Bolivia Decries
Foreign Military Bases
LA PAZ - Bolivian President Evo Morales
denounced on Wednesday the presence of
foreign military bases in the region as a
real threat to peoples'' sovereignty.
At the inauguration ceremony of the Armed
Forces academic year in southern La Paz,
Morales said that in view of that new
offensive of the empire, we need to raise
the dignity of Bolivians and their social
forces.
In this regard, in an obvious reference to
the United States, he called for building a
new military doctrine amid foreign attacks
under the pretext of fighting terrorism or
drug trafficking.
Morales said that the real objective of the
presence of these military facilities of the
empire is to monopolize again natural
resources in Latin America, threatening with
death left wing governments and checking the
growing process of change.
He urged Armed Forces members to launch a
national and international crusade for the
rights of the Pachamama (Mother Earth),
affected by the interests of the
transnationals, which pollute the planet
only to achieve their commercial benefits.
He recalled that nearly 15,000 delegates
from the five continents are expected to
discuss these issues at the world summit of
the peoples on climate change to be held in
Cochabamba in April.
The meeting is a Morales' initiative in the
wake of the failure of the 15th Conference
on the issue held in Copenhagen (Denmark)
last year. |
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