I looked at the articles after you made this post and I don't know either what the connection is. Castro used to blame the US embargo for all of his economic woes and made it a scapegoat - perhaps Morales is making a scapegoat out of Goldberg to shift blame plus making his buddies Castro and Chavex happy....a "two-fer" as we say.

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7609487.stm
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>Mr Morales [the president] accused Philip Goldberg of "conspiring against democracy" and encouraging the country's break-up.
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>Well, there has been lots of turbulence recently - so it now seems that the U.S. ambassador is at fault? At least, that's what Mr. Morales seems to claim.