Evo Morales to BushCo: The United States and its sham War on Drugs can kiss my ass.....

via CanadaEast:



Bolivian president Evo Morales suspends U.S. anti-drug efforts
Published Saturday November 1st, 2008

Carlos Valdez And Associated Press


LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended U.S. anti-drug operations as Washington's relations with his leftist government spiral downward.

Morales accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of espionage and funding criminal groups trying to undermine his government.

He announced the indefinite suspension while declaring that his government has eradicated more than 5,000 hectares of illegally planted coca so far this year.

That's the minimum required under a 1988 Bolivian law passed under U.S. pressure.

Coca is the raw material for cocaine, but Bolivians use the small green leaf in its less-potent natural form as a traditional tea or for chewing.

Bolivia-U.S. relations have deteriorated in recent months as Morales's government limited DEA activities.

Bolivia later expelled the U.S. ambassador over charges of spying and involvement in anti-government protests in the eastern lowlands. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/467611

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K&R

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i am really sorry relations between our countries have come to such a pass but, really, bush is just such an ass and so unreasonable that i can't say i'm in the least bit surprised

he's the first of many world leaders to tell the DEA to go pound sand.

Next to the war on Iraq, the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" is the biggest war profiteer/police-state boondoggle ever conceived. It is the fallback boondoggle for whenever the other Forever War takes a holiday for a year or two, and a major contributor to the Financial 9/11 the Bushwhacks just pulled off: four simultaneous wars--the war on Iraq, the war on Afghanistan, the war on "terror" and the "war on drugs"--with multiple tax cuts for the rich, and for the traitorous outsourcers of jobs and manufacturing--so that all four wars are paid for by working people and the poor, who will be paying for this unto the 7th generation. The Bushwhacks are larding Colombia alone with $6 BILLION for the "war on drugs," with no impact on the cocaine reaching our streets, and with rightwing death squads, closely tied to the Colombian military and government, murdering hundreds of union leaders, small peasant farmers, political leftists, their children, human rights workers and journalists, and running their own drug operations, while pretending to fight it.

And that's just Colombia. Then there's Peru, and Mexico, and dozens of other countries where billions of our tax dollars are being used to support rightwing governments, militarize societies and oppress the poor.

In South America, one country after another is rejecting this horribly corrupt U.S. interference. Ecuador is kicking the U.S. military base out of the country, when it's lease expires next year. That base at Manta, Ecuador, has been used to spy on South American countries, and to directly participate in Colombia's bombing/raid on Ecuador earlier this year, which almost started a war. Paraguay's new president has said he wants the U.S. military out of his country. The president of Brazil has said that he considers the Bushites' reconstitution of the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean to be a threat to Brazil's coastal oil reserves, and it is obviously a threat to Venezuela's Zulia oil coast, where fascists have been plotting in insurrection, like the one the Bushwhacks instigated recently in Bolivia. to secede from Venezuela and take the oil with them.

The U.S. "war on drugs" is not only an horrendously costly boondoggle, it provides military bases and surveillance for WAR PLANNING, and for destabilizing and toppling democratic governments. And the South Americans know perfectly well that this is one purpose of it. Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, said he would agree to U.S. boots on Ecuadoran soil when the U.S. permits Ecuador to put military base in Miami. How absurd is that, eh? "Enough of this crap!" is the predominant view in South America. They are pursuing a sensible drug policy, which makes a distinction between coca leaves and cocaine, and which is aimed at stopping drug lords, gangs and weapons trafficking, not criminalizing, punishing and oppressing the poor. We should do the same here. It shouldn't BE a war. It should be a healing. And I would go further: legalize all recreational drugs, take the profit out of it, and that will be that. No more gangs. No more drug-related crime. The "war on drugs" is the stupidest fucking policy ever designed by government to line the pockets of fascists!

Homunculus Coke Head Furious At Evo. “No More Fronts” He Says

“That’s it man,” Bush said, finishing up a line off the glass dining room table. “I’ve had it with Morales. Sure, he gets good shit, but I’ve made up my mind. He’s cut off!”
“He means it too,” Ted Haggard said from the couch. “Man, Karzai was his BITCH and he cut him off! After this, he’s going to switch to crystal – American shit – that’s how serious this is... But, that's for the best, I think. I've got connections.”


Okay, couldn’t resist. Here’s the real story about Bolivia being added to America’s narcotic's blacklist of drug producing countries. It seems that the list keeps growing, money keeps being thrown at the drug war, freedom here is restricted, indigenous people suffer and the drugs keep coming anyway.

Great system:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush expressed deep worries in a report out Tuesday about Afghanistan's war on illegal drugs and added Bolivia to a narcotics blacklist that already included Myanmar and Venezuela.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jq7nld...

(I liked it then, appropriate now.)

The so called 'war on drugs' in our hemisphere has led to more drugs and druggists and an unbelievable increase in deadly weapons on our shores.
My colleague in criminology says we now define a failed state as one where the druggists control the politicians and a successful one where politicians control the druggists. That's the legacy from Reagan to Bush II.

you'll discover you're going to have a lot of reading to do. It's just HUGH!111!!1!!11! It could probably involve a lot of your cold winter evenings, for sure.

Here's one quick grab, looking at "Klaus Barbi" (a German WWII Nazi who moved to South America) Bolivia right-wing cocaine:

Dark Side of Rev. Moon (Cont.): Drug Allies
(Posted in 1997)
By Robert Parry

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In 1966, the Asian league evolved into the World Anti-Communist League with the inclusion of former Nazis from Europe, overt racialists from the United States and "death squad" operatives from Latin America, along with more traditional conservatives. Moon's followers played important roles in both organizations, which also maintained close ties to the CIA.

South American Drugs
Meanwhile, after World War II, South America was becoming a crossroads for Nazi fugitives and drug smugglers. Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyons, earned his living in Bolivia by selling his intelligence skills, while other ex-Nazis trafficked in narcotics. Often the lines crossed.

In those years, Auguste Ricord, a French war criminal who had collaborated with the Gestapo, set up shop in Paraguay. Ricord opened up French Connection heroin channels to American Mafia drug kingpin Santo Trafficante Jr., who controlled much of the heroin traffic into the United States. Columns by Jack Anderson identified, Ricord's accomplices as some of Paraguay's highest-ranking officers.

Another French Connection mobster, Christian David, relied on protection of Argentine authorities. While trafficking in heroin, David also "took on assignments for Argentina's terrorist organization, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance," Henrik Kruger wrote in The Great Heroin Coup. During President Nixon's "war on drugs," U.S. authorities smashed this famous French Connection and won extraditions of Ricord and David in 1972.

But by then, powerful drug lords had forged strong ties to South America's military leaders. Other Trafficante-connected groups, including right-wing anti-Castro Cubans in Miami, eagerly filled the drug void. Heroin from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia quickly replaced the French Connection heroin that had come mostly from the Middle East.

During this period, the CIA actively collaborated with right-wing army officers to oust left-leaning governments. And amid this swirl of anti-communism, Moon became active in South America. His first visit to Argentina was in 1965 when he blessed a square behind the presidential Pink House in Buenos Aires. He returned a decade later and began making high-level contacts in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay.

More:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon6.html

Next, from that list, a video you will want to check:

The 1980 Bolivian "cocaine coup" was financed by wealthy ranchers and drug lords under Roberto Suarez Gomez, a former cattleman who had become Bolivia's top cocaine baron. His cousin, Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, was the coup's most important military contact. The two men gave General Luis Garcia Meza a bribe of $1,300,000 to lead the operation. Suarez Gomez was impressed with the paramilitary skills of a mysterious German businessman named Klaus Altmann. Altmann displayed such an affinity for intelligence work and interrogation techniques that on Suarez's recommendation he was given a leadership role in the Bolivian Army. Altmann in turn hired two young Italians, Pierluigi Pagliai and Stefano Delle Chiaie, to help plan the coup. Assisting Altmann was a group of mercenaries and former Nazis known as the Fiancés of Death. On July 17, 1980, the "Cocaine Generals" seized power. Within months it was learned that Pagliai and Delle Chiaie were right-wing P-2 terrorists with suspected kills on three continents, and the mysterious Klaus Altmann was none other than fugitive Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyons! Barbie, who had sent hundreds of Jews to their deaths, had avoided prosecution when Americans in occupied Germany recruited him as an informer in 1947 and engineered his escape. Barbie was extradicted to France, tried, and convicted. Pagliai was killed when international authorities tried to abduct him to stand trial in Italy for the P-2 ordered Bologna train bombing, but Delle Chiaie escaped the dragnet and fled to Argentina. In Bolivia, a "reform coalition" of cocaine growers and military men ousted Garcia Meza 13 months after the cocaine coup.

http://www.blinkx.com/video/bolivian-cocaine-coup/32sTT-I1766L1EdyKsLqpw

It's 32 minutes.

Next:

THE NAZI COCAINE CONNECTION



German SS officer and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie

THE mild-looking man who took his dog for a walk each morning had a bearing of a provincial bank manager. Only a few people knew him in Cochabamba, where the climate is ideal and cool.

He enjoyed living quietly with his family in this Bolivian city. Here wealth was just a way of life. In a country where poverty sat alongside huge riches, Cochabamba might have been made of gold. New cars jostled on the streets, expensive restaurants were everywhere, luxury apartments were springing up almost daily and the nightlife was the most exciting in the country.

The reason? Cocaine. And one of the main architects of the city's success was the quietly spoken man strolling with his black Labrador. Passing him, you would never have guessed that this was Klaus Barbie - former SS Officer, fanatical Nazi and a Gestapo chief whose brutality had earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Lyon".

And more than that - he was a key player in the country's multi-billion pound cocaine industry. That link alone was enough to stop actress Dame Helen Mirren from ever snorting cocaine in the Eighties. In a new interview, she said: "I saw how my little sniff at a party had an absolute direct line to this horrible man in South America and from that day I never touched cocaine again."

But there is far more to the story of Klaus Barbie and cocaine than just that. Amazingly, he was also a vital part of America's fight against communism and was an important agent for the US spy organisation the CIA, which used cocaine as a weapon in the Fifties.

More:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:KGLH0TKX6RcJ:https://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/60629+Bolivia+Klaus+Barbi+Cocaine+right-wing&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Next:

The Republicans, Moonies and the Washington Times

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Limited investigations of Moon’s organization have revealed large sums of money flowing into the United States mostly from untraceable accounts in Japan, where Moon had close ties to yakuza gangster Ryoichi Sasakawa. Former Moon associates also have revealed major money flows from shadowy sources in South America, where Moon built relationships with right-wing elements associated with the cocaine trade, including the so-called Cocaine Coup government of Bolivia in the early 1980s.

More:
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/wwwboard/messages/4561.html

You can see the pattern forming from HERE! That's just the first few entries in a casual, very easy search.

Clearly there's enough material to keep anyone busy for AGES.

There was no cocaine in Jamaica prior to 1977/78. Uncle Henry paid Manley a visit in 75 and then all hell broke lose.

add year.

You'd think it takes super-human strength to keep from laughing for people like _{George W. Bush} when they discuss this country's "war on drugs" in public.