Kryztian
7th October 2015, 14:02
Bolivia is calling for an investigation as to whether the USA planned to overthrow their government or assassinate their president, Evo Morales, in 2008, based on documents WikiLeaks published in its new book, “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire.”
Bolivia to Investigate Alleged US Plot to Kill Evo Morales
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bolivia-to-Investigate-US-Plans-to-Topple-Kill-Evo-Morales-20151004-0015.html
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1931-the-wikileaks-files
Morales came to power in 2005 and ticked off the powers of Washington D.C. by nationalizing the hydrocarbon industry, making itself less reliant on the IMF and cultivating ties with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Morales also managed to alienate some leaders in the “Media Luna” departments (eastern, low lying provinces) who would no longer make easy money on natural gas reserves due to the nationalization, and Wikileaks cables (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08LAPAZ1931_a.html) indicate that opposition leaders were in talks with the U.S. about an overthrow of the Morales government.
Another Wiki-leaked document (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08LAPAZ2083_a.html) shows that the U.S. was preparing for a coup and the death of Morales, even though an opposition coup had no chance of succeeding without outside help.
The Latin America WikiLeaks Files
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-intervention/?curator=MediaREDEF
It is interesting to note that the situations that propelled Morales’s political career trace back to U.S. intelligence community, the World Bank, and the corporatocracy connected to it. The World Bank, stating that most third world countries had too much corruption in their water companies, and demanded that if Bolivia wanted loans, it would have to privatize its water companies, which it did, and which meant that a minimum wage worker would have to spend half a years wages to get a water hook-up, while consumers in had their water bills double in one year when a subsidiary of the Bechtel Corp. took over their water supply. (If you don’t see the significance of how Bechtel relates to the World Bank and the U.S. national security state, I highly recommend John Perkin’s book “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”) Morales was a key figure in the protests against these water companies and getting them to re-nationalize the water companies again.
It is pretty clear that Evo Morales has threatened some long term agendas and has found some peaceful solutions to thwarting them.
The Politics of Water in Bolivia
http://www.thenation.com/article/politics-water-bolivia/
2000 Cochabamba protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests
Bolivia to Investigate Alleged US Plot to Kill Evo Morales
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bolivia-to-Investigate-US-Plans-to-Topple-Kill-Evo-Morales-20151004-0015.html
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1931-the-wikileaks-files
Morales came to power in 2005 and ticked off the powers of Washington D.C. by nationalizing the hydrocarbon industry, making itself less reliant on the IMF and cultivating ties with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Morales also managed to alienate some leaders in the “Media Luna” departments (eastern, low lying provinces) who would no longer make easy money on natural gas reserves due to the nationalization, and Wikileaks cables (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08LAPAZ1931_a.html) indicate that opposition leaders were in talks with the U.S. about an overthrow of the Morales government.
Another Wiki-leaked document (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08LAPAZ2083_a.html) shows that the U.S. was preparing for a coup and the death of Morales, even though an opposition coup had no chance of succeeding without outside help.
The Latin America WikiLeaks Files
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-intervention/?curator=MediaREDEF
It is interesting to note that the situations that propelled Morales’s political career trace back to U.S. intelligence community, the World Bank, and the corporatocracy connected to it. The World Bank, stating that most third world countries had too much corruption in their water companies, and demanded that if Bolivia wanted loans, it would have to privatize its water companies, which it did, and which meant that a minimum wage worker would have to spend half a years wages to get a water hook-up, while consumers in had their water bills double in one year when a subsidiary of the Bechtel Corp. took over their water supply. (If you don’t see the significance of how Bechtel relates to the World Bank and the U.S. national security state, I highly recommend John Perkin’s book “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”) Morales was a key figure in the protests against these water companies and getting them to re-nationalize the water companies again.
It is pretty clear that Evo Morales has threatened some long term agendas and has found some peaceful solutions to thwarting them.
The Politics of Water in Bolivia
http://www.thenation.com/article/politics-water-bolivia/
2000 Cochabamba protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests