Will Trump go for Bolivia next?

KEN LIVINGSTONEFRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2019
Will Trump go for Bolivia next?

With Evo Morales campaigning for re-election in Bolivia later this year, the left must raise awareness of the threat of growing US hostility, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE

THE TRUMP administration is ramping up pressure on Bolivia, where Evo Morales is standing for re-election as president in 2019, along with current Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera as his running mate.

To give just one example, Trump recently called on multilateral development banks and the IMF not to fund loans to Bolivia until it fully complies (in US eyes) with the international Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. President Morales has denounced these drastic measures as “intimidation” and “blackmail,” while Garcia Linera argued the moves did not recognise the government’s efforts to curb both trafficking and child labour, with the latter having reduced dramatically under Morales’s presidency.

Trump’s administration has regularly attacked Morales, continuing the US’s hostility to him even before he was first elected.

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The language used by the US government against Bolivia increasingly echoes the way the Trump administration has talked about both Venezuela and Nicaragua, where its objective is “regime change.”

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