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Evo to take proposal against military
bases to UNASUR
LA
PAZ, August 26.— Bolivian President Evo Morales
announced today that he is to propose a continental
referendum on the installation of U.S. military
bases in the region at the upcoming Union of South
American Nations (UNASUR) Summit.
 “It
is the people who should decide as to whether
uniformed foreigners should be in South America and
not the empires,” affirmed the head of state during
a public gathering in the town of Coipasa in Oruro
department.
He
stated that the United States is advancing a policy
aimed at disintegrating the subcontinent in order to
subject it to its control and provoke friction among
the governments of countries in the region.
On
various opportunities, the president has stated that
allowing the presence of foreign military troops in
the region is an insult and a gesture that
discredits members of the armed forces and police in
all the nations.
Morales’ position is in response to Colombia’s plans
to sign an extension of its military agreement with
the United States that would include the use of
seven military bases in the South American country
by U.S. troops.
Representatives of UNASUR (Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru,
Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela) are to meet this
Friday in Bariloche, Argentina, within the rotating
presidency that Ecuador has occupied since August
10. (PL)
Translated by Granma International
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