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Headlines : International

Summary:

If the United States intends to maintain their hegemonic dominance over Latin America, they are going to have to take action. Coups against democratically elected Latin American governments is a specialty of U.S. intelligence agencies. We can expect to see an increase of U.S. sponsored counter-revolutionary & counter-insurgency operations. Manufactured factionalism and conflict is another specialty of U.S. intel.

Watch your backs, brothers and sisters of the south!

*Also See: Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela will assist Bolivia:* Hugo Chávez declared that the three countries are preparing an urgent program to assist the new president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. Chavez said he wanted something on paper by Sunday (January 22), in time for Morales’ inauguration.

Revolution in the Andes: Fidel Castro’s prophecy has at last been fulfilled as Bolivia joins Latin America’s ‘axis of good.’

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Mark Weisbrot
Republished from AlterNet

Bolivia's Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.

Evo Morales’ election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.-sponsored attempts to eradicate the production of coca. He has talked about nationalizing the natural gas resources now owned by foreign corporations. “We’re not just anti-neoliberal, we’re anti-imperialist in our blood,” he proclaimed at a recent campaign rally. These things will be more than enough to ensure that he does not get a fair hearing here in the United States.

But we would do well to step back from the politics for a moment and look at this election in economic terms. This explains a lot what is happening in Bolivia, and indeed across most of the region. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America – its GDP (or annual income) per person is only $2,800, as compared to $8,200 for the Latin American region and $42,000 in the United States.

Bolivia has also been subject to IMF agreements almost continuously (except for eight months) since 1986. And it has done what the experts from Washington have wanted, including privatizing nearly everything that…

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