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### Viewing cable 08LAPAZ2458, BOLIVIA: BEFORE U.S. VISIT, EVO LASHES OUT

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08LAPAZ2458 | 2008-11-18 13:01 | 2010-12-03 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy La Paz

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L LA PAZ 002458

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/17/2018
    TAGS: PGOV PREL SNAR BL
    SUBJECT: BOLIVIA: BEFORE U.S. VISIT, EVO LASHES OUT

    REF: LA PAZ 2370

    Classified By: EcoPol Chief Mike Hammer for reasons 1.4 b,d

    ¶1. (SBU) Summary: In the days before his November 16
    departure for the United States, where he will speak at the
    OAS and UN and meet with U.S. representatives (Dodd, Lugar,
    Baukus and possibly others), President Evo Morales and his
    closest cabinet advisors lashed out at a wide selection of
    USG targets, claiming that the USG has a strategy of
    supporting a united opposition front against Evo for the
    December 2009 elections. Following the November 1 expulsion
    of DEA, Government Minister Alfredo Rada described the DEA as
    "insignificant" and said, "the world will not end with the
    end of the presence of the DEA." Evo announced that he is
    "after the CIA" last week, and in a November 14 interview the
    state news agency ABI cited Presidency Minister Quintana as
    saying that the "civic prefectural conspiracy" was "fed by
    the empire (the United States), financed by organizations
    that originate in USAID, the CIA, and the DEA." Speaking from
    Venezuela, Quintana added MILGROUP to the mix, saying that
    state security fired on civilians in 2003 (during the riots
    that led to the fall of ex-President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez
    de Lozada) because "no state security institution is not
    taught, indoctrinated, and intervened by the DEA, the CIA,
    and by MILGROUP." End summary.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Evo Accuses USG of Trying to Unite the Opposition
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    ¶2. (SBU) At a November 15 rally in Cochabamba, Morales
    accused the USG of trying to help form an opposition "front"
    to oppose his next presidential run: "I am almost sure,
    sisters and brothers, that the next elections (December 2009
    if the draft constitution passes in January), all the right
    will unite on instructions from the Government of the United
    States." At the same time, Evo reiterated his allegations
    that USAID finances "the opposition".

    ¶3. (SBU) Meanwhile, analysts are weighing in on the issue of
    a combined front against Evo, whether comprised solely of the
    "moderate left" (that is, the left without Evo's Movement
    Toward Socialism party) or united with less- conservative
    elements of what is now the conservative opposition party
    Podemos. Former president Carlos Mesa (an oft-mentioned
    contender for leader of the elusive non-Evo front) opined
    recently that "a single front (combining left and right) is
    not viable in the sense that there are very distinct
    ideological positions between which, eventually, there would
    be opposition, but this doesn't eliminate the possibility of
    a front..."

    ¶4. (C) Comment: Evo's pre-emptive strike against a potential
    opposition front--aligning them without evidence with "the
    empire"--appears to be an effort to set the stage for
    discrediting anyone who runs against him as a U.S. stooge.
    As of now the opposition is far from united, with as many as
    seven potential presidential candidates: former president
    Carlos Mesa, former prefect Manfred Reyes Villa, Tarija
    Prefect Mario Cossio, Potosi Mayor Rene Joaquino, Unidad
    Nacional party leader Samuel Doria Medina, former president
    Tuto Quiroga and even indigenous guerrilla Felipe Quispe. It
    is hard to envision how this disparate group would come
    together, in fact, many of the strategists for potential
    candidates complain to us that other groups and leaders will
    not step aside for the good of the opposition as a whole. End
    comment.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Continued Accusations Against USG Agencies
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶5. (SBU) According to press reports, Minister of Presidency
    Juan Ramon Quintana met in Venezuela on November 14 to
    propose a multilateral "strategic alliance" of governments
    and academics to defend the process of revolutionary change.
    Quintana reminded his audience of Bolivia's recent "torturous
    civic prefectural conspiracy" which he claimed had been "fed
    by the empire (the United States), financed by organizations
    that originate in USAID, the CIA, and the DEA." Back in
    Bolivia, Minister of Government Alfredo Rada was also
    leveling accusations at USG agencies, claiming that the
    Bolivian government must deeply review the actions of
    agencies such as USAID and DEA: "it is a process that demands
    a more-global evaluation to take the decision to normalize
    this relation, and that means new rules of pay, transparency
    in relations and respect for sovereignty." Rada said that
    DEA was welcome to share information in the counternarcotics
    fight, but the DEA is mistaken if it thinks it can "continue
    in the country or will return to the country to continue
    diverting resources of the fight against drugs to work of
    political destabilization or political investigation--that
    can't continue."

    ¶6. (SBU) Rada announced on November 16 that the Bolivian
    National Police who worked with DEA will be reviewed and
    those that might have worked "on the margin of the interests
    of the country" will be fired. Rada warned that if "the
    police acted as a foreign embassy in their own institution,
    there will be a separation of these people." He added, "If
    there are police who worked correctly, with good results, you
    can be secure that...they will be able to continue their
    work."

    ¶7. (SBU) From Venezuela, Presidency Minister Quintana added
    new accusations against U.S. agencies, claiming that US
    agencies were behind the 2003 decision of the government of
    then-president Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada to fire on
    civilians. "They consummated the most repugnant genocide in
    Bolivia, which was the genocide of the year 2003, when
    Sanchez de Lozada was expelled from the country. In the face
    of a lack of moderation, in the face of the doubts of the
    high military command to massacre the comrades en El Alto,
    the Military Group (MILGROUP) occupied the highest levels of
    the armed forces and took the decision that the armed forces
    had to massacre the people of El Alto to liberate a caravan
    that had to supply the city of La Paz with fuel. Therefore,
    this is not indirect intervention, this is not interference,
    (it is) direct participation in the genocide of the year
    2003." (Note: Over 60 people were killed in clashes between
    followers of Evo Morales--who had blockaded the capital city
    of La Paz--and government forces. The Morales government has
    repeatedly accused Sanchez de Lozada of genocide and recently
    began processing papers to request the former president's
    extradition. End note.)

    ¶8. (SBU) Following President Morales' November 11 statement
    that he and the government "are after the CIA too," Vice
    Minister of Social Movements Sacha Llorenti announced on
    November 17 that the presence of CIA agents is "prohibited"
    in Bolivia: "there exists no norm that would allow the
    presence of those agents in the national territory and to
    verify their presence in the country would be a grave action
    against our sovereignty." According to Llorenti, the
    government is investigating the possible presence of
    "external agents or of Bolivians who serve external
    agents....the government is decided, and in this there will
    be no step backwards, on the dignification of our country and
    of its institutions."

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    Comment
    - - - -

    ¶8. (C) Morales is already campaigning hard for both the
    constitution and his re-election, as can be seen by his
    standard attacks on the USG. His rhetorical attacks have now
    led to the expulsion of both the Ambassador and the DEA, and
    cannot be ignored as mere campaign stumping. USAID could be
    next, as there have been repeated high-level attacks and
    social-movement calls for its expulsion. Morales' new focus
    on Bolivian "co-conspirators" (either police working with the
    DEA or any political enemy Evo decides to describe as a CIA
    collaborator) will almost certainly instill fear among our
    contacts, who may become more cautious about meeting with us.
    His threat to expel the CIA from Bolivia means that any one
    of us can be (mis)identified as a spy and kicked out should
    we do--or be falsely accused of doing--anything that
    displeases Evo. End comment.
    URS

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