Latin American Huff

“We don’t need a US embassy in Bolivia,” [Bolivian president Evo Morales] said. “My hand would not shake to close the US embassy. We have dignity, sovereignty. Without the United States, we are better politically, democratically.”

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Yes, but he won’t.

“A minister of one of these European governments personally told us by telephone that they were going to apologize because they were surprised, and that those who gave the order to aviation authorities in this country … were the CIA,” he said.

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In a show of support, Presidents Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, Cristina Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Jose Mujica of Uruguay and Desi Bouterse of Suriname met with Morales in the central city of Cochabamba.

Sadly, it’s just a show.

Correa said the leaders would “take decisions and show that we won’t accept this sort of humiliation against any country of (Latin) America.”

“Imagine if this happened to a European head of state, if this had happened to the president of the United States,” [...] he said. “They think they can attack, crush, destroy international law.”

No. They KNOW they can.  And they'll get away with this, too, because there won't be any price to pay, and diplomacy only applies to whomever we say.  If the American people don’t rise up and do something about their government, no one is. And we’re not going to.