*sniff* that smell coming from Bolivia is the CIA playbook

Workers of the Huanuni mine clash with riot police in Caihuasi near Oruro August 5, 2008. The leaders of Venezuela and Argentina canceled a trip to Bolivia on Tuesday after protests roiled the country and two miners were killed before a recall vote facing President Evo Morales. The two deaths, and many injuries as well, occurred in clashes between police and workers near Bolivia's largest tin mine, Huanuni, where miners are demanding higher pensions.
REUTERS/La Patria newspaper (BOLIVIA)

Morales rallies disrupted ahead of Bolivia recall

TRINIDAD, Bolivia, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters on Wednesday mounted roadblocks and surrounded an airport, forcing Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales to abandon rallies days before a recall vote.

The protests came as Morales was forced to move independence day celebrations to his power base of La Paz because of threats of violence in the opposition-run city of Sucre.

Morales then flew on to the central town of Trinidad, but his plane did not touch down after protesters surrounded the airport. Instead, he returned to La Paz.

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Morales is at loggerheads with right-wing opposition provincial governors who are pushing for autonomy and blocking reforms he says will help the poor.

He and eight of Bolivia's nine provincial governors face the recall vote on Sunday, which he ordered hoping to undermine his opponents.

Morales is betting a victory will relaunch his nationalization and land redistribution policies and pave the way for a new constitution to empower Bolivian Indians.

Road blocks, opposition hunger strikes and other protests have been mounting. Opponents have described Morales as a "madman" and traitor. (With reporting by Carlos Quiroga, Writing by Simon Gardner, editing by Alan Elsner)


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http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN0627910720080807

"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street."

- Smedley Darlington Butler