(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
"El Gringo", Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, has fled Bolivia and returned to his home country, Miami, USA. There he will sit with other deposed dictators and melancholy dream back to grand days.
The United States is shocked by the development of one of the poorest countries in the heart of Latin America. The situation in Bolivia became untenable for the Bush administration, which first gave all support to President "El Gringo".
But after days of mass demonstrations that could not be stopped by the bloody conduct of the armed forces, the Americans realized that it was important to change horses.
The United States, therefore, on Friday last week forced its local supporters in Jaime Paz Zamora of the MIR and Manfred Reyes of the right-wing populist FNR to resell. Reye's departure this morning was coordinated with the US Embassy and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
If the governing coalition led by "El Gringo" had clung to power, the United States' prospects of retaining control of Bolivia would also have been much more difficult in the future.
Carlos de Mesa, who took over power last weekend, is also a reliable supporter of a continued dependence on the United States.
Before giving up power, President "El Gringo" accused CNN and the Spanish Colombian radio channel RLG of the Bolivian uprising for being controlled by the Colombian guerrillas and that the uprising was funded by drug money.
The president claimed, among other things, that tens of thousands of marching miners and farmers had been paid "three dollars a day".
When this became known to hundreds of thousands of protesters on Friday morning two weeks ago, the indignation of the masses exploded.
The US-backed "El Gringo" also suspected the lack of support from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as he had not expressed his support for "El Gringo" like the OAS and the rest of the Latin American heads of state.
This was also the only support that Gonzalo Sachez de Lozada leaned against. When the United States realized that time was running out, "El Gringo" decided to write a short letter to Congress. With a helicopter – like old dictators like Cuba's Fulgencio Batista and Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza – he left a people cheering in the streets, countryside and mountain plateau of Bolivia.
On the same day that "El Gringo" threw in the towel, 100 US citizens living in Bolivia demanded that the United States "not interfere in the political development of the country". They also reminded their president that "Bolivians have the right to decide for themselves about their political future, without pressure and sanctions from the United States".
