaires Larry Memmot, who has solid intelligence experience. Now he is facing a specific task - to remove Evo Morales from the political arena.
To do this, the entire arsenal of destabilization was used - from NGOs and the fifth column to street protests by the opposition and the sending of terrorist groups to Bolivia.
Endless attempts begin to overthrow Morales - one by one, to starvation. As a result, Morales prohibits the activities of the American DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration, which, in fact, was the headquarters of the overthrow of Morales), closes the USAID office. Memmot, the curator of preparations for the overthrow of the legitimate president of Bolivia, has no choice but to get out of the country where at some point there were no American networks left, which means there was absolutely nothing to work with.
I had to start all over again. In 2009, Evo Morales was re-elected president, receiving 64.08% of the vote, and the Socialist Movement won more than two-thirds of the seats in the National Congress, but the tireless American political strategists did not give up, consistently and purposefully moving towards their goal (there is something for this learn from them).
In 2014, Evo Morales was re-elected for the third time, receiving 61.36% of the vote, and the Socialist Movement again won more than two-thirds of the seats in the National Congress. In an interview on Russian TV, Evo Morales once said: “Imagine: as soon as the US ambassador was expelled, all the conspiracies against my government fell apart. There are no coups where there is no US ambassador. In Latin America, we have seen this. ” By organizing and carrying out an armed rebellion and establishing a regime of total terror in Bolivia, the United States did everything to refute this assertion and prove: the "embassy of hell" is open as long as there is an American presence. In any of its manifestations.
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