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November 13, 2019
Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US militarys School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
Commanders of Bolivias military and police helped plot the coup and guaranteed its success. They were previously educated for insurrection in the US governments notorious School of the Americas and FBI training programs.
By Jeb Sprague
The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the countrys elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.
Just prior to Morales resignation, the commander of Bolivias armed forces Williams Kaliman suggested that the president step down. A day earlier, sectors of the countrys police force had rebelled.
Though Kaliman appears to have feigned loyalty to Morales over the years, his true colors showed as soon as the moment of opportunity arrived. He was not only an actor in the coup, he had his own history in Washington, where he had briefly served as the military attaché of Bolivias embassy in the US capital.
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lostnfound
(16,203 posts)Its also amazing how the military leaders can easily manage to get visas to come to SOA training but to come be a tourist or visit a friend, forget it.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)You make a good point. Latin American military folks are expected to stay in their own countries to ride herd, keep the lid on any potential movements to put the government in the hands of the people instead of the fascists. They are allowed to flee to live in the U.S., usually South Florida to be close to other racist fascists when they go so far the people try to take back their governments and try to put them on trial for their human rights violantions, their massacres, and torture.
So many deadly people graduated from that US training school, and what they have wrought in the Americas has been devastating to the people in their homelands. Way beyond shameful for everyone involved.