Latest editorial
A billboard of Bolivia's former President Evo Morales
BRITAIN supported the military coup in Bolivia to gain access to the country’s lithium reserves, an investigation by Declassifed UK claimed today.
The British embassy in La Paz supported Bolivia’s new regime after socialist president Evo Morales was forced to resign, despite the deadly violence that was condemned by human-rights groups following the coup, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the investigative news site.
Declassified has seen a project list for a Foreign Office programme in Bolivia named “Frontline Diplomatic Enabling Activity,” which the British government describes as a “small pot of money that [embassies] receive and have authority over to spend on projects supporting [embassy] activity.”
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
