Bolivia bans U.S. anti-drug plane from flying over territory

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Bolivia bans U.S. anti-drug plane from flying over territory
www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-03 10:53:36

LIMA, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Bolivian government will not allow the aircraft of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to fly over the country, President Evo Morales announced Thursday.

Addressing a project-launching ceremony in Bolivia's southern Tarija province, Morales said that the U.S. DEA asked for permission to fly over Bolivian territory in a letter he received two days ago.

"I want to publicly tell ... that they cannot authorize the DEA to fly over Bolivian territory," Morales was quoted by state news agency ABI as saying Thursday.

Tension between Bolivia and the United States has been rising since Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador last month. Washington retaliated the following day by ousting the Bolivian envoy.



Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/03/content_10144383.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. Same info., from the A.P.: Report: Morales denies US request for anti-drug surveillance flights over

Report: Morales denies US request for anti-drug surveillance flights over Bolivian territory
By Associated Press
8:50 PM EDT, October 2, 2008

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) _ Bolivian President Evo Morales has rejected a request from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to fly anti-narcotics missions over the South American nation's territory, state media reported Thursday.

The Bolivian Information Agency said Morales instructed his government to deny a written request from U.S. officials for a surveillance flight.

"Two days ago I received a letter from the U.S. DEA asking a government institution for permission to fly over national territory," the agency quoted Morales as saying.

"I want to say publicly to our authorities: They are not authorized to give permission so that the DEA can fly over Bolivian territory."

More:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-lt-bolivia-us-drug-flights,0,3997066.story

[Nambe]

2. They just want to fly over the hemp festival.

They must make sure their kids don´t get tattoos again.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Bolivia rejects US drugs flight

Page last updated at 14:45 GMT, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:45 UK
Bolivia rejects US drugs flight

President Evo Morales has rejected a US request to fly anti-narcotics missions over Bolivia, state media has reported.

The Bolivian Information Agency said Mr Morales told officials to deny a request from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for a surveillance flight. It is the latest in a series of standoffs between the two countries.

Last month, the US government added Bolivia to a list of countries that it said had failed in their counter-narcotics obligations. Also last month, Mr Morales expelled the US ambassador, accusing him of supporting opposition protests. Washington denied the claim, and promptly expelled the Bolivian ambassador.

Last week, the US took initial steps to suspend trade benefits for Bolivia over what it said was the country's poor co-operation in fighting drug trafficking.

'No permission'

"Two days ago I received a letter... asking a government institution for permission to fly over national territory," the agency quoted Mr Morales as saying.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7651054.stm

[Peace Patriot]

4. The U.S. "war on drugs" is an assult on the sovereignty of Latin American countries,

and South America is starting to repel it, and it's interesting how that resistance is affecting even Corpo/fascist leaders like Calderon in Mexico, who demanded Mexican control of money and operations in the recent multi-billion dollar police/military U.S. "war on drugs" contribution to Mexico. He also recently said that individual marijuana and cocaine users should not be criminalized (anathema in Washington--if we are all not potential criminals, who can be planted with a joint and hauled into the "prison-industrial complex," then what are we?).

In Ecuador, the new leftist president pledged to evict the U.S. military from its "war on drugs" military base in Manta, Ecuador, when its lease expires early next year. (He said he would permit it to continue when the U.S. lets Ecuador put a military base in Miami!) And in Bolivia, small peasant farmers recently threw out U.S. "war on drugs" personnel for not helping small farmers, living in luxury and meddling in politics (on the fascist side). Bolivia's new leftist president--who recently won a referendum on his presidency with 67& of the votes--was originally the head of the small coca leaf farmers' union (and still is, actually), and makes an important distinction between the use of highly nutritious coca leaves for chewing and tea--a traditional indigenous medicine--and cocaine (the highly processed product that criminal drug cartels trade in). The U.S. "war on drugs" makes no such distinction, and, in Bushwhack control has, in any case, utterly failed to stop the cocaine trade--with the Bush Cartel likely profiting from it, as well as from the big Pharm/Chem contracts in toxic pesticides to eradicate small farmers...er, coca farms...and from the mind-bogglingly corrupt military contracts that it involves, for instance, $6 BILLION to Colombia, where death squads closely tied to the government and the military are running rampant, slaughtering union leaders, human rights workers and other leftists.

The Bushwhacks are scum here, and they are scum there. And everybody there knows it. They are also using "war on drugs" military capabilities to spy on leftist governments, and no doubt plot against them--including illegal flyovers of northern Venezuelan territory (where the oil is), and an illegal U.S./Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador earlier this year.

It's no wonder Morales doesn't want them flying over his country, where the U.S. ambassador was actively colluding with and funding the white separatists who, two weeks ago, went on a rampage of rioting and murder against the government and its majority indigenous supporters, in an effort to split off the gas/oil rich eastern provinces into a fascist mini-state in control of Bolivia's resources. THAT is what the Bushwhacks are using the "war on drugs" FOR.