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June 17, 2006
Morales to defend with weapons Bolivia, Cuba and Venzuela from US
Topics: Latin America
The Bolivian President, Evo Morales, has stated he is prepared to defend "with weapons" a 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 78th anniversary of his birth, in a meeting in the Bolivian village of La Higuera, where the Argentinian-Cuban guerrilla was executed in 1967. "Now the people do not raise their weapons against the Empire", he said referring to his victory last december and his different way of fighting than that of the Che. "What we are seeing now is that the Empire rises his weapons against the people. If they did that to Cuba, Venezuela or Bolivia, we are ready to confront them and to defend it with weapons in the country and with natural resources and other social transformations", he warned..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 civil servants have declared that they would not let any one steal their soverignity and that this Venezuelan is only the fulfillment of cooperation treaties between Bolivia and Venezuela. Chávez has also said in a public meeting that "the US has prepared a special operations group to pursue and end the presidential term of the Bolivian leader". But the US Ambassador has denied those rumours, assuring that those were "accusations with no basis". The opposition thinks Morales wants to build his own Civil militiamen imitating Chávez.
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Posted by Eurabian at June 17, 2006 7:18 AM
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