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Headlines : InternationalHow an Election in Bolivia Could Hurt Big Business
This article summarizes the bourgeoisie’s opinion of the developments in Bolivia. Which is to say that they hope to corrupt Morales and lead him away from his radical program.
Morales would be well advised to keep the masses ready for battle. The voting booth is not the endpoint of their political hopes.
[Posted By ShadowUnit]Republished from Financial Times
Bolivians call it simply “the embassy”. From an ivory-coloured fortress on Avenida Arce near the centre of the capital La Paz, Washington operates – after Colombia – its second biggest mission in Latin America.
In the conspiratorial world of Bolivian politics, the US embassy is often portrayed as an omnipotent force, its tentacles reaching into every aspect of public decision-making. But if Evo Morales, the leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), becomes president after elections on Sunday, it will be an outcome so inimical to US interests that much of the myth of American dominance will be stripped away.
In 10 years Mr Morales, a protégé of Hugo Chávez, the radical populist leader of Venezuela who has become a bete noire for the Bush administration, has built MAS from a handful of deputies to the country’s principal political grouping. Now his likely accession threatens to frustrate the US’s three main policy objectives in Bolivia: democracy building, economic development and the eradication of coca, the raw material for cocaine.
The shock waves could be economic as well as political. Analysts believe that at least some of the global energy giants that have collectively invested $3.5bn (Ł2bn, €2.9bn) in the past decade to develop…
Posted by ShadowUnit
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Good governance goes into the abyss if Morales wins?
The US’s three main policy objectives in Bolivia is democracy building, economic development and the eradication of coca?
Listening to the demands of grassroots movements produces a “volatile and unpredictable political climate”?
This article sure is colored by the US neoliberal agenda for the american continent and the twisted political system of US-style “democracy”. I guess it’s what can be expected from the Financial Times.