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<h1 class="reader-title">Macri and the US Involvement in the
Bolivian Coup Starting to Emerge</h1>
By Stella Calloni on November 18, 2019</div>
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<p>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, <span id="more-11204"></span>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 “<em>The Rocket to the
Moon</em>” directed by journalist Horacio
Verbistky points out.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <em>Pro
Mujer</em> 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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Resumen Latinoamericano, translation, North
America bureau</p>
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