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The emerging Bolivian narco-state and Iranian influence in the U.S.’s backyard

November 25, 2009 in National Security

While our administration snuggles up to leftist Latin American dictators in joint condemnation of the Honduran government’s decision to deport the Chavez want-to-be president, Senor Zelaya, there is no reaction to the descent of Bolivia into a leftist narco-state. Mary Anastasia O’Grady of The Wall Street Journal writes an informative article about the coca growers leader, current president, Hugo Chavez protegee, and future jefe-for-life, Evo Morales. Morales, like his mentor Chavez and his leftist fellow-thugs-in-chief in Ecuador and Nicaragua, is getting increasingly cozy with Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad and the Iranian autocracy. As Hugo Chavez is able to expand his influence in Latin America through his grandiose”Bolivarian revolution” because of what is at the very least benign neglect by the Obama administration, and as Iran is invited to ever-greater presence in the U.S.’s backyard, another foreign policy and national security headache is created for whoever succeeds the current administration.

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