Like Túpac Katari, indigenous Aymara leader more than 200 years ago, confronting the Spaniards, Evo Morales
was betrayed and ‘dismembered’ by his own people, recruited and paid by
the agents of the most destructive, nefarious and murderous dark elite
that governs and has governed for over two hundred years our planet, the
United States of America. With their worthless fiat-Ponzi-pyramid
money, the made-out-of-thin-air US dollar, they create poverty
throughout the globe, then buy off the weak and poor to plot against the
very leaders that have worked for years to improve their social
conditions.
It’s become a
classic. It’s being called a Color Revolution, and it’s been taking
place on all Continents. The list of victim-countries includes, but is
not exhaustive – Colombia, Honduras, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador,
Chile, Brazil, in some ways also Uruguay (the current left-leaning
government is powerless and has to remain so, otherwise it will be
“changed”… that’s the name of the game) – and now also Bolivia. – Then
there are Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan,
Indonesia; and the lawless rulers of the universe are attempting to
“regime change” North Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua –
and on a larger scale China and Russia (I just returned from China –
where the Government and people are fully aware what Washington’s
intentions are behind every move they make).
In Africa,
Africom, the US military Africa Command, buys off almost every corrupt
African leader put in place by Africa’s former and new European
colonialists, so they may continue sucking the riches out of Africa.
These African leaders backed by Africom keep the African population in
check, so they will not stand up. In case they won’t quite manage,
“they” created the fear-squad called, Boko Haram, an off-spring
of ISIS / IS – the Islamic State, created by the same creator, the CIA,
Pentagon and NATO. The latter represents the European US-puppet allies;
they keep raping Africa and reaping the benefits of her plentiful
natural resources, and foremost, make sure that Africans stay subdued
and quiet. Those who don’t may easily be “disappeared”. It’s Arica. But,
have “they” noticed, Africa is moving, is gradually waking up?
And yes, not
to forget, the “developed” and industrialized Europe, where
sophisticated “regime change” over the years has subdued a largely
well-off population, numbed and made apathetic by endless pro-capitalist
propaganda and consumerism – Germany, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden,
France, Italy, Spain – look what they have done to Greece! – Greece has
become a red-flag warning for every EU nation that may dare to step out
of US-dictated lockstep, of what might happen to them.
The list goes
on with Eastern European EU countries, mostly former Soviet republics or
Soviet satellites. They are EU members thanks to the UK, Washington’s
mole in the EU, or as I like to call it – the European non-union – no
Constitution, no solidarity, no common vision. They are all fiercely
anti-Russia and most are also anti-Europe, but are made to – and love to
eat and drink from the bowl of the EU-handouts, compliments of EU
taxpayers. That’s about the state of the affairs we are in. There is, of
course, much more coercion going on, but you get the picture. US
interference is endless, merciless, reckless, without scruples and
deadly.
Bolivia is
just the latest victim. The process of Color Revolution is always more
or less the same – a long preparation period. The coup d’état against
Evo has been under preparation for years. It began already before Evo
was first elected, when Washington realized that after the Bolivian
people’s purging of two of Washington’s imposed “stooges” Presidents, in
2003 and 2005, Bolivia needed a respite. But the empire never gives up.
That is a golden rule written in their unofficial Constitution, the
PNAC (Plan for a New American Century), the writing of which has begun
just after WWII, is regularly adjusted and updated, even name-changed
(from Pax Americana to PNAC), but is still very much alive and ticking.
The coup
against Evo Morales’ Government is not only because Washington does not
tolerate any socialist government, and least in its “backyard”, but also
– and maybe foremost – because of Bolivia’s riches in natural
resources, gas, oil, a long list of minerals and metals – and lithium,
the use of which is expected to triple over the next ten years, as it is
used in electric cars and batteries. And as we know from the rapidly
growing Green Movement, the future is out of hydrocarbon-driven into
electric cars. No matter how the electricity is produced and how much
environmental damage is done in producing the new flag, but still
individual ‘mobility’. As neoliberal economists would say, “that’s just
an externality”.
The first of
the two US-imposed Presidents at the turn of the century, was
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, also called “Goni”, who privatized Bolivia’s
rich hydrocarbon resources to foreign, mostly US, petro-corporations for
a pittance. He was “elected” in 2002 against the indigenous, Aymara
candidate, Evo Morales. When Goni was disposed of in a bloody people’s
coup (about 60 dead) in 2003, he was replaced by his Vice-President,
Carlos Mesa, the very key opponent of Evo’s, in the 20 October 2019
elections – who, following the same line of Goni’s privatization
policies, was also overthrown by the Bolivian people in 2005. This led
to a new election late in 2005 – and that’s when Evo finally won by a
landslide and started his Presidency in January 2006.
What he has
achieved in his almost 14 years of Presidency is just remarkable – more
than significant reductions of poverty, unemployment, analphabetism,
increase in health indicators, in national reserves, in minimum wages,
pension benefits, affordable housing – in general wellbeing, or as Evo
calls it, “living well”.
That’s when
Washington decided to step back for a while – and regroup, to hit again
in an appropriate moment. This moment was the election three weeks ago.
Preparation for the coup intensified a few months before, when Bolivia’s
Vice-President, Álvaro Marcelo García Linera, told the media that every
day there were reports that US Embassy agents were interfering in the
country’s internal and local affairs.
The
manipulated election in 2002 is recorded in an outstanding film, “Our
Brand is Crisis”, a 2005 American documentary by Rachel Boynton on
American political campaign marketing tactics in Bolivia by Greenberg
Carville Shrum (GCS) – James Carville was previously President Clinton’s
personal assistant –
the documentary.
Then, like
today, the coup was orchestrated by the CIA via the “legitimate” body of
the Organization of American States (OAS). The US Ambassador to the OAS
openly boasts paying 60% of OAS’ budget – “so, better don’t mess with
us”.
Less than a
week before the October 20 election, Carlos Mesa was trailing Evo
Morales with 22 against 38 points. Under normal circumstances it’s is
virtually impossible that in a few days a candidate picks up that much
of a difference. The election result was Mesa 37% and Morales 47% which
would give Morales a first-round win, as the winning candidate needs a
margin of ten points. However, already before the final tally was in,
the OAS, the US and the usual puppets, the European Union, complained
about election ‘irregularities’ – when the only irregularities were
manufactured in the first place, namely the drastic increase in Mesa’s
percentage from 22 to 37 points.
Evo declared
himself the winner on 20 October, followed immediately by violent
anti-Evo riots throughout the country, but mostly in the oil-rich Santa
Cruz area – home of Bolivia’s oligarchs and elite. The protests lasted
for about three weeks during which at least three people died, when last
Sunday, November 10, Evo was “suggested” by the military brass,
supported by the OAS (US) to step down with his entire entourage, or
else. He resigned, because he wanted the riots to stop and his
countrymen to continue living in peace. But violence hasn’t stopped, to
the contrary, the opposition has become fiercer in their racist attacks
on indigenous people, targeting them with live ammunition. The dead toll
as of today has reached at least 20.
President
Morales asked for, and was granted political asylum in Mexico. The
Vice-President, Alvaro Linera, and most of Morales’ cabinet members
followed him to Mexico. The President of the Senate, Ms. Adriana
Salvatierra, also of the MAS party, according to the Constitution, would
have been the legitimate interim-President. But she was also forced to
resign, and so were Victor Borda, the leader of the Chamber, and Rubén
Medinaceli, First Vice President of the Senate. They all had to resign.
In total some 20 high-ranking officials of Evo’s Government took refuge
in the Mexican Embassy in La Paz, before they flew to Mexico.
Evo has since
said he wants to return to Bolivia, to be there for the millions of his
supporters. Yes, still a sizable majority of Bolivians support Evo and
his Movement towards Socialism (MAS). There is a mass of peaceful
unarmed Evo supporting demonstrators, growing every day. They are being
brutally beaten by US trained and “bought” police and military forces.
Indeed, the commander of Bolivia’s armed forces, Williams Kaliman,
served in earlier days as a military attaché at the Bolivian Embassy in
Washington. During that time he was secretly ‘recruited’ to be trained
by what then was called the School of the Americas, and which is now the
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, located
at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. Apparently Kaliman was not the
only one of high-ranking Bolivian military and police officers having
been subjected to this torturer and coup plotter training.
On Tuesday, 12
November, an extraordinary session of both chambers (Deputies and
Senate) of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (Parliament) was
convened, to officially accept President Morales’ resignation, but the
representatives of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), which are
the majority in both chambers, did not attend because they were told by
the opposition that their safety and that of their families could not be
guaranteed. As a consequence, Parliament had suspended its session due
to the lack of quorum.
Nevertheless,
Jeanine Añez, an opposition senator, declared herself interim-President,
and even though her nomination is illegal and unconstitutional, the
Constitutional Court confirmed the legality of the transfer of power.
But who could blame the judges of the Constitutional Court? They want to
be on the right side of the fence, now that the Americans are soon
expected to rule the country. Ms. Añez is from the right-wing Social
Democrat Movement (not to confuse with MAS = movement towards
socialism), and she is known to be fiercely anti-Morales. If her
coronation looks and sounds like the one of Juan Guaidó in Venezuela, it
is because her self-nomination is like Juan Guido’s, a US-supported
farce. Washington has immediately recognized Ms. Jeanine Añez as
(interim) President of Bolivia. She, as well as Carlos Mesa, have been
groomed to become the next Bolivian leaders, when new elections are held
– probably sometime in January 2020. Especially, Carlos Mesa is well
known as a US-supporter from his earlier failed stint at the Bolivian
Presidency (2003 – 2005).
Earlier, Jeanine Añez, tweeted, “I
dream of a Bolivia free of satanic indigenous rites, the city is not
for the Indians who should stay in the highlands or the Chaco”. That
says it all, where Bolivia is headed, unless – unless another people’s
revolution will stop this nefarious course. Ms. Añez apparently has
since removed the tweet.
One of the internal drivers of the ‘golpe’ is Luis Fernando Camacho, a
far-right multi-millionaire, from the Santa Cruz region, where the US
have supported and encouraged separatism. Camacho, a religious bible
fanatic, received support from Colombia, Brazil and the Venezuelan
opposition – and, of course, he is the US henchman to lead the ‘coup’
internally.
As Max Blumenthal from “The Grayzone” reports,
“When Luis Fernando Camacho stormed into Bolivia’s abandoned presidential palace in the hours after President Evo Morales’s
sudden November 10 resignation, he revealed to the world a side of the
country that stood at stark odds with the plurinational spirit its
deposed socialist and Indigenous leader had put forward. – With a Bible
in one hand and a national flag in the other, Camacho bowed his head in
prayer above the presidential seal, fulfilling his vow to purge his
country’s Native heritage from government and “return God to the burned
palace.” Camacho added “Pachamama will never return to the palace,” referring to the Andean Mother Earth spirit. “Bolivia belongs to Christ.”
Still, there is hope. Bolivians are known to be sturdy and staunch
defenders of their rights. They have proven that best in the overthrow
of two foreign-imposed successive Presidents in 2003 and 2005, “Goni”
and Carlos Mesa respectively. They brought their Aymaran Evo Morales to
power in 2006, by an internationally observed, fully democratic
election.
There are other signs in Latin America that things are no longer the
way they used to be for decades. Latin Americans are sick and tired of
their status of US backyard citizens. There is movement in Brazil, where
Lula was just released from Prison, against the will of Brazil’s
fascist also foreign, i.e. US-imposed, Jair Bolsonaro. Granted, Lula’s
release from prison is temporary, but with the massive people’s support
he musters, it will be difficult for Bolsonaro to put him back in prison
– and preserve his Presidency.
Social upheavals in Chile for justice and equality, against a racist
Pinochet era Constitution, violently oppressed by President Piñera’s
police and military forces, have lasted for weeks and will not stop
before a new Constitution is drafted, in which the protesters demands
are largely integrated. That too is a sign for an awakening of the
people. And the enduring resistance against North America’s aggression
by Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, are all positive vibes for Bolivia –
not to be trampled over.
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Peter Koenig is an
economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and
environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World
Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of
environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe
and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; Greanville Post; Defend Democracy Press, TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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