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‘Don't Let Food into the Cities': Evo Morales Caught on Tape Planning Starvation in Bolivia
2019-11-21
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[Breitbart] On Wednesday, Minister of Government (Interior Minister) Arturo Murillo published audio of what he said was a call between Morales, currently in Mexico, and Faustino Yucra Yarwui, a rural socialist community organizer, in which Morales demanded Yucra organize blockades around the nation’s biggest cities to prevent food and basic supplies from coming in, pressuring the government to allow Morales to return to power.

Yucra is a member of one of Bolivia’s coca growers’ unions. Coca is the plant used to develop cocaine. Morales rose to power as an advocate for coca growers and used his international prominence to promote the legalization of coca leaf,

Yucra, who refers repeatedly to Morales as "brother," tells Morales that the coca leaders have organized two blockade points to prevent goods from entering, one that has attracted 4,500 people.

"You know what, brother: you don't have to have 4,500 people," Morales replies in the audio. "Divide the union into four or five groups, so it lasts longer. … If you concentrate [in one place], people give up, but if there are groups, they take turns, we can hold up the blockade."

"Brother, don't let food into the cities, we will really blockade," Morales continues. "When they expelled me from Congress in 2002, they did a blockade. And now, they kick me out of Bolivia; there is a blockade. We will win."

Murillo told reporters the call occurred "three days ago" but could not reveal how Bolivian intelligence services acquired it. He accused Morales of "terrorism" and "crimes against humanity" for helping Yucra organize violent blockades that could starve out thousands of poor Bolivians.
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Posted by:Frank G

#9  From Frank's link in #6 - Spengler/Goldman nails it. Worth re-posting the punch line:

By civility and bipartisanship, the Establishment refers to the policy consensus that squandered America’s dominant position in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. America had no military competitors of importance when George W. Bush took office in 2001, and an edge in high technology that made the American economy seem insuperable. Since then:

-China has taken America’s place as the leading exporter of high-tech equipment;
-America faces credible military competition from China;
-Real median household income hasn’t grown since 2000;
-The civilian labor force participation rate has fallen from 67% in 2000 to 63% today;
-Productivity growth has languished at 1% a year since the global financial crisis;
-US federal debt has between 2000 and 2018 has doubled as a share of GDP;
-The American economy became “cartelized, corrupt and anti-competitive,” dominated by a handful of tech monopolies who combined to crush competition.

Bush, supported by Senator McCain and the Republican mainstream, spent $5.6 trillion chasing the phantom of democracy in the Middle East, not to mention more than 6,700 American dead, more than 50,000 wounded and millions of lives disrupted.

That is why American voters elected Donald Trump in 2016.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-21 17:01  

#8  Try this
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-11-21 15:52  

#7  Hmm... most interesting.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-21 15:19  

#6  Found in another forum: A Funeral For A World That Never Was
Posted by: Frank G   2019-11-21 14:49  

#5  web link in #3 returns 404.
Don't see anything that looks like the article in any of the 9 mentions of Trump on their homepage
Posted by: SteveS   2019-11-21 14:43  

#4  #2 1984: "The object of power is power."
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-21 14:32  

#3  Last year I arrived early for a lunch address by Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security Agency and later the Central Intelligence Agency in the George W. Bush administration. Hayden was already there, and glad to chat. The conversation turned to Egypt, and I asked Hayden why the Republican mainstream had embraced the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the military government of President al-Sisi, an American-trained soldier who espoused a reformed Islam that would repudiate terrorism. "We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown" in July 2013, Hayden explained. "We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage."

"General," I remonstrated, "when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!"

"I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian," Hayden replied, without a hint of irony.

http://www.atimes.com/trump-lacks-experience-but-his-detractors-lack-common-sense/
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-11-21 14:28  

#2  Its always about the power, and never about the people. Always, everywhere.
Posted by: Crusader   2019-11-21 10:19  

#1  Trotsky him.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-21 10:12  

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