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What the *other side* is saying...
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10/03/2003 11:48:01
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivie
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Politics
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Thread ID:
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>First of all, let me clarify that I was not claiming that the U.S. is such-and-such - I was reporting on what the people on the street say.
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>People have strong anti-U.S. sentiments here, and will often not be very reasonable about it. They are just as convinced about the U.S. being guilty, as you are that they are not <g>.
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>Some specific complaints are:
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  • That the U.S. supposedly was involved in the rising of a military dictatorship in Chile, and perhaps in a few other Latin American countries as well (pressumably considering the dictatorships a lesser evil, as compared to communism). (Try doing a search on "Plan Condor" - this will give you some interesting information.)

    I did some reading about Condor at:

    http://www.crimesofwar.org/special/condor.html

    It seems to be a fair and balanced article. I can't defend the United States on this one :-(. Although I don't know all the details, I don't doubt that these things happened. I think the United States made more than a few errors during the Cold War.

    From our perspective, I think we probably were looking at the lesser of 2 evils: communism vs. military dictatorships. I hope our behavior is improving with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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  • Specifically in Bolivia, the war against the Ancient and Holy Leaf (1), which has already caused lots of unrest, and several deaths. The Bolivian government wages a war against the Leaf, and receives money from the U.S. in exchange.
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  • It is also said that in several other government policies, our government is "submissive" to the U.S., and does about anything the U.S. asks of Bolivia.
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  • There was quite a scandal when the U.S. ambassador recommended not to vote for a certain candidate (2). Of course, I am aware that the ambassador may have acted on his own, without this being the official U.S. policy. I am almost certain that more people voted for this candidate, due to this foreign interference. Another political party even made the claim (absurd, IMO) that this was the intention!
    Chris McCandless
    Red Sky Software
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