[News] Macri and the US Involvement in the Bolivian Coup Starting to Emerge

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  Macri and the US Involvement in the Bolivian Coup Starting to Emerge

By Stella Calloni on November 18, 2019

On November 18, which is a holiday in Argentina, thousands of people 
occupied the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires against the coup d’état in 
Bolivia and in solidarity with the Chilean people, paying tribute to the 
victims and the resistance of the people, while evidence and 
condemnation continue to emerge about the complicity of the government 
of Mauricio Macri, and especially of the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo 
Morales with the coup plotters and with the U.S. officials who support 
and direct them.

Macri, his followers and the media in line with Washington continue to 
maintain that there is no coup d’état in Bolivia, an attitude that was 
rejected by the demonstrators in the communiqué they read, signed by 
social, political, humanitarian and Bolivian organizations and Chileans 
residing in Buenos Aires.

The complicity of Morales is becoming more evident every day as 
documentation from Bolivia, as well as from Argentine and Brazilian 
investigators, are exposing the connection which also accuses Brazilian 
President Jair Bolsonaro of being in on the collaboration.

According to new revelations, Mauricio Macri’s government knew about 
Luis Fernando Camacho’s coup decision six days in advance. The report 
refers to a meeting that the right-wing businessman had with diplomatic 
representatives of the consulates of other countries located in Santa 
Cruz de la Sierra on November 4, as the well-informed website “/The 
Rocket to the Moon/” directed by journalist Horacio Verbistky points out.

In that meeting Camacho asked the Argentine consulate for asylum in the 
face of an eventual failure of what he called “civil insubordination,” 
but this could only be decided by the Embassy in its headquarters in 
Bolivia’s capital. Camacho assured them that 48 hours later the Armed 
Forces were going to enter the government house, which was communicated 
to the Argentine Foreign Ministry at that time.

Slowly data is beginning to emerge that increasingly implicates Macri’s 
government, northwestern governors, Argentine military and the presence 
of US Southern Command advisors on the Argentine border with Bolivia, as 
well as the possibility that weapons, equipment and special forces from 
the United States have entered the borders of Argentina, Brazil and 
Paraguay.

The surprising trip of Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald 
Trump, to the province of Jujuy, bordering Bolivia on September 4-5, 
accompanied by 2,500 federal agents, Undersecretary of State John 
Sullivan and other officials, to “visit” a small NGO called /Pro Mujer/ 
that depends on the initiative for Development and Global Prosperity of 
Women that Trumps’s daughter directs in her country, was suspicious from 
the beginning.

The security scheme initiated by Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales, to 
avoid any possibility that someone unofficial could see the huge 
procession that accompanied Invaka- who was received by Minister of 
Foreign Affairs, Jorge Faurie, and Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich 
and especially the series of secret meetings that ensued between U.S. 
and local officials, inspired suspicion. And there is already talk of 
the presence of the now Bolivian coup plotters in the framework of the 
visit of Ivanka Trump, who publicly delivered an “aid” package of 400 
million dollars to the provincial president supposedly for “road works”. 
Alicia Canqui Condori, Bolivian national representative of the Movement 
Towards Socialism (MAS), referred to this trip and assured that “in 
Jujuy Donald Trump’s daughter had met with Governor Gerardo Morales to 
plan what happened in Bolivia”.

Now from Brazil it is reported that Bolivian General William Kaliman, 
who was in charge of “suggesting” President Evo Morales to resign, went 
to the United States just 72 hours after the military coup began, after 
receiving a million dollars from the United States Embassy in Bolivia 
from Bruce Willamson, in charge of business at that diplomatic 
headquarters. Some 500,000 dollars were also distributed to each police 
chief who left the country, as reported by the Redvolución portal. Net, 
from Brazil.

“Between the mutiny of the police that allowed the vengeful chaos 
against the socialists (Movement towards Socialism) and indigenous 
people and the inaction of the army, the coup was carried out,” say the 
investigators of that website.

Williamson contracted the military and coordinated everything months ago 
in meetings in the Argentine province of Jujuy under the protection of 
Governor Gerado Morales, one of the closest allies to Mauricio Macri,” 
he said in his report.

Those involved went to the United States, to avoid any investigation, 
and they were immediately replaced.  When self-proclaimed president 
Jeanine Añes appeared it was already all agreed upon according to 
Redvolucion.

At the same time as the threads of the plot was coming together there 
appeared the presence of Argentine security and military forces on the 
common border with Bolivia, who were installing some base as announced, 
to supposedly control drug trafficking, or by carrying out a series of 
maneuvers with advisors from the U.S. Southern Command. All of this 
without prior knowledge of the Argentine Congress.

Just days after Ivana Trump’s passage through Jujuy, Argentine soldiers 
began to arrive to carry out maneuvers in that province and neighboring 
Salta to be carried out between Sept. 22 and the first days of October, 
in the so-called “Operation Northern Integration of the Argentine Army,” 
involving some 2,000 troops.

The interesting thing is that these maneuvers were carried out by the 
Rapid Deployment Forces Battalion (FDR) created in June of this year by 
Defense Minister Oscar Aguad, at the request of the U.S. Southern 
Command and based on signed agreements where these forces also committed 
to “support” U.S. actions in the region.

Also participating were troops from the Army’s Fourth Airborne Brigade 
and Aviation, as well as helicopters, fighter planes and paratroopers 
simulating attack activities and aerial guidance, as announced by FDR 
commander general Martín Paleo. The border areas of Jujuy and Salta 
where the maneuvers were carried out are strategic in the military 
designs of the Southern Command.

But something that is even more serious is that after years of standing 
idle, the General Belgrano freight train was mobilized to transport all 
kinds of military equipment for the maneuvers.  And given the situation 
in Bolivia and the constant diplomatic and consular confrontations led 
by Gerardo Morales, as well as the meetings with the groups, especially 
the coup plotters of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the situation of this 
governor (who holds more than a dozen political prisoners, such as the 
social leader Milagro Sala) became more aggravated. Also, there are 
strong suspicions of what actually was carried out in the Freight train 
in its large transport capacity.

The entry of 200 military brigadistas into Bolivia during the past arson 
attacks will also be investigated and accusations against the opposition 
in the Bolivian Amazon, a topic that was used for a strong campaign 
against Morales at election time. Everything is suspect at this moment, 
especially of the security and military agreements signed by Macri’s 
government, not only compromising national sovereignty, but also the 
relationship with neighboring countries, without ever having consulted 
Congress.

Resumen Latinoamericano, translation, North America bureau

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