The US
government tried to put pressure on Evo Morales and blackmail him
into trying to make him change Bolivia’s economic policies,
according to Norwegian investigative journalist Eirik Vold, who spent
two years studying WikiLeaks documents related to the issue.
According to classified documents, it all started back in 2006 right
after Morales was elected as the President of Bolivia.
When Morales
sought to nationalize Bolivia's petroleum resources, the US
government threatened Morales in private telling him that it would
cut the financing of Bolivia by influencing policies of the
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank. When
Morales refused to give in, the US government began financing
Bolivian opposition groups, which sought to overthrow the national
government.
The
Norwegian journalist also said that the US government knew about the
plans of separatist movements in the Half Moon region. The
separatists wanted to blow up pipelines and resort to other violent
measures in an attempt to force the government of Morales to
recognize their demands.
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