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Bolivia rejects US warning and will have dealings with whomever it wishes
Bolivian President Evo Morales delivered a blunt reply on Monday to visiting US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates's warning about dealings with Iran, saying Bolivia will ally with whomever it wants. Read full article
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Nov 22nd, 2010 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe he should stop begging the USA for U$ and special tax breaks on his exports. U$ comes with strings and Evo is a buffoon.
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently we put 30K Bolivians out of work when we pulled the tax exempt status, hahaha.
Apparently the loss of tax exempt status was compensated by heightened exports to the Mercosur countries plus Venezuela - a move designed by those countries to spare Bolivia from a US move that was clearly politically motivated.
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Let us review what happened. Mercosur is a common market arrangement of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, which Venezuela is joining. The presidents of these five countries announced that they would absorb all the exports of Bolivia, which had its preferential tariffs cancelled by the United States in September on the specious grounds that Bolivia was not doing enough to combat drug traffic.
”This action was endorsed by Unasur, the union of all 12 South American countries (plus Mexico and Panama as observers).”
http://www.iwallerstein.com/cuba-is-back/
(3)... And thats why:
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0US and U$ lose their strings and the Yanks are buffoons.
Apparently we put a lot of Latinamerica-Yankee “specialists” out of work when we pulled this compensatiom measure, hahaha.
Let's see how that works out for them in the long run. South Americans are not known for keeping their promises are they?
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0fred, why are you so worried about Latin America? Can you sleep at night? Are you sure you're not Mexican, Alfredo?
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not sure what would give you the impression I am worried about Latin America. I am not, as I explained before this amuses me. It is how I waste time waiting for, clients, dinner, appointments etc. I think most of the Latin posters here are a bit pretty stupid and a little nuts and it is fun to play with them.
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like you Xbox, you are dumb as they come and possibly crazy so it fun to respond and see where the lunacy takes me.
so would there be a reason why they are being friendly with the IRANIANS , and this chaves guy, perhaps something is in the wind ?
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bolivia's president is right........it's no one else's business who Bolivia has agreements & alliances with.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cher Isolde
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Principles are nice but.......better be careful with whom you support as a British Malvinera…..
Do you know the recent history of Bolivia?
A minority group of rich selected “withe” Bolivians tried to split the Country in two some years ago….
They wanted to seize the Oil Rich Lowlands area, deport the “Indians” to the Highlands and create a “Cozy” little new “Orderly Country” backed by a “Defence Treaty” with the USA
Any bells ringing?
Nope.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe they wouldn't have considered leaving if Evo would have kept his grubby hands off their private property. He was trying to steal (nationalize) it to give to the lazy Indians who live the mountains.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW Think they have large natural gas reserves not oil, do you know the difference? Your country is living on their gas now you would think you would know that.
“Your country is living on their gas now you would think you would know that.”
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Braking News! http://www.nosis.com.ar/SitioNosisWeb/ultimas-noticias-principal/46541/cuantifican-importantes-reservas-de-gas-no-convencional.aspx
@fredbdc
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”He was trying to steal (nationalize) it to give to the lazy Indians who live the mountains.”
The white revolt was made in response to taxes on gas natural exports, a necessary move to increase federal government revenues destined to implement the social programs he was elected for.
“They must give back the money they took from us,” he told a cheering crowd, which included members of the Quechua and Aymara tribes. “We will retroactively investigate all the big fortunes, and the corrupt are now trembling with fear.” Evo
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As in all Latin American countries they try to change the laws based on a false social engineering (re-distributive) concept that drives the wealth and production out of the country. Obama tried to do it here and was slapped down. Too bad Evo, Chavez and CFK don't get the same treatment.
It's very funny that the US would question Teheran's motives after the US's incredible history of supporting dictators and interfering in Latin America politics for its corporate interests.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0¿Can you say United Fruit?
Those are strong quotes, but it's very hard to know what they mean, if no context is given. How does Morales intend to get back the money his people supposedly lost to the elite? By means of a radical redistribution of private property, by nationalizing rich Bolivians' possessions, by means of increased taxes to allocate resources to welfare programs? If I had to guess, I'd choose the last option, for - in spite of Morales' bloated rhetoric - I've never heard that anything as radical as the first two options had recently taken place in Bolivia.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That Morales has a redistribution policy, I don't doubt. But so does Colombia's right-wing government and most countries in W. Europe. Yet we don't see anyone in those places pushing for secession, much less attempting a massacre of the population benefited by such programs.
the Morales government is preparing the second (or third) Land Reform in Bolivian history, 4.5 million hectares (about 17,375 square miles - the size of the states of the state of Massachusetts and New Jersey combined) are to be redistributed to the indigenous poor, the same folks who are now eking an existence in the communities such as the one seen above, or are just about ready to abandon their minifundios in the altiplano.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Other than property rights being obliterated, what worries me are the upcoming decreases in national food production once the fields targeted for reform are fractioned redistributed. Not to say anything about the actions that the current legal owners could take. Should we prepare ourselves for land reform a la Zimbabwe?[4]
There are lots of secession movements in Europe largely due to redistribution of wealth through taxation such as in Spain and Belgium. Who is to say when the violence will start, maybe when Spain has to ask for a bailout. We will see.
thank you Cher Think for your information re Bolivia. l admit l know very little about Bolivian demographics & politics. l had sympathy for the Bolivians because it seemed that a larger country was trying to order them around & control them, much like Argentina would love to do in the Falklands. l will comment no longer on the Bolivian situation but just observe.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Je vous en prie.
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