Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault

[Judi Lynn]

Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault
Canadian Dimension, October 30th, 2008

(By Frederico Fuentes. The Bullet) Fearing the government would use this victory to push ahead with a referendum on the draft Constitution, the right wing went to Plan B.

After a series of meetings between the U.S. ambassador, U.S. congresspeople and the half moon prefects, it was agreed to enact a plan to destabilize the east, stirring up violence to the point where either the military would be forced to react, causing deaths and Morales’ resignation, or creating the justification for some kind of United Nations intervention to “restore stability.”

Small groups of balaclava-wearing thugs took over airports to create an image of a president that could not set foot in half the country, while the prefects openly talked about regional independence.

With violent attacks on indigenous people escalating, fascist youths began to target police officers and soldiers. The aim was to stir up discontent within these institutions.

The plan was ratcheted up as paramilitaries began to appear openly together with armed youths and to take over and loot state institutions, stating that they would now come under the jurisdiction of the prefectures.

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