Charges of U.S. Funding to Violent Opposition Groups in Bolivia: the National Endowment for Democracy Responds
Readers:This week we have been putting the spotlight on the ongoing debate, a fierce one, regarding the role of U.S. funding in Bolivia, through agencies such as USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and others. To begin that debate we published a post from Dan Beeton of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, an article which openly charges that the U.S. is “funding violent opposition groups” in Bolivia. Among the facts cited as evidence in the CEPR article is funding NED has given to the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce and others.
As noted in my introduction to the CEPR article, the Democracy Center has invited both the U.S. Embassy and NED to offer their own comments on this issue and to publish those comments here on the Blog unedited.
We have yet to hear back from the Embassy in La Paz but the NED has accepted our invitation and below is the reply by Jane Riley Jacobsen, the NED’s Director of Public Affairs. We appreciate the NED’s willingness to engage in this discussion and we hope our readers will as well.
We look forward to reading your comments.
Jim Shultz
Charges of U.S. Funding to Violent Opposition Groups in Bolivia: the National Endowment for Democracy Responds
May 8, 2009
Thank you, Jim, for the invitation to share with your readers the facts about the work of the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) in Bolivia. NED’s work in Bolivia is absolutely non-violent and non-partisan, contrary to the careless suggestion made by Mr. Beeton, which you so rightly questioned.
First, your readers should understand that NED is not a US Government agency, but rather, a private, nonprofit foundation that makes more than 1,000 grants each year to support the development of democratic institutions and the defense fundamental human rights in more than 90 countries worldwide.
While the Endowment does receive an annual appropriation from the US Congress, NED is governed by an independent, bipartisan board of directors, who make all the decisions about what groups we support.
NED is also transparent – publishing summaries of our grants each year in our annual report, and on our website. In Mr. Beeton’s response, he cites the NED grant to CAINCO as the “one grant Jeremy Bigwood was able to get a hold of.” That is not because NED withheld any information – it was our only grant in 2004 in Bolivia; a one-time grant through the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE, one of NED’s four core grantees) to CAINCO to increase the transparency of the public procurement process and improve corporate transparency. The grant was active from May 2004 to April 2005, before President Morales was elected as noted in Beeton’s article.
Since 2004, NED’s grants program in Bolivia has grown substantially, supporting programs aimed at averting conflict and trying to bridge the polarization that plagues Bolivia today. In Bolivia, as elsewhere in the region, NED provides funding to nonpartisan organizations that work across political, socio-economic, ethnic and regional divides. Whether working at the local level or with underrepresented groups, NED grants seek to bring citizens together on issues of common concern, facilitate dialogue, provide objective information and encourage Bolivians to make their own informed decisions. NED grantees have fielded citizen observers to monitor the recent referendums; have worked with pro-government and opposition mayors to increase transparency and accountability; and have provided civic education to women, youth and indigenous peoples.
In Bolivia and elsewhere in the world, NED funding cannot be used to advocate for or finance campaigns of candidates for public office, for activities that involve or advocate violence, bribes, payoffs, and must be consistent with democratic principles and procedures. This is clearly stated in our Statement of Principles and Objectives, in our grant agreements, and is communicated to all grantees.
I hope that this information gives your readers a more straightforward picture of what NED does in Bolivia and around the world.
Sincerely,
Jane Riley Jacobsen
Director, Public Affairs
National Endowment for Democracy
posted by The Democracy Center at 6:15 PM
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"elsewhere in the world, NED funding cannot be used to advocate for or finance campaigns of candidates for public office"
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Cross apply the analysis below to the above outrageously misleading quotation so that the above inferred argument is extended.
Because Jane says "NED funding cannot be used" for something means we are supposed to trust her that she and the NED must not be using their US taxpayer funds for that which wrong. Yeah right, Jane, you deceitful Bush-Cheney "democracy" wolf-in-sheep's-clothing.
Here's what Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul disclosed in an op-ed:
"The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is nothing more than a costly program that takes U.S. taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties abroad. What the NED does in foreign countries, through its recipient organizations the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), would be rightly illegal in the United States. The NED injects 'soft money' into the domestic elections of foreign countries in favor of one party or the other. Imagine what a couple of hundred thousand dollars will do to assist a politician or political party in a relatively poor country abroad[i.e.BOLIVIA],. It is particularly Orwellian to call U.S. manipulation of foreign elections 'promoting democracy.' How would Americans feel if the Chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to China? Would this be viewed as a democratic development?"
Thank you.
Did the NED fund observers for the illegal autonomy referendums in Santa Cruz and other media luna departments? Did the NED fund the observer mission sent by the Human Rights Foundation, who have now been linked to financing of Hungarian mercenary Eduardo Rozsa Flores and his armed militia in Santa Cruz?
Jim, you are owed our thanks for posting the articulate and convincing response from NED. It amply demonstrates that the paranoia case of US funding of violence in Bolivia has no legs (or no brains, for that matter).
What's up with the pseudo-Indian Morales hating real Indians so much?
The cases of flogging by Cuchi Cuchi worshipper's fascistoid puppets to those who don't support his toilet paper constitution is extending like a virus throughout the country. The most (in)famous case is, as is well documented, of the drunk and bloodthirsty mob invading the Cardenas home and beating his family to a pulp. Next, a former MAS congresswoman in my 'hood in Yungas, was branded a "traitor" and then done a Robin Givens by Morales sympathizers a la Mike Tyson. Same reason for beating up another anti-Morales Indian, Juan Choque, who was used as an "Everlast" punching bag in the Murillo Plaza.
Marcial Fabricano, a respected and renowned Indian leader is currently bedridden in a hospital because a couple of days ago he was publicly flogged by a group of MAS gorilas for 1/2 an hour until he fainted due to the pain. All because he didn't agree with Cuchi Cuchi worshipper on some issues.
Whatever it is, Cuchi Cuchi worshipper sure has some anger management issues (and that's only one out of a long list of).
;-)
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"provides funding to nonpartisan organizations that work across political, socio-economic, ethnic and regional divides"
The Industrial and Agricultural Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Bolivia works accross regional divides?
Is non-partisan or virulently anti- Evo?
Is an organization of the people or a guild of wealthy businessmen and agribusiness technocrats enriched by Dictator Banzer's huge land giveaways in the 1970's (back when NED was still a CIA operation, I believe, though Jane might be able to clear that up for us)
"your readers should understand that NED is not a US Government agency, but rather, a private, nonprofit foundation"
"encourage Bolivians to make their own informed decisions"
Priceless.
Former CIA agent tells: How US infiltrates "civil society" to overthrow governments.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4332.htm
Former Agent Agee:
"Over the years, the CIA exerted phenomenal influence behind the scenes in country after country, using these powerful elements of civil society to penetrate, divide, weaken and destroy organisations on the left, and indeed to impose regime change by toppling governments.
Anyone who has watched the opposition to President Hugo Chavez's government in Venezuela develop can be certain that the CIA, AID and the NED are coordinating the destabilisation and were behind the failed coup in April 2002 as well as the failed ”civic strike” of last December-January.
The NED is supposedly a private, non-government, non-profit foundation, but it receives a yearly appropriation from the US Congress. The money is channeled through four “core foundations”. These are the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (linked to the Democratic Party); the International Republican Institute (Republican Party); the American Center for International Labor Solidarity; and the Center for International Private Enterprise (US Chamber of Commerce).
The NED's NGO status provides the fiction that recipients of NED money are getting “private” rather than US government money. This is important because so many countries, including both the US and Cuba, have laws relating to their citizens being paid to carry out activities for foreign governments."
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Jane Riley Jacobsen NED damage control = FAIL!
So after reading all of the past few posts and dozens of comments...at best we can say that US organizations might have provided money that could have been misappropriated.
Now, why don't we take a look at Cuba and Venezuelan money? Oooops...there's absolutely no audit trail. Well that was quick. The only data I have is that Cuban doctors have operated 400,000 patients, which leads me to conclude that they are doing human experiments on Bolivians, and unnecessarily cutting them open to sell their organs. Now, who can possibly dispute this.
Readers:
Dan Beeton has sent along the following reponse to the comments on this topic from the NED. I am posting them here for our readers, not as my opinion but as Dan's. In addition, Dan has added a response to comments on his own post from last week which can be viewed at the end of that post here:
http://democracyctr.org/blog/2009/05/is-united-states-funding-violent.html
Jim Shultz
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Response from CEPR
I am glad to see the NED responded, but unfortunately, the response contains little substance.
First, I note that Jane Riley Jacobsen of the NED is silent on whether assistance to CAINCO was ended due to CAINCO’s ties to violent groups. This is an important question, also because the public recipient of NED funds is not necessarily the final recipient. As William I. Robinson, a leading scholar on U.S. “democracy promotion” programs describes, “Most monies originating from the NED are first channeled through US organizations which, in turn, pass them on to foreign counterparts who are themselves often pass-throughs for final recipients.” (William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy. Cambridge University Press, 1996, page 95)
To address a few of the other claims made by Jacobsen: “NED is not a US Government agency, but rather, a private, nonprofit foundation…”
While it may be true that the U.S. government does not administer the NED, it receives over 99 percent of its budget from the U.S. government, and it was created by congressional legislation in 1983. Additional funding is tied up with other U.S. government spending, both public and secret. To cite Robinson again, “all NED grants are submitted to the State Department for approval, and US embassies abroad frequently handle logistics for and coordination of NED programs. The State Department and other executive agencies regularly appoint personnel to participate in NED programs.” (Robinson, pp. 93-94)
That the NED is officially “non-governmental” is, I would argue, deliberate and integral to its purpose.
The NED was created, according to both the NED’s first president, Allen Weinstein, and to news articles at the time (see, e.g., George Lardner, “Rep. Fascell Wears Several Hats for Cause; In Bid to Endow Democracy,” The Washington Post, June 5, 1983), to take over various tasks that previously had been carried out by the CIA. Whereas many of these had been done covertly by the CIA, such as supporting political parties, associations, civil society groups, and so on, they are now done by the NED, sometimes overtly, sometimes not. Since the NED is officially not an organ of the U.S. government, its activities are one step removed from official U.S. government sanction. It is also not subject to Congressional oversight.
“NED funding cannot be used to advocate for or finance campaigns of candidates for public office, for activities that involve or advocate violence, bribes, payoffs, and must be consistent with democratic principles and procedures.”
Unfortunately, this assertion is not completely reflective of NED’s past. We know that the NED funded various groups that supported the short-lived 2002 coup d’etat against the democratically elected government in Venezuela, including “the leaders” of two of which served in the coup government’s cabinet. (See Bart Jones, “Tension in Venezuela; Activist Eyes Groups' Funding; Brooklyn Lawyer Says U.S. Government Funds Are Aiding Those Trying to Overthrow President," Newsday (NY), April 4, 2004.) According to the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector General,
"it is clear that NED [the National Endowment for Democracy], Department of Defense (DOD), and other U.S. assistance programs provided training, institution building, and other support to individuals and organizations understood to be actively involved in the brief ouster of the Chavez government." (United States Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors Office of Inspector General, “A review of U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela: November 2001 - April 2002, Report 02-OIG-003, July 2002, www.oig.state.gov/documents/organization/13682.pdf)
Let’s hope that unlike these past precedents the NED will steer clear of any groups in Bolivia that seek to subvert democracy and/or promote violence to achieve their aims.
Dan Beeton
Still no smoking gun.
Dan, please show all of us the names of the principal actors involved, the money laundering, the secret bank accounts...you know, all that sexy stuff that would make your story more palatable and would hold up in a court of law: an itty bitty thing called "evidence."
It wouldn't be too shabby to include a document from NED that categorically states, "I, NED, by the power invested in me, authorize the disbursement of X amount of dollars to (in your words) 'subvert democracy and/or promote violence'."
OK? Pretty please. With extra sugar on top.
;-)
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Beni is Morales' Katrina
By the way, I took a couple of minutes to check one of Dan's sources. Check out how sneaky he is. This is what he wrote:
"it is clear that NED [the National Endowment for Democracy], Department of Defense (DOD), and other U.S. assistance programs provided training, institution building, and other support to individuals and organizations understood to be actively involved in the brief ouster of the Chavez government." (United States Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors Office of Inspector General, “A review of U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela: November 2001 - April 2002, Report 02-OIG-003, July 2002, www.oig.state.gov/documents/organization/13682.pdf)"
This is the full statement on Page 3 of the report. Observe what Dan conveniently ommited.
"(My caps) OIG FOUND NOTHING TO INDICATE THAT U.S. ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN VENEZUELA, INCLUDING THOSE FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY (NED), WERE INCONSISTENT WITH U.S. LAW OR POLICY. WHILE it is clear that NED, Department of Defense (DOD), and other U.S. assistance programs provided training, institution building, and other support to individuals and organizations understood to be actively involved in the brief ouster of the Chávez government, (my caps) WE FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THIS SUPPORT DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTED, OR WAS INTENDED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT EVENT.
(cough, cough)
Uh, Dan? Et tu?
For more details exonerating NED from the Venezuela issue, go to page 19 of the report.
;-)
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Beni is Morales' Katrina
For those who wish, there is a new journal a lot more objective:
☼ www.cambio.bo ☼
Sigues ejerciendo tu mediocridad vomitante Nedito? Jeje ;-)
"I love Evo"
Just curious, by what measure is a newspaper produced by the government and MAS, objective? Reaaly, please explain.
To Anonymous 6:18 PM
It's simple. Just read the newspapers and compare the content. You'll see.
More details are pouring out about Marcial Fabricano's flogging (who, by the way, is a real Indian, unlike that flaky fake Morales).
A bunch of MAS savages first heckled and insulted Fabricano, accusing him of being a "traitor" for daring to oppose some of Cuchi Cuchi worshipper's policies. Then, he was held and given 50 lashes.
50 lashes.
The poor guy was so badly beaten up that he had to be flown to a Santa Cruz hospital and is currently in intensive care. As expected, officials in this "multinational, pluricultural," or whatever this government calls itself, justified the savagery, arguing that it was "communitarian justice."
Cuchi Cuchi worshipper better be careful on what he's allowing. Inside Bolivia, he's known as an insecure, uncouth racist and violent rabble rouser. In the first world, he has successfully portrayed himself as a simple and exotic Indian from a faraway land nobody has heard of. As more news of this type filters out into the mainstream, Cuchi Cuchi worshipper won't be seen as the promoter of "the culture of life and dialogue," but rather as "the Abomination from Flagellation Nation."
;-)
The Croats are Morales' Jews
Beni is Morales' Katrina
Bolivia: Flagellation Nation
► who, by the way, is a real Indian, unlike that flaky fake Morales ◄
Hey Cuchi Cuchi you think we are idiots like you?
Only foreign hippies and the uninformed believe that Evo is a true "indigenous," or worse that he is the "first indigenous president." The only true originario that I can think of is El Mallku. Evo, Patana, even Alejo Velez are mestizos, as is the vast mayority of Bolivians. The Mariscal de Zepita was the first Bolivia president and he was more indigenous than Evo. But, as it always happens with any nationalistic dictatorship, the cult of personality and ego of the Great Leader forces them to re-write history.
So it is not surprising to see the masses and these foreigners to one day declare that Oceania is at war with Eurasia, and the next to say that Oceania and Eurasi are brothers and East Asia is our immortal enemy....ooops wait a minute: Didn't Evo say that doing business with Chile was treason and we should export our gas via Peru, and today he is supporting that we build an underground tunnel (much larger than the chunnel) because Chile is our friend and Peru is evil.
Yes dear, truth is stranger than fiction.
You Cuchi Cuchi 9:29 AM don't want sign usually you do?
Hear my dear Cuchi Cuchi i'am from Oruro and I know my people ok? You're idiot but don't need to exaggerate..
Whoa, Jim. Was that you on the bike that the J almost clipped a half hour ago? Just off America Oeste? You gotta watch those guys, we need you around!
Dos nombres, dos indígenas flagelados, ¿cuál vale más?
Texto: Yandira Claros Ale
La Paz, 13 May (Erbol).- Dos nombres, dos dorsos flagelados, los dos son indígenas. Uno es Ramiro Valle, guaraní, quien fue azotado por el hacendado Mario Malpartida el 13 de abril de 2008. El otro es Marcial Fabricano, quien fue flagelado el pasado viernes, curiosamente por indígenas.
El 13 de abril del pasado año, una caravana que se dirigía a la comunidad guaraní de Itacuatia, conformada por indígenas, funcionarios del Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA) y del Viceministerio de Tierras, fue emboscada por gente afín al Comité Cívico cruceño y a los ganaderos de la zona. Ahí, en un ambiente violento, fue capturado por una turba enardecida Ramiro Valle, con las manos atadas fue conducido a la plaza de Cuevo entre escupitajos, golpes y los azotes del hacendado Mario Malpartida, que le “sugería” que pida perdón por su condición de indígena.
“Me han flagelado, torturado, me maniataron y me condujeron a pie un kilómetro mientas Malpartida me azotaba, me pedían que pida disculpas a la población de Cuevo, porque soy guaraní”, relato el indígena guaraní cuando fue rescatado por la policía.
Valle denunció este caso ante la justicia camireña después de un año, hasta el momento nadie está citado a declarar, no hay ningún detenido y los guaraníes piden al Poder Judicial la sanción correspondiente.
Un hecho similar y de reciente data es lo ocurrido con Marcial Fabricano, quien a diferencia de Valle goza de gran cobertura mediática. El ex dirigente de la Cidob, desde la cama del hospital de la ciudad de Trinidad, denunció que fue agredido por los corregidores del Parque Nacional y Territorio Indígena Isiboro – Secure (TIPNIS) cuando se disponía a participar, a nombre del prefecto Ernesto Suárez Sattori, en una asamblea de esta organización indígena.
Consultado sobre este hecho, tan reciente, el vicepresidente de la CIDOB, Pedro Nuny, afirmó “que con la vara que mediste serás medido, yo creo que a Marcial lo midieron con la misma vara que midió” y denunció que existen muchas denuncias en contra de Marcial Fabricano por agresión física.
Ambos casos tienen características similares, la intolerancia; pero los diferencia la cobertura mediática y el apoyo “incondicional” de algunos medios que dieron amplia cobertura a lo ocurrido con Fabricano. Por ejemplo la prensa escrita publicaba titulares como “Indígena opositor, Marcial Fabricano, fue flagelado por masistas”; “Marcial Fabricano fue azotado por presuntos militantes del MAS”; “Marchas de censura por agresión a Marcial Fabricano”; “Masistas flagelaron al líder indígena Marcial Fabricano”; “Suman protestas por ‘golpiza’ a Fabricano, la Cidob continúa justificando los azotes”, entre otros.
Mientras que en el caso de Ramiro Valle los titulares de la prensa decían “Situación tensa en el Chaco: Gobierno anuncia pausa momentánea para buscar a desaparecidos”; “Dan la bienvenida a un grupo de guaraníes con una emboscada a la caravana de los indígenas”, estos son algunos de los pocos titulares que reflejaban lo acontecido el año pasado en el Chaco cruceño, pero ninguno hacía mención a la agresión que sufrió Valle.
Dos nombres, dos dorsos flagelados, los dos son indígenas, uno merece ocho columnas más foto en los periódicos de circulación nacional; el otro tan sólo una mención de una columna. Una injusticia mediática en dos hechos similares.
http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia1.php?identificador=1119&bdatos=notiportada3
What does it mean?
English, please! Ari?
;-)
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Bolivia: Flagellation Nation
Don't understand Cuchi? Try Google Language Tools.
Don't understand Cuchi? Try Google Language Tools ..
I ask this about 65% jokingly, doesn't the United States have the burden of proof to show that they are not funding violent opposition groups? And by "they" I mean those institutions of the U.S. government that have, over and over again, supported violent opposition groups in Latin America.
Normally, the folks making an accusation would have to show why what they're saying is true, but in this case . . . has there ever been a popular government (like the one in Bolivia now) in Latin America that the U.S. hasn't tried to have overthrown? Maybe some people think this is a good thing, but there is a pattern, and it seems to me that it would be pretty inconsistent with U.S. past behaviour (again "U.S." meaning certain parts of the government) if it wasn't funding or otherwise encouraging violent opposition groups in Bolivia. Whether they're doing so successfully is another story.
By the way, just started reading the website, and look forward to reading more! Thanks.
"What does it mean?
English, please! Ari?
;-)
The Croats are Morales' Jews..."
Hmmm. . . he/she/it claims to be a Boliviano from the "Yungas"; Further, they belittle Evo because he does not speak Quechua and Aymara...hmmm.
I guess Bushie holdovers in the US State Dept or Embassy do not provide it's trolls with translation software, there, in Miami.
Evo don't speak aymara? Hahahaha !
It's really a big idiot who believes that we will swallow these lies.
FYI to I LOVE EVO on the assertion that the government/MAS daily is “objective”:
ob⋅jec⋅tive
“not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objective
Wouldn’t a newspaper written explicitly by political backers of Evo be biased in his favor, just as those papers owned by his adversaries are biased against him?
And yes, it certainly seems that way from reading it. Can you cite a single article anywhere in any edition that is remotely critical of Evo, to balance out the very many that are so tilted in his favor?
I think it is perfectly fine to suggest that the new paper be read as a counterbalance to, say, Los Tiempos. But to cal it objective just seems wildly misleading.
To 5:31 PM : I said « more objective ». Did you get it?
o 5:31 PM :
And you can cite a single article supporting Evo?
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Dan, please show all of us the names of the principal actors involved, the money laundering, the secret bank accounts...you know, all that sexy stuff that would make your story more palatable and would hold up in a court of law: an itty bitty thing called "evidence."Dictionary Definition of Evidence:
1. A thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment: The broken window was evidence that a burglary had taken place. Scientists weigh the evidence for and against a hypothesis.
2. Something indicative; an outward sign: evidence of grief on a mourner's face.
3. Law: The documentary or oral statements and the material objects admissible as testimony in a court of law.
Croat Guy's Definition of Evidence:
1. Doesn't Exist if it Disagrees with My Opinion
Lets face it Croat, you are a hack. Your credibility for non-partisan, evidence-based argument on this board is beyond awful. Please leave the objective arguments to adults.
Thanks.
Imaynalla, dawgs!
I gotta thank for the "Google Language Tools" tip, although it would be common amateur courtesy to copy and paste the english translated version in the blog, ari? I still have no idea what the article said. Does anybody?
grindio: The colder you get with your guesses, the more boring you become. Look livelier, waway!
bowsie: a hack? Moi? My, my! What venom one has to suffer just for seeking the truth. Um, by the way, my (adult) question still stands: where's the evidence?
(uncomfortable silence)
See? There ain't any. Don't get mad at me. Get mad at Dan for amateurishly omitting key phrases from one of his "sources of evidence" (which I helpfully put in capital letters in my previous post) and for being so sloppy.
Q'aya Kama!
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Beni is Morales' Katrina
Morales: The Abomination from Flagellation Nation (how's that one?)
I have to agree with Mr. Beeton's affirmation, the NED response lacks substance. Could have been drafted in 1983, for all the knowledge that Jane shows of the specific situation in Bolivia, and NED's funding for an extremely partisan organization of the wealthy from Eastern Bolivia.
Allende, Arbenz, many others made the mistake of giving the Empire the benefit of the doubt. Back when Croat-guy's straw arguments were the stuff only of conversation in "upper middle class" "casas bien" in the "respectable neighborhoods" of latin America's cities. When even foreign news correspondents in Bolivia were on the CIA payroll.
For thirty years, the Empire, the CIA and the US Government and public in general denied any involvment in the overthrowing and assasination of Allende, which led to one of the bloodiest periods in Chile's history. Until the proof turned up, via FOIA requests.
What FOIA requests about Bolivia is USAID, NED and others unwilling to respond to? Only fools in the Bolivian government would wait for this lengthy bureaucratic process to unfold, congratulations to our President Evo for dealing with this pest as they deserve.
"CIA exerted phenomenal influence behind the scenes in country after country, using these powerful elements of civil society" who are now relegated to trolling this blog, oj oj oj.
The Manaco's are Morales' Shoes
Dengue was Morales' gripe porcina
No good, you can do better than that. Perhaps there is more truth to be sought in anagrams than analogies.
Dan Beeton > The cuchi cuchi kid
To Cuchi :
► gotta thank for the "Google Language Tools" tip, ◄
You're welcome. However, it would be good if you show a little initiative.
Croat cuchi:
Cuchi means you as a whole. The translation in spanish is "cerdo" and that is what you are, how do you feel when you go to bed at night after lying and discrediting a government that truly represents the mayority of the bolivian people?
Only a croat-MNR goni sucker scum would write so much distortion of reality.
I am sorry to know that the facists are still alive and well sponsored and paid by the Company In Action; as usual only to benefit the corrupt mafia ruling santa cruz.
"...facists are still alive and well sponsored and paid by the Company In Action;"
That's the part I do not understand. Is it possible that Bush's incompetence has brought the CIA and the Bolivian Embassy staff, now probably operating in Miami or DC, to this: an idiot (code name: "Croat Cuchi") being the only one to lie, misinform and exasperate the public so Evo can be discredited? The money must not be anywhere near what NED pays Jane to boldly try to deceive us.
I know this Cuchi man. His name is Nedo Lazaneo. His brain is very underdeveloped.
Cuchi man is an idiot. Don't give him importance.
Dirigentes mojeños justifican castigo a Marcial FabricanoSan Ignacio de Mojos, 17 May (Erbol/Radio Mátire).- Para los dirigentes indígenas mojeños, el castigo al ex dirigente Marcial Fabricano, mediante la “justicia comunitaria” está plenamente justificado, porque se lo practica desde tiempos ancestrales.
Según el Vicepresidente de la Central de Pueblos Étnicos CPEM-B, Ernesto Sánchez, el mismo Marcial Fabricano “el año 92, 95 y 96 hizo huasquear a más de 6 compañeros y acaso vinieron a quejarse, acaso Podemos los defendió?”.
“Lo que pasa es que ahora le tocó a él y como es empleado de la prefectura Podemos está impulsando esto argumentando que se han violado los derechos humanos. Pero Fabricano ya lo sabía, porque había una resolución de encuentro de corregidores, donde se le advertía que se lo iba a huasquear” aseguró el dirigente.
Aseguró que la CPEMB emitió una resolución del TIPNIS dando a conocer la realidad, pues Fabricano vino acumulando una serie de antecedentes en su contra, como la venta de árboles de mara por varios miles de dólares, apropiación de inmuebles de la subcentral del TIPNIS.
Opinión parecida tienen otros dirigentes, como el corregidor del Gran Cabildo Indigenal de San Ignacio de Mojos, Ignacio Apace, quien dijo que no fue un abuso sino castigo por delitos.
To the bipeds (although I have my doubts) from the previous 4 posts:
Sorry I couldn't reply earlier. The laughter you evoked lasted all weekend. What better way to begin a Monday than with remnants of such laughter?
Yet, I must protest: you're running out of fresh words with your insults.
B-o-r-i-n-g!
;-)
The Croats are Morales' Jews
Beni is Morales' Katrina
http://www.cambio.bo/2009-mayo/18/especiales.php
Hey Nedillo Lazaneo aka Cuchi:
Saying that you're an idiot is not an insult. It is simply stating the obvious. ;-)
► The laughter you evoked lasted all weekend ◄
En boca del tonto abunda la risa .. ☺
The difference between NED and The Democracy Center is that NED is a transparent organization that provides financial information on its operations open to the public (http://fconline.fdncenter.org/990Search_prod/results.aspx?queryType=new&request=National+Endowment+for+Democracy&fiscalYearInput=&fdnNameInput=&fdnCityInput=&fdnStateInput=&fdnZipInput=&fdnEINInput=&Submit=Search). Jim on the other hand, does not make this information public and hides behind Community Initiatives and previously the San Francisco Foundation. Jim how about some disclosure? You have your gringo salary, perks, social security, etc., and yet pretend to be an advocate for less fortunate people while pulling in more than the President of Bolivia.
What are you hiding? (Beside the gray hairs).
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