Coup watch. Watch out Bolivia!!!

December 20, 2005 -- Coup watch. CNN (the Corporate News Network) referred to the stunning election victory of Movement Towards Socialism leader and Aymara Indian Evo Morales in Bolivia's presidential election as a "nightmare vote." With Morales now putting Bolivia firmly into the anti-Bush Latin American bloc (soon to be joined by Nicaragua, Mexico, and possibly Peru and Ecuador), there will be more stories about cocaine smuggling (Morales headed the coca growers' union) and Chavez's and Fidel Castro's "interference" in other Latin American nations. The U.S. military will now increase its presence in Paraguay (where it has a huge airbase) and Ecuador to rattle the sabers at Morales and his other Latin allies.