The Bolivian President, Evo Morales, has stated he is prepared to defend "with weapons" an special attack of the US "empire"against his country, Cuba or Venezuela. Morales declared that in his speech of hommage to Ernesto Ché Guevara in the 78º anniversary of his birth, in a meeting in the Bolivian village of La Higuera, where the Argentinian-Cuban guerrilla man was executed in 1967."Now the people donot rise their weapons against the Empire", said referring tohisvictory last december and his different way of fighting than that of the Che. "What we are seeing now is that the Empire rises his weaponsagainst the people. If they did that to Cuba, Venezuela or Bolivia, weare ready to confront them and to defend it with weapons the countryand the natural resources and other social transformations", he warned..
Morales, dispuesto a defender 'con armas' un ataque del 'imperio' | elmundo.es
Well, I have only heard of a video-game which was about US intervention in a country similar to Venezuela…
Evo Morales will attend the Andean Bloc meeting, but Hugo Chávez won't. HT: Fausta, [who also writes in the same post about the new Caribbean market for drugs].
About Hugo Chávez, The American Thinker is publishing a review, about the Russian selling weapons to Venezuela. Publius Pundit also writes about this subject, who also reports about Chávez's ideas about free press:
“They hide behind a supposed freedom of speech,'’ said Chavez,who was wearing a green army uniform and red beret. “I don’t care what the oligarchs of the world say. We’veshown that we aren’t authoritarian or arbitrary.'’
Also Chávez is sending troops to Bolivia, because of the rumours that Bolivian military was favourable to US and were having contact with US representatives. In the coming days,Venezuelan soliders will arrive in Bolivia. Some Bolivian civilservants have declared that they would not let any one stole theirsoverugnity and that this Venezuelan are only the fulfillment of somecooperation treaties between Bolivia and Venezuela. Chávez has also saidin a public meeting that "US has prepared special operations group topursue and finish the presidential time of the Bolivian leader". But USAmbassador has denied those rumours, assuring that those were "accusations with no base". Theoposition thinks Morales wants to build his own Civil militiamen,imitating Chávez.
Bolivian Catholic Church has accused Morales of reviving a war between poor and rich people after a policeman died in a riot caused by people who, belonging to the Movement of PeopleWithout Roof in Oruro, had invaded a private estate previously fromwhich they were been evicted. Last week a gruop of ayorero Indians, armed with sticks and arrows, evicted from their houses another Indigene community who had begun to install themselves illegally in a estate who belonged to a ex-civil servant near Guarayos. Cardinal Terrazas said the country is coming to a sort of fight between brothers that divides Bolivian people who are killing each other for just a piece of land. But Morales has reinforced his own attacks against the political and economical sectors of the prosperous region of Santa Cruz, who are reinforcing their proposal to obtain autonomy from the rest of the country. He has repeated "We do not want autonomy for the bourgeoisie". So the owners of the real estate are calling for "defense commitees" to protect their propriety from official expropriation.
So, does Bolivia belong to Fidel really as this cartoon says? HT: Babalu Blog. At least, looks like it's going to belong to Venezuela…
Venezuela…
UPDATE: Ajopringue has more news about this.
Most of the owners of land who are in the 50 km area are little producers of Brazilian nationality. Bolivian Government is going to deprive them of their land BECAUSE the local legislation is against non-nationals having land there. So the crisis between Brazil and Bolivia can deepen even more after the nationalization of natural resources and Brazil has said that they does not trust La Paz. The Brazilian Government has asked Bolivia to start a billateral commission to analyse each Brazilian proprietor's case.
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