Bolivian President Evo Morales reports that he is expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAID) over repeated allegations that it is conspiring against his government.
USAID has been in Bolivia since 1964, and has been informed that they will be given a “reasonable” amount of time to suspend remaining operations. The State Department expressed “regret” over the decision.
Bolivian officials have repeatedly accused USAID of using its aid program to impose its political will on the country, and was blamed for 2011 protests against Morales’ government.
US-Bolivian relations has been worsening in recent years, with US officials pointing to the legality of coca in the country as a primary cause. Morales has accused the US of treating his country like a pawn in international relations.
Yankee go home.
This is living news? Not hardly, just dead facts void of history. For history is the light of the past that forces the darkness of the present to give way.
"If you don't know history,
its as if you were born yesterday."
Howard Zinn
For since it's creation in 1964, when I was age 24, there has not been hardly a coup in all of the Americans that did not have USAID corruption deeply involved in it.
The US regards ALL other countries "like a pawn in international relations". After all, the US has the right and responsibility to do so, as it is the "exceptional" country, and is better than any other country in the world, past and present. So think government worshipers.
Kudos to Bolivia for kicking US AID out.