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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 04:53 AM
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Bolivia alleges US role in violent jungle clash
Source: Associated Press

Oct 25, 1:18 AM EDT
Bolivia alleges US role in violent jungle clash

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- A top Bolivian official on Friday accused the United States of backing armed anti-government groups in a violent jungle clash that left 15 people dead last month, including 13 supporters of leftist President Evo Morales.

Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said that Bolivia would "denounce before the entire world" that the U.S. had "participated in the massacare" on Sept. 11 in the remote Amazonian province of Pando.

Quintana did not provide any evidence for the charge or elaborate on what he meant by the word "participate," alleging only that the U.S. "accompanied the criminal policies" of Pando's opposition governor, Leopoldo Fernandez, who has since been jailed for allegedly fomenting the violence.

Quintana also accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of unspecified "direct involvement" in the province.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_BOLIVIA_US_VIOLENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-25-01-18-34
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 06:04 AM
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1. Oh, those ace reporters at the Associated Pukes stride forth again with their
Edited on Sat Oct-25-08 06:05 AM by Peace Patriot
dirty rotten disinformation.

"Quintana did not provide any evidence for the charge or elaborate on what he meant by the word 'participate,' alleging only that the U.S. 'accompanied the criminal policies' of Pando's opposition governor, Leopoldo Fernandez, who has since been jailed for allegedly fomenting the violence."

The U.S. ambassador was meeting with these white separatists and fascist rioters, and doling out millions of our non-existent tax dollars to them--all documented. These alleged 'reporters' want to know what the word "participate" means? How about THEIR participation in Buswhack psyops?!

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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 06:20 AM
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2. They (corporate media) do this with all the leftist Latin American leaders. They spare no effort
attempting to ALWAYS portray them as undisciplined, stupid, emotionally overwrought, egocentric fools. Ugly pracise, actually very primitive, and it appears to work with a lot of stupid people!

People who go out of their way to read Latin American news are well acquainted with the information connecting Bush's ambassador Philip Goldberg to the separatist (racist) oligarchs.

Here's a reference from BoRev which touches on stories we have read elsewhere recently:
The Altiplano Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us

Just two weeks after US embassy staff were caught lying, gunslinging and whoring in Santa Cruz, Evo tells the ambassador to leave his country by sunup. Here's the Simon Romero version of events, which tragically ignores the part about lying, gunslinging and whoring, even though that's sort of the best part.

Thursday Morning Update: The LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and AP have all filed their stories this morning. All quote the US gov't saying the accusations of fostering separatist movements them are "baseless." None of them mention that the ambassador was caught, on tape, by Bolivian news crews, sneaking out of a midnight meeting with separatist leaders.
http://www.borev.net/2008/09/the_altiplano_aint_big_enough.html
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independentpiney Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:18 AM
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3. The US corp media can't tell the truth about Latin America
or Haiti because it would destroy so much of the American myth that people have been indoctrinated with their entire lives.
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