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WikiLeaks: US Government Plotted To Assassinate Bolivian President
Submitted by MintPress News Desk via TheAntiMedia.org,
Cables leaked by U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning reveal an apparent plot by the U.S. government to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales and overthrow his administration.
The cables in question were published in August in “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire,” a book in which multiple journalists along with Julian Assange analyze the contents of the treasure trove of cables Manning provided to WikiLeaks in 2010.
The book devotes a section to what “The WikiLeaks Files” contributors Alexander Main and Dan Beeton call “the day-to-day mechanics of Washington’s political intervention in Latin America.”
According to the cables, the plot to orchestrate a coup or carry out an assassination against Morales came after years of resistance by the Morales government to the United States’ Latin American agenda.
TeleSUR, a Latin American TV network, reported last week that the Bolivian government is continuing a formal investigation into the allegations, despite denials by U.S. government officials:
“In a strongly worded statement the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia said, ‘The government of the United States was not involved in any conspiracy, attempt to overthrow the government of Bolivia or assassinate President Morales. This kind of unfounded allegations does not contribute to improving bilateral relations.’”
These allegations of a U.S. plot mirror recent revelations that the DEA is targeting the Morales government with secret drug indictments after his administration kicked the U.S. agency out of Bolivia to pursue their own, locally-oriented and highly successful cocaine-reduction strategies.
Contrary to the official denials, the WikiLeaks cables show how the U.S. escalated attempts to put pressure on Morales and his government over several years. According to Main and Beeton’s analysis of the cables, pressure on Morales began soon after his 2005 election as part of a wave of left-leaning candidates winning elections in Latin America. But Morales resisted U.S. directives and continued with his plans to nationalize the fossil fuels industry and move away from dependence on foreign aid and international loans.
The cables suggest that starting from 2007 the U.S. government began providing aid to the “Media Luna” region of Bolivia, which is controlled by Morales’ opposition:
“A USAID report from 2007 stated that its Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) ‘ha[d] approved 101 grants for $4,066,131 to help departmental governments operate more strategically.’ Funds also went to local indigenous groups that were ‘opposed to Evo Morales’ vision for indigenous communities.’”
A year later, the residents of Media Luna were rebelling against the Morales government in clashes that led to 20 deaths. A coup seemed imminent, and the opposition had the support of U.S. officials:
“[T]he United States was in regular communication with the leaders of the separatist opposition movement, even as they spoke openly of ‘blow[ing] up gas lines’ and ‘violence as a probability to force the government to . . . take seriously any dialogue.’”
While officially supporting the Morales administration in public statements, the cables show the U.S. government preparing “a plan for immediate response in the event of a sudden emergency, i.e. a coup attempt or President Morales’ death.”
Tensions only eased as other South American governments declared their support for Bolivia’s democratically-elected government.
Juan Ramon Quintana, Bolivia’s minister of the presidency, emphasized the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia’s direct role in the plot, according to teleSUR:
“In 2007, the embassy of the United States installed a Center of Operations in order to execute a civil-prefectural coup to apply plan A, which was the coup, and plan B, which was the assassination.”
TeleSUR noted that, “Relations between the U.S. and Bolivia have been strained since 2009, when President Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador from the country for supporting [an] opposition-led conspiracy against him,” a move that led then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to accuse the president of “fear-mongering.”
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dont fuck with the Zio-neo-cons
The US gov't will kill its own people. Arm rebels in a natural resource rich country on behalf of a third party. It's up to the people the inform each other about the atrocities.
“In a strongly worded statement the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia said, ‘The government of the United States was not involved in any conspiracy, attempt to overthrow the government of Bolivia or assassinate President Morales. This kind of unfounded allegations does not contribute to improving bilateral relations.’”
So Manning is in prison for what then? Spreading "conspiracy theories"...?
"I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against the principles of liberty." - TJ
Sounds like a death sentence to me.
Bares repeating....."Never believe anything until it has been officially denied".
Hello? US has a plan stuffed somewhere in the pentagram to assassinate every world leader.
OMG what a load of dreck! Seriously, adults think socialist Obama has an interest in slaying socialist Morales? When engaging in wild fantasies it probably would be easier to sell by picking a proper villian (like Putin) and have it spun by somebody other than an attention-seeking hermaphrodite.
Try again please.
...and move away from dependence on foreign aid and international loans.
this is all you need to know as to why he had to go. Didn't want the banksters sucking his country dry.
Didn't this Morales nationalize natural gas in Bolivia and become a BFF of that paragon of truth, justice and the socialist way tHugo Chavez?
Getting rid of the bankers sounds great...did he do it?
Pay attention to dates, kralizec. This happened in 2007. That would have been Bush, the junior. Please, try to keep up.
2007, I have enough trying to keep shit straight from yesterday, who gives a crap about 2007? But in any case yeah, whack 'em. Going up against bankers is just crazy. Weird that a crony/socialist would bother...don't they need them to finance their promises and enslave new enablers? Crony capitalist...socialists...what's the difference.
@The Juggernaut
"And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, [...]"
Just as if Europe is the source of all the US' diplomatic and military headaches.
Come on man, grow up!
The U.S. NEEDS to intervene, dictate, assasinate, overthrow, bomb, etc., just to be able to trade 'freely' with the rest of the world, while dictating the lowest possible price. Absent all these efforts to guarantee 'free' trade, the US would be gone before year's end.
He got 10 years hard time for a bad bikini wax.
Either way, at this point anyone not seeing Western governments as the problem needs to tun off dancing with the stars and throw their anti depressants out.
Oooooh snap, that super good burn just got you placed on a list of some sort. No doubt about it. Drone coming to your house tonight. Dats freedom and if you disagree, they'll kill you.
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bolivia? what the fuck can you stupid jews suck out of bolivia? leave them alone
I'm guessing deep storage AU/AG
nnnnnn, Bolivia now produces more cocaine by some measures than Colombia. Control of this trade is worth billions.
Got any?
Like the Afghans, the minute the local leaders dare interfere with the international drug trade, they seem to become enemy number one.
Imagine that. Like banking, the (western) global system is built on crime and criminal (western) armies to back it up.
Bolivian products are highly sought after by Hollywood moguls.
OBama dont keel, he only love.
Secret that Obama is hiding from American people!
http://motivationdose.com/is-america-babylon/
The Bolivian govt is reducing cocaine production. Tue CIA cannot abide this.
Drugs/drug $. Lifeblood of the modern multinational bank, see esp. HSBC.
Resistance to TPTW.
They rely on the drug trade to finance their black ops - and have for years.
suck out of bolivia?
Lithium?
Japs got to it first. Ruining some beautiful areas for it.
The shorter list would be those world leaders that the US/Israel hasn't tried to kill or blackmail.
what else is new.....
dying empire....
the shame of the globe.......
Confirmation there are very robust resources of some sort and advanced technolgies in Bolivia.
Hand carved flutes and hand woven ponchos I guess...
Just kick out the US embassy staff .
The US Embassies in every country in the world are Termite Colonies created to eat away at the local order.
They serve no other purpose
This is the reason "He blames Captalism for climate change"
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/bolivia-morales-blames-capitalism-...
OFF WITH HIS FUKKING HEAD!!!
Who exactly has ever sent a 'cable' after 1960?
Arrest the US embassy staff, find the chief of station (CIA) and prosecute the living shit out of him in a very public trial. Oh, and fuck diplomatic immunity. Assassination of a head of state is illegal under international law. These monsters need to be stopped from slinking into the shadows.
Didn't help Gaddafi or Hussein very much did it?
well said
the respect, or more accurately, the fear of the United States is exponentially falling. It was held up by military fear for a long time making Russia's move historically critical. The built up disgust for the murder and hypocrisy and theft will accellerate everyone's move.
You know what else is illegal under international law? Forcing down Evo's jet because you think Snowden's aboard.
America is ours bitchezz
North and South
Oligarchy, It's a big club and you're not in it. It's theirs, not "ours". Silly.
Par for the course
I am totally suprised we do not have a thread about Playboy not going to have nude pictures anymore.....I liked it when they removed the staples..but this...WTH
I'll read it for the new fancier paper stock.
Our government has become evil and corrupted.
Orginally the US was created to break away from the British. Now the US has become far worse than Britain in the 1700s.
Oh the irony; Hillary Clinton accusing someone of fear mongering......
Now your just fear mongering...or hating women or something....
But it didn't work...another "failure" on the part of State to add to a long list. Maybe there's something on Hillary's server relating to this. You know...that server that was "wiped" and "secure". Well it turns out the company doing both didn't know how to "wipe" it actually, but I'm sure they were real good at "securing" it. LMAO
USSA is not a nation, it is a sickness.
Flush the disgusting Saudi Mercan petroscrip blood-spattered toilet paper dollah and rid the planet of these psychopaths and finally close down the Anglozionzai Empire of Chao$!
So. Bolivia... Terrorist regime. The president of Bolivia, a mass murderering totalitarian?
What? Democratically elected you say? Successfully dealing with drug problems?
Is it just me or does America appear to be the embodiment of the Evil Empire?
That is par for the course. CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro 638 times:
For nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles have been trying to devise ways to assassinate Fidel Castro, who is currently laid low in Cuba following an operation for intestinal bleeding. None of the plots, of course, succeeded, but, then, many of them would probably be rejected as too fanciful for a James Bond novel.
Fabian Escalante, who, for a time, had the job of keeping El Commandante alive, has calculated that there have been a total of 638 attempts on Castro's life. That may sound like a staggeringly high figure, but then the CIA were pretty keen on killing him
On one occasion, a former lover was recruited to kill him, according to Peter Moore, producer of the new film. The woman was given poison pills by the CIA, and she hid them in her cold cream jar. But the pills melted and she decided that, all things considered, putting cold cream in Castro's mouth while he slept was a bad idea. According to this woman, Castro had already guessed that she was aiming to kill him and he duly offered her his own pistol. "I can't do it, Fidel," she told him.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/03/cuba.duncancampbell2
So the bodyguard says. How many attempts are confirmed?
Bogus claims, no one survives 638 assasination attempts.
US gov needs to be taken out... nuke the evil....
If "We the People" do not turn things around, that may be the world's only option.
Nukes primarily take out the innocent instead of the guilty. How about investing in something a little more selective?
Fifteen years after 9/11, some people FINALLY realize that the attackers could have done us all a great service if they'd just taken out a half-dozen more buildings in New York.
The only possible way out of this nightmare is to elect Donald Trump to the White House. I just get this feeling that he was never one of the "insiders" of the criminal banking cabal.
Why not Bernie Sanders instead? HE has been willing to send the banksters to jail and throw away the key since Day 1. Trump would just try to make a "deal" where they paid him a cool couple of billion to get off their case.
The USSA and it's C.I.A doing something like this?!
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that gambling is going on in here...
Your winnings sir.
US gov and CIA need a few missiles at them... blow these fuckers sky high once and for all!! don't forget Mossad!!
The world needs to unite against this evil .. Hang Bibi too
In fairness, their cocaine reduction strategies consist of moving the supply up their nose and trading it for currency.
The whistle is not the only thing Bradley likes to blow.
And yes. I refuse to call this asshole by his girl name. Because I identify him as a fucking traitor, not a chick.
You can go whistle Dixie jackass.
I'm sure Ms. Manning has no interest in being a "chick" for you, O Soul Of Arrogance. Her balls are still bigger than yours ever will be.
This guy stood up for Snowden also. Wasnt he on someplane that was rerouted in europe?
China + 77 issued a scathing statement regarding the interference with the Bolivian presidential jet as it returned from Moscow during the Snowden episode. There's that 'international law' thingie again...
President Morales is also the current(?) president of the China + 77 and spoke at COP 20 Peru on its behalf. He is very outspoken regarding climate change on behalf of Bolivia.
The DEA never seem to target the DEA wtih drug dealing enquiries do they?
Do that and coke imports would probably drop 10% at a minimum.
The world needs more Mannings, Assanges, snowdens.
These guys are the heroes blowing the whistle on muderous traitor treasonous govts.
Straight out of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins. Great book for those who are awake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
And how is this news? \deadpan Sarc
Yeah, telesur is a very reliable source. Not sure why Tyler continues to post articles from them, RT, and other "news" outlets whose organizing principle is criticizing the US.
Where are the links extolling the virtues of socialism from telesur?
Telesur is garbage. I have to agree with you there. They seem to love being a mouthpiece for the Venezuelan dictators. But the original cables to tell us something and we know the STATE in the US lies incessantly as well.
Edit: Oh, and they don't really "rely" on them...but try finding any real criticism of the US "government" (fixed that for you) in western "news" outlets. And then try catching a Leprechaun...it might be easier.
Your butthurt is noted, citizen.
"Not sure why Tyler continues to post articles from them, RT, and other "news" outlets whose organizing principle is criticizing the US."
Ah, another one who can't take the truth.
Tired of being ashamed of your country? Turn against your government, petition, get your ass up and protest in the streets - anything non-violent will do, anything at all - but don't have it out with those who only tell the truth.
Perhaps as reliable as USSA propaganda? LOL
Wikileaks has a lot more credibility and a lot more material on this subject... for example:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07LAPAZ2949_a.html
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09LAPAZ163_a.html
etc... Search away! :-) https://search.wikileaks.org/advanced
Yes, they could get reliable news and insight from Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc. instead. 'Fair and balanced'.
Yes, they could get reliable news and insight from Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc. instead. 'Fair and balanced'.
Simplified, the US is trying to kill everyone and get away with it. Even some of it's own.
And then again this could just be posturing by Morales. He's currently just starting his third five year term as president and there are ongoing referenda seeking to allow him another 5 year term after this. What better way to win the referendum than to be a martyr. Seems that socialists want to be in power forever. By the way my wife is Bolivian.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
As if Henry "The Butcher of Chile" Kissenger didn't set the precedent on 9/11/1971.
USSA NeoCON SCUMMM* Doing What They Do Best!
(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem)
This is what Noah Chomsky said about Bolivia in 2009
Chomsky: I think the most democratic country in the world right now is Bolivia. So the United States is trying hard to undermine it. But if you think about what happened in Bolivia in the last ten years, it’s pretty astonishing. The most repressed population in the hemisphere (the indigenous population), which happens to be the majority, and has been totally marginalized for 500 years, ever since the Spanish, they managed to get themselves organized, active, and elected a president from their own ranks. Not some rich guy. They elected a poor farmer.
BIG SHOCK. BIG SHOCK! BIG SHOCK!! BIG SHOCK!!! BIG....
no, not really.
If you don't play the game and toe the line they send in the Ninjas and then they find someone who will.
If you are not compromised, controllable, or don't support their narrative, they will kill you.
You all crack me up!
Maybe you're not accustomed to Latin American populist leaders going on and on about CIA coups, and the like. Maduro says he's going to release proof about one every other week, and then doesn't. If you actually read the prosecutor's report, you'd see that even he doesn't claim US involvement.
What Telesur does is hit you with the over-the-top headline. They do it every day - like, "The anniversary of the CIA assasination of Che", which of course didn't happen. He was assassinated by the Bolivian miliary. Notice also the headline about Ukraine being responsible for the downing of the Dutch airliner, without a mention of the Dutch report on the same matter the same day.
They know their crackpot audience, and it is you.
US has been buggering Latin american politicians for 60 years. No surprise here.
Naturally, because the Bolivian government's successful interdictions are hamstringing CIA and DEA trafficking.
West has turned totally evil
WEST MUST BE DESTROYED