Bolivia decries foreign military bases

Bolivia: Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced on Wednesday the presence of foreign military bases in the region as a real threat to peoples' sovereignty.

At the inauguration ceremony of the Armed Forces academic year in southern La Paz, Morales said that in view of the new offensive of the empire, we need to raise the dignity of Bolivians and their social forces. In an obvious reference to the United States, he called for building a new military doctrine amid foreign attacks under the pretext of fighting terrorism or drug trafficking.

Morales said that the real objective of the presence of these military facilities of the empire is to monopolize natural resources in Latin America, threatening with death to left wing Governments and checking the growing process of change.

He urged Armed Forces members to launch a national and international crusade for the rights of the Pachamama (Mother Earth), affected by the interests of the transnationals, which pollute the planet only to achieve their commercial benefits. La Paz, Prensa Latina