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Evo Morales Calls for End of Coups d’Etat
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November 23th, 2010
Evo Morales Calls for End of Coups d’Etat
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia,
November 22. – Bolivian President Evo Morales calledtoday for an end to coups d’etat in Latin America and the world, most of them carried out with the protection of the United States.
Morales set out his convincing arguments while inaugurating the 9th Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, among whom was Robert Gates, from the United States, and recalled that in 2008 his government was the victim of these plans, organized by Washington’s representative, Philip Goldberg, whom he expelled from the country.
The Bolivian President asserted that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) supported conspiring groups, so they terminated their operations in the Andean nation.
The head of state recalled that so far these attempted coups have taken place in Venezuela (2002), Bolivia (2008), Honduras (2009) and more recently in Ecuador.
They succeeded only in Tegucigalpa, he clarified, when the US empire imposed anillegal and anti-popular government.
One of the challenges of this 9th Conference, he underlined, is to be able to contribute to put an end to coups d’etat in Latin America and the world. Thesemaneuvers, he added, are now aimed at destabilizing revolutionary governments.
Morales condemned the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1962 for the socialist nature of its Revolution, a measure that the new enemies of similar processes in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua are urging to adopt today.
In his opinion, the current doctrine of imperialism is against the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA), a mechanism for integration favoring membernations to complement each other in solidarity, rather than competitiveness.
(PL)