South America
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:34 pm
I've been remiss, as usual, this time for not posting on recent momentous events in Bolivia & Ecuador. I'll try to do better.
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Evo Morales proposes to create a Southern Anti-Imperialist Command
The president launched the proposal in an act for the anniversary of the Bolivian Armed Forces.
Last Wednesday during an event in the city of El Alto for the 194th anniversary of the Bolivian Armed Forces, the country's president, Evo Morales, launched a bold proposal. Convert the Anti-Imperialist Military School ( founded in 2016 ) into a “Southern Command” that defends the interests of Latin America.
Morales was responsible for highlighting the internationalist nature of the initiative since this new military body would be "of the people and for the people, not only for the Bolivian, but for the Latin American and the world."
Addressing the soldiers, the head of state said that "the future is loaded with new threats" for the region. "Interventions, extraterritorial weapons, financial blockades, economic sanctions and unilateral embargoes of criminal and genocidal scope," he said, clearly referring to US foreign policy.
Today more than ever, the Armed Forces defend our territory and protect our natural resources. We have nationalized the Armed Forces, while nationalizing our natural resources. We cannot conceive the preservation of our RRNN without the protection of our FFAA. pic.twitter.com/UF9wb2hinc
- Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) August 7, 2019
"The empire is more greedy than ever and wants to recover its apparent geopolitical privileges" through the "arrogant and abusive use of hegemonic military forces," he completed.
The countercommand
Within the US military structure there are ten Commands. The so-called Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM, for its acronym in English) has within its “area of responsibility” the 31 countries of America that are south of its territory, from Mexico to Argentina.
Created in 1963, it has historically been one of Washington's interference tools on the region. Either giving advice to the Armed Forces, supporting coups or direct invasions.
This has been complemented by the School of the Americas established in Panama in 1946 and which trained several generations of Latin American generals in the US military doctrine.
In response, in 2016 the Government of Bolivia created the Anti-Imperialist Military School for the Peoples of Abya Yala with the mission of changing the strategic orientation of Bolivian military political thinking.
In announcing its creation, Morales explained that “before there was a great school, the School of the Americas, where the best students of the Armed Forces, the Police went there to ideologize” and clarified that “it is a right, we respect it”.
"But we also have another school, not of the empire, but of the people," he said and added the importance of "liberating economically, politically, socially and culturally but also ideologically." That is why, since then, the anti-imperialist course is a requirement to ascend to the rank of captain in the Bolivian army.
For his part, Vice President Álvaro García Linera said that “the essence of the armed forces, a central state institution, is anti-imperialism. They were born facing the empire and colonization. This root cannot be lost, it must be consolidated, it must be enhanced ”.
On this basis, it is now proposed a command that is the counterpart of the American and can, at least, deter his interventionist actions.
Although the political winds of Latin America do not accompany regional integration measures such as the one proposed by Morales, the next elections in Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia itself could begin to set another trend.
https://notasperiodismopopular.com.ar/2 ... erialista/
Google Translator
I've not seen print articles on Ecuador but the video available is stunning.
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Evo Morales proposes to create a Southern Anti-Imperialist Command
The president launched the proposal in an act for the anniversary of the Bolivian Armed Forces.
Last Wednesday during an event in the city of El Alto for the 194th anniversary of the Bolivian Armed Forces, the country's president, Evo Morales, launched a bold proposal. Convert the Anti-Imperialist Military School ( founded in 2016 ) into a “Southern Command” that defends the interests of Latin America.
Morales was responsible for highlighting the internationalist nature of the initiative since this new military body would be "of the people and for the people, not only for the Bolivian, but for the Latin American and the world."
Addressing the soldiers, the head of state said that "the future is loaded with new threats" for the region. "Interventions, extraterritorial weapons, financial blockades, economic sanctions and unilateral embargoes of criminal and genocidal scope," he said, clearly referring to US foreign policy.
Today more than ever, the Armed Forces defend our territory and protect our natural resources. We have nationalized the Armed Forces, while nationalizing our natural resources. We cannot conceive the preservation of our RRNN without the protection of our FFAA. pic.twitter.com/UF9wb2hinc
- Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) August 7, 2019
"The empire is more greedy than ever and wants to recover its apparent geopolitical privileges" through the "arrogant and abusive use of hegemonic military forces," he completed.
The countercommand
Within the US military structure there are ten Commands. The so-called Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM, for its acronym in English) has within its “area of responsibility” the 31 countries of America that are south of its territory, from Mexico to Argentina.
Created in 1963, it has historically been one of Washington's interference tools on the region. Either giving advice to the Armed Forces, supporting coups or direct invasions.
This has been complemented by the School of the Americas established in Panama in 1946 and which trained several generations of Latin American generals in the US military doctrine.
In response, in 2016 the Government of Bolivia created the Anti-Imperialist Military School for the Peoples of Abya Yala with the mission of changing the strategic orientation of Bolivian military political thinking.
In announcing its creation, Morales explained that “before there was a great school, the School of the Americas, where the best students of the Armed Forces, the Police went there to ideologize” and clarified that “it is a right, we respect it”.
"But we also have another school, not of the empire, but of the people," he said and added the importance of "liberating economically, politically, socially and culturally but also ideologically." That is why, since then, the anti-imperialist course is a requirement to ascend to the rank of captain in the Bolivian army.
For his part, Vice President Álvaro García Linera said that “the essence of the armed forces, a central state institution, is anti-imperialism. They were born facing the empire and colonization. This root cannot be lost, it must be consolidated, it must be enhanced ”.
On this basis, it is now proposed a command that is the counterpart of the American and can, at least, deter his interventionist actions.
Although the political winds of Latin America do not accompany regional integration measures such as the one proposed by Morales, the next elections in Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia itself could begin to set another trend.
https://notasperiodismopopular.com.ar/2 ... erialista/
Google Translator
I've not seen print articles on Ecuador but the video available is stunning.