22 November 2010

BOLIVIA: Morales Lectures U.S.: We Will Pick Our Own Friends Including Iran.

LINK CHANGE/ LATIMES/ MORE DETAILS/ 23 NOV/
       While hosting a conference, President Evo Morales lectured attending U.S.officials including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for an hour.
   "Bolivia under my government will have an agreement, an alliance, to anyone in the world," Morales said. "Nobody will forbid us."
     Morales defended the spread of Iranian and Russian business in Latin America and told the U.S. not to complain.
      He also went on to list the history of attempted coups, alleged election- and vote-tampering, military meddling and alleged conspiracies involving the United States.