Bolivia’s Army Declares Itself Socialist

[Judi Lynn]

Caracas,
Wednesday
November 17,2010
Bolivia’s Army Declares Itself Socialist

LA PAZ – Bolivia’s army, which celebrated its bicentennial over the weekend, declared itself “socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist,” as President Evo Morales had asked it to do several times.

The constitution adopted in 2009 “clears the way for the army to develop as a socialist, communal institution,” army chief Gen. Antonio Cueto said.

“We declare ourselves to be anti-imperialist, because in Bolivia no external power should ever impose its will on us...we must act with sovereignty and live in dignity. We also declare ourselves anti-capitalist because that system is destroying mother earth,” Cueto said in a ceremony on Sunday.

The army observes 1810 as the year of its founding, the year when the wars of independence against the Spanish crown began on what is now Bolivian territory.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Ernesto must surely be smiling down with this news

[CJvR]

2. Sounds almost like...

... South America is getting set for a new round of civil wars and military dictatorships.

Well lets hope it doesn't go that far.

[Peace Patriot]

3. On the contrary, South America is implement REAL democracy...

and when I hear the Pentagon declare itself for Mother Earth, I'll know that we have it here, too!

[Mika]

4. I can see it now. Really. I can. Only its not in South America.

Most of the S American countries have had their fill of US interventionism.

Now, poor Iraqis are dealing with it.

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