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Evo Morales orders expulsion of US ambassador Phillip Goldberg
LA PAZ, September 10.—Bolivian President Evo Morales stated on Wednesday that he had ordered the expulsion of Phillip Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador, whom he accused of backing conservative opinion and seeking division in the country, Reuters report.
“The person conspiring against democracy and, above all, seeking to divide Bolivia is the U.S. ambassador,” affirmed Morales in a meeting at the Government Palace, in which he strongly condemned the wave of violence, including attacks on gas pipelines, unleashed by the opposition in various regions.
“I am asking our foreign minister of the Republic… to send a note to the ambassador today, informing him of the decision of the national government, of its president, that he must immediately return to his country; we do not want a separatist who conspires against unity, who attacks democracy,” the leader added.
On the other hand, Juan Ramón Quintana, minister of the presidency, warned in a press conference that the nation is “on the threshold of an atypical coup against the institutional order, which is currently underway on the part of the opposition prefectures and civic committees and in which tanks are no longer needed.”
Quintana announced that the government has provided “greater cover, a larger presence of military units” to preserve refineries and oil pumping units in the southeast of the country, cut off by roadblocks.
Translated by Granma International
Let’s Respect Our Mother Earth - Evo Morales
flashback 26 September, 2007 — Letter from President Evo Morales to the member representatives of the United Nations on the issue of the environment.
Sister and brother Presidents and Heads of States of the United Nations: The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change, and the disease is the capitalist development model. Whilst over 10,000 years the variation in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on the planet was approximately 10%, during the last 200 years of industrial development, carbon emissions have increased by 30%. Since 1860, Europe and North America have contributed 70% of the emissions of CO2. 2005 was the hottest year in the last one thousand years on this planet. Read the rest of this entry »
