Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Not long ago I read that a US Assistant Secretary of State, or perhaps it was a member of the National Security Council, said that now that Washington had reestablished control over Ecuador, it would not be long before the governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba would be overthrown.
Venezuela is proving to be hard for Washington to crack. Washington was banking on its NGO forces paid to stage protests, together with monetary bribes to the Venezuelan military, to chase Maduro out of office. But so far the Venezuelan military has refused to desert their country for Washington. Washington can, of course, raise the offer to the generals. Perhaps the generals are awaiting larger bribes.
However, the Bolivian military took the money and on the basis of protests organized by US-financed NGOs and the National Endowment for Overthrowing Democracy forced Evo Morales out of office. This is a huge loss for Bolivia.
Morales is the first president since the founding of Bolivia to come from the indigenous population. His seventy-nine predecessors were all members of the Spanish colonial elite allied with Washington. Together they plundered the country.
Washington considers Morales “leftist” because he focused on using Bolivian resources to reduce Bolivian poverty and to create a better life for Bolivians instead of for the profits of US corporations and banks and the Spanish elites who ruled Bolivia for Washington.
Self-determination in the southern hemisphere is simply not permitted by Washington or by its overthrow agent, the misnamed US “National Endowment for Democracy,” which is a well-financed organization for overthrowing real democracy.
Now that Bolivia is back in Washington’s hands, you can count on Wikipedia to rewrite Morales biography and cast him as a corrupt politician who was oppressing the Bolivian people.
Indeed, president Trump has already disposed of Morales as a man of the people. The hapless American president has praised the corrupt Bolivian military, which accepted Washington’s money to force out of office a president who represented Bolivia instead of Washington, as an agent of freedom and democracy.
The coup engineered by Washington used an election disputed only by Washington and its NGO protesters to charcterize Morales as an illegitimate president who tried to “overtride the Bolivian constitution and the will of the people.”
Trump actually described America’s overthrow of the democratic governemnt in Bolivia as “bringing the world one step closer to a completely democratic, prosperous, and free Western Hemisphere.”
Trump went on to describe the American overthrow of democratic government in Bolivia as a warning to the “illegitimate regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua that democracy and the will of the people will always prevail.” What Trump means by “democracy and the will of the people” is the interests of the New York Banks and American corporations known for their exploitation of Latin America. A “free Western Hemisphere” means free for exploitation by US business interests. An “illegitimate government” is one elected by the people instead of one put in office by Washington.
The former Ecuadoran president, Rafael Correa, who gave Julian Assange asylum and has been forced to seek safety abroad from Lenin Moreno, the corrupt tyrant Washington has imposed on Ecuador, said that the elected president of Bolivia was forced out in a Washington coup and that the Organization of American States is an instrument of US domination. He is correct. Moreno himself is proof of it. Moreno, a Washingon imposition unacceptable to the people of Ecuador, has been driven out of the capital by protesters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/08/ecuador-protestors-move-into-captial-president-leaves-quito/3914546002/ Nevertheless, Washington still claims that Lenin Moreno, who sold Julian Assange to Washington for a $4.3 billion IMF loan, brought freedom back to Ecuador.
The Venezuela government sees the situation the same as Rafael Correa. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/statement-bolivarian-republic-venezuela-coup-bolivia
Trump has presided over a major crime against humanity. This would be a valid reason to impeach him.
I will receive emails from some readers wanting to know how I can attack Trump and still endorse him. Such letters show the failure of American education. I have never endorsed Trump. I endorsed the goals that got him elected—normalization of relations with Russia and bringing the offshored American middle class jobs home. I predicted accurately that Trump knew nothing of Washington and would be unable to appoint anyone capable of serving his agenda. Trump undertook to drain the swamp while staffing himself with the proprietors of the swamp.
In my recent columns—https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/07/a-successful-coup-against-trump-will-murder-american-democracy/ and https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/08/only-donald-trump-can-save-american-democracy-and-only-with-our-support/ — I do not endorse Trump. I endorse American Democracy and truth. If an elected American president can be removed in an orchestrated coup as Morales was, the American people will have lost all control over their government. Both political parties seem to desire this result. Those Democrats and progressives who just want Trump out of the White House and those Republicans who won’t defend him from false charges do not comprehend the price to democracy of removing an elected president via orchestrated coup.
That some Americans are unable to comprehend the difference between endorsing Trump and endorsing accountable government is frightening. How can our country survive in accordance with our Constitution if Americans are incapable of rational thought, if they cannot understand their clearly written native language, if they cannot understand that a coup is a coup against democracy?
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Evo’s mistake was having a military at all. He should have gotten rid of the useless military early in his presidential career.
Stupidity always extracts a price.
Washington did not deprive us of our moral basis. We told God to take it back, we didn’t want it.
For the reason for the Bolivian Coup look no further than Lithium.
“I will receive emails from some readers wanting to know how I can attack Trump and still endorse him. Such letters show the failure of American education. I have never endorsed Trump. I endorsed the goals that got him elected—normalization of relations with Russia and bringing the offshored American middle class jobs home. I predicted accurately that Trump knew nothing of Washington and would be unable to appoint anyone capable of serving his agenda. Trump undertook to drain the swamp while staffing himself with the proprietors of the swamp.”
That was a strong and true paragraph but…
“That some Americans are unable to comprehend the difference between endorsing Trump and endorsing is frightening. How can our country survive in accordance with our Constitution if Americans are incapable of rational thought, if they cannot understand their clearly written native language, if they cannot understand that a coup is a coup against democracy?”
The problem is as I see it…unaccountable Crime families are fighting for control of “accountable government.”
Nothing would please me more than to be wrong…wouldn’t be the first time, but on this level its rare.
That plate of crow and humble pie would be a delicious meal.
I too took issue with this statement.
“How can our country survive in accordance with our Constitution if Americans are incapable of rational thought, if they cannot understand their clearly written native language, if they cannot understand that a coup is a coup against democracy?”
My issue; how can PCR, an seeming intelligent man who supposedly understands something of our constitution, continue to refer to the USA as a democracy? Is he incapable of realizing that we are NOT a democracy but a republic… a nation which requires the justly applied rule of written law in order to function?
Well put. Far too many people do not know what kind of government we have. The Framers despised pure “democracy” and for good reason.
And we get downvoted… ?
What are you smoking gcp? We are no longer a republic. Read the 17th amendment. We no longer have a senate as per the constitution. A senate is part of the framework of a republic.
And where are our constitutional courts? We have administrative courts. And where did we get administrative law? Surely not from the constitution. It came from a congress outside the form of a true republic that made the statutes and allowed un-elected officials make to rules and regulations that now are the bulk of our so called rule of law.
Before you question the intelligence of PCR why don’t you question your own? The majority of the american people think we are a democracy. What does that say about the american people?
Ignorance is widespread in america. Not only that but so is apathy and a lack of morals. And many don’t go to church so how are they to learn the morals taught in the bible that were the foundation of our once republic? We lost our republic because the people became unfit to keep it.
Educate yourself gcp in american history. Read the federalist papers.
I don’t smoke. We failed to keep it.
Pastor,
You and Liberty are 100% right about the fact that we started out as a Republic but the mostly successful ‘Long March’ Coup since 1913 (not the only event as per Thunderbird but the most damaging one) has brought us to a point in the Globalist’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ into the two class serfdom the 1% dream of.
How about this change:
“How can our country survive in accordance with our Constitution if Americans are incapable of rational thought, if they cannot understand their clearly written native language, if they cannot understand that a coup is a coup against a Republic’?”
Even though we actually are just an empire in rapid decline.
We have morphed into what I like to call reprehensible government, representing the interests of the Luciferian Globalists.
Globalists = The Rich/Elite. Greed is the worst of all sins.
We have an Armed Services Committee kitty on the run and it’s just a few trolls kicking around tonight?
I’m not sure how PCR knows that “The coup engineered by Washington used an election disputed only by Washington and its NGO protesters to charcterize Morales as an illegitimate president who tried to “overtride the Bolivian constitution and the will of the people.”
After all, there are lots of Americans who still buy the propaganda that “Hillary won the popular vote in 2016”. That takes no account of the documented voter fraud carried out in CA, FL and other places. Hundreds of thousands of illegal votes in CA alone! How do we know Morales is any different?
If all those illegal aliens and dead people and multiple votes voters weren’t stopped in CA, how are we to know that Morales didn’t steal the election like Hillary tried to?
Maybe Trump did what PCR says, maybe not. Maybe the generals in Bolivia figured out that socialism is a dead-end street leading to death and dysfunction, like it did in the USSR, mainland China, Cambodia and so on. Just maybe, the people of Bolivia decided not to die as planned.
In any case, if Trump (or his minions) somehow managed to evict Morales, he just may have done the people of Bolivia the best turn (by accident) that he could have. PCR’s claims to omniscience are stretching just a bit far for me in this article.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/75389/supreme-court-allows-sandy-hook-families-case-against-remington-arms-to.html
Next time I have a car accident I will sue the gas station for the gas in the car that hit me……
Business as usual.Another Washington coup in another nation. Should be a show “Washington’s Coup of the week” Then half of the country is shocked that a coup is being staged against their President.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-lefts-baseless-hatred-of-chick-fil-a-reveals-their-bigotry