Reply #15: The background is that the U.S. (Bushwhack) ambassador was funding/organizing white separatist...

[Peace Patriot]

...rioters and murderers right out of the U.S. embassy, and also using the DEA and the Peace Corps to collude with rightwing groups and for spying. The white separatists were trying to split off Bolivia's eastern provinces--including Bolivia's main gas reserves--into a separate state. This was in September 2008. Morales threw the U.S. ambassador, and the DEA, out of Bolivia, and meanwhile his leftist allies in other countries rallied for an emergency meeting of UNASUR--a prototype EU-style organization and common market--which had been formalized only a few months before, and they forged unanimous action in support of Morales. (That effort was led by the socialist president of Chile, Michele Batchelet, who even got Colombia to sign on. Batchelet took them on a tour of the Pinochet Museum in Chile!) Brazil and Argentina--Bolivia's chief gas customers--were also important. They made it clear that they would not trade with a separatist state. And several other actions were taken to bolster Morales, including Brazil and Venezuela pledging money to connect Bolivia to the new superhighway coming across the continent, and Batchelet settling a long dispute with Bolivia over Bolivia's access to the sea (--an action that the new rightwing president of Chile has already partially undone).

The white separatist riots were quelled. (They had not only trashed a number of government and NGO buildings, taken over an airport (preventing Morales' plane from landing), sabotaged a gas pipeline and beaten up a lot of Morales supporters, they open fired on 30 unarmed peasants). Bolivia, which had just elected Morales with over 60% of the vote, was thus able to hold a peaceful vote on the new Bolivian constitution, which also was passed by an overwhelming vote.

Did the U.S., frustrated by the unanimity in South America against U.S. interference, then turn to these scumbag assassins and their racist Bolivian allies to get back at Morales for surviving their assault, by killing him, and sending Bolivia into another U.S.-induced crisis?

It sure looks like it. But, as with the anti-Assange operatives in Sweden and so many dirty U.S. operations--the connectors may have disappeared (or been 'disappeared,' if they were low level). In short, it may be hard to prove it, even though it couldn't be clearer that the U.S. wanted Morales out, by whatever means.

The events around Morales throwing the U.S. ambassador out of Bolivia, and UNASUR's swift action, may be among the most important events of this century. Earlier in 2008, the U.S. had tried to instigate a war between Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. Latin American reaction was also swift in that case, and efforts led by Hugo Chavez headed off that war. (Lula da Silva called Chavez "the great peacemaker" in that context, and it must have been hard for Chavez because the U.S./Colombia had been especially treacherous toward him in the events leading up to a U.S./Colombian bombing/raid on Ecuador's territory.) Then, eight months later, came the U.S. effort to tear Bolivia to pieces. The unity of Latin America against U.S. interference was forged in these events. It was a truly historic moment. Never before had Latin American countries been able to pull together in this way, to protect each other.