Waikiki pastime: watching and talking with the guys doing the dredging for $2.5 million beach replenishment project (Photo credit: Susan NYC)

English: Diagram showing overview of cloud computing including Google, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo & Lundi Matin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Google Street View Car in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Laguna Colorada, Punta Grande in the background Deutsch: Lama vor der Laguna Colorada, der Punta Grande im Hintergrund (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Português do Brasil: Presidente da Bolívia, Evo Morales, durante cerimônia de assinatura de atos. Español: Presidente de Bolivia Evo Morales, diciembre de 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: EE-9 Cascavel armored Bolivia during the military parade in Cochabamba, in commemoration of the Independence of Bolivia. Español: Blindado EE-9 Cascavel boliviano durante la parada militar de Cochabamba,en conmemoración de la Independecia boliviana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

EVO MORALES BLUNTLY DESCRIBES US DIPLOMACY

It long became a staple of the US propaganda to portray Morales as an individual who does not measure up to the standards normally associated with his status, and on the fringes the campaign against the Latin American country’s first indigenous president chronically slips into downright racism.

After a period of evident restraint, Morales did respond to the US invectives in an unusually blunt manner in a recent Decolonizaton Day address (the Decolonizaton Day is Bolivia’s official title for the date of the discovery of America). He said that, in contrast to the recent past when Bolivian army and security officers flocked to the US diplomatic mission in La Paz as the connection used to guarantee a successful career, these days relations with the U.S. Embassy have become so bad they are “like a turd.”. According to Morales, now the police and army staff fear being spotted attending the US embassy as the majority of Bolivians frown on such contacts and regard US diplomats as enemies of Bolivia. The former Bolivian governments were heavily dependent on the US which was practically able to hand out appointments within the army and police hierarchies, but the current Bolivian administration managed to put an end to the arrangement.
Morales revisited the US-Bolivian relations when, next day, he spoke in Santa Cruz at the graduation ceremony for 630 Cuban-trained Bolivian medical doctors. “Over the past 50 years, the US have cultivated an asymmetrical, disrespectful, abusive and dominant relationship with Bolivia”, said Morales. He charged that Washington never wanted Bolivia on the development path and that the US imposed on his country such cooperation programs that actually impeded its progress and served to perpetuate its inferior-partner condition. Morales also touched upon the theme of the fight against drug trafficking and expressed a view that Washington’s secret agenda was not aimed at defeating the drug cartels. Rather, as he explained, the US DEA felt that the flourishing of the drug business created pretexts for the US meddling and subduing – ideologically and politically – the Bolivian army and police. The US hoped to treat Bolivia as “a political pawn” while implementing an imperial doctrine and, in the settings, to grab control over Bolivia’s natural resources, held Morales.