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Bolivia won't allow the United States cooperation through USAID
ABI
LA PAZ
Petroleumworld.com 08 30 07
During a press conference at the Legislative Palace the Presidency Minister, Juan Ramon Quintana said: "The Bolivian government won't continue to allow any intrusion or discretionary cooperation that reveals an ideological line contrasting with Bolivia's will".He stated that Bolivia has decided to carry on a deep process of change and those transformations are being affected by the United States through USAID. The North American cooperation did not adjust to the Bolivian State policies and the doors are open for them to leave if they don't go by the Bolivian policies.
Minister Quintana stated: "We will not allow one more day to go by with this type of unsupervised cooperation that is affecting our democracy, conspiring against the Bolivian citizen's right to freedom and disrespecting our national dignity. We will not be any foreign country's backyard." He mentioned the 54 percent of electoral votes won on the past elections as a clear sign of support to the present government.
Mr. Quintana also manifested that Bolivia is not rupturing relationships with the United States, neither is rejecting the US cooperation. Bolivia is restating the fact that the United States well appreciated cooperation through USAID has to respect and go by the sovereign Bolivian rules, standards and limits.
According to Minister Quintana there are 130 million dollars in cooperation through USAID and only 30 percent of that cooperation engages the Bolivian government, the remaining 70 percent is used by the United States at their own discretion without any type of association with the Bolivian government.
Mr. Quintana presented a list of organizations and names of Bolivians that are in the USAID payroll with extremely good salaries who are interfering politically with the Bolivian process of change.
ABI 30 08 07
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