U.S. Peace Council Statement
Mobilize
to Stop the Imperialistic Coup and Intervention
in
Bolivia and Latin America!
The U.S.
Peace Council (USPC) strongly condemns the U.S.-backed military coup against
the democratically elected president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and stands in
solidarity with Bolivia’s first indigenous president and the people of Bolivia.
The violence unleashed by the military and members of the right-wing opposition
forced the resignation of Evo Morales and his vice-president in the hope of
putting an end to the foreign-induced violence and destruction in their
country.
This is a coup against a president who has lifted three million Bolivians out of poverty
(42% drop in the poverty rate and a 60% drop in the extreme poverty rate). He had
also dared to close U.S. military bases in Bolivia and had paid to combat fires
in the Amazon, actions which have undoubtedly angered the U.S. ruling circles.
This action
in Bolivia is in keeping with U.S. efforts to destabilize democratically
elected governments in Central and South America — Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua,
and now Bolivia — and brutalizing and suppressing people’s movements in
countries like Colombia. The orchestrated protests and violent acts of
reactionary forces in the city of La Paz; the threats and attacks on
politicians, the media and social movements; and the threats against embassies
of Venezuela, Cuba and Mexico in La Paz, are further evidence for the true
intentions of the U.S.-backed coup plotters. Since 2001, the USAID has been
financing the right-wing opposition to Evo Morales and the U.S. Government has
been working closely with them.
It is clear that
the U.S. government is deeply concerned with the rise of the left and
independent popular movements and governments in Latin America. It has been
using every weapon in its arsenal — sabotages, political subversions, imposing
trade blockades and killer economic sanctions, expanding the NATO presence in
Latin America, and establishing new military bases — to stem the tide. The coup
attempt in Bolivia is just the last imperialistic attempt in this direction.
The U.S.
Peace Council vehemently opposes the U.S. imperialism’s efforts to re-establish
its hegemonic domination of Latin America. We call for an end to NATO
presence and closure of all U.S. military bases in Latin America, an end to the
unilaterally imposed sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, U.S.
commitment to the Colombian Peace Accords and an end to U.S. regime change
efforts in Latin America and throughout the world.
We call upon
all peace-loving people of the United States to condemn these imperialist acts
of the U.S. Government and mobilize mass protests against the coup in Bolivia
and all other U.S. efforts to undermine the national sovereignty of the peoples
of Latin America and the world.
Executive
Committee of the U.S. Peace Council
November 11, 2019
November 11, 2019
U.S. Peace
Council • PO Box 3105, New Haven, CT 06515 • (203) 387-0371
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