By Mg. José A. Amesty Rivera on October 2, 2023.
CIA agent and US diplomat Debra Hevia
On September 14, the U.S. Embassy announced the arrival of the new Chargé d’Affaires to Bolivia, career diplomat Debra Hevia, with extensive experience in Latin America and specifically in Bolivia, where she has already served two diplomatic missions. Her most recent assignment was as deputy chief of mission in Ecuador and before that as political advisor in Romania. She has also worked in the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Slovakia and in the Office of Central American Affairs, as well as in the Operations Center of the U.S. State Department.
Now, what is the role and objectives of this Ms. Hevia in Bolivia?
Hevia, was appointed in the South American, Andean and Bolivarian country, to designate and position reliable personnel of the Biden administration in the US embassy, and thus continue the destabilization in the country, feeding and promoting the division between the different actors of the Bolivian government.
Specifically, her work is with the right-wing politicians in the Bolivian Congress, to continue torpedoing the relations of the Bolivian Executive (Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca) with Evo Morales.
Mrs. Hevia, since the 90’s, has been a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and State Department agent, following the guidelines of support to the regional right wing and destabilization in countries not aligned with the United States.
Likewise, she has had an impact in countries linked to drug trafficking, where she facilitated the attention of the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA, where suspiciously this institution, far from achieving its objective, every year in those countries drug trafficking has increased.
Let us also remember that she was the promoter during the government of Evo Morales, for the right wing in Bolivia to promote accusations and campaigns against Morales, seeking sanctions against the indigenous leader.
During her internship in the countries of the Latin American area, she has left chaos and death, specifically in Nicaragua, where she played a determining role in the attempted coup d’état of 2018.
Together with her predecessor in Bolivia, as Chargé d’Affaires Marcos Mandojana, she has promoted the campaign against Bolivia with the following axes: through media accusations, she has projected Bolivia as a narco-state; destabilization in countries in the area not trusted by the US.
In turn, the diplomat Debra Hevia, has participated in private meetings with the Colombian businessman Alex de la Rotta, a US resident, who develops activities against the government of Luis Arce.
Some of these businessmen have the job of attracting investors, where they have created a company in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, called “QKapital Bolivia”, fulfilling information tasks for the U.S. State Department. The money support is done through the Fassil Bank in Bolivia, making transactions to the US and Bolivia.
The Bolivian right wing, the State Department and this official, Hevia, have the intention of destroying the Movement for Socialism MAS-IPSP and Evo Morales (Evo himself has indicated that there are people in the Ministry of Government, who warn him about the alleged intentions of some authorities to hand him over to the US), before the elections of 2025 in Bolivia. Right wing Governor Luis Fernando Camacho has an leading role in this plan, to carry out a coup d’état with the support of citizens’ platforms, civic committees, the chamber of agriculture and livestock, and businessmen in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba.
Role of the “gringo” embassy in Bolivia
Let’s remember that, the US embassy in Bolivia, at least since 2022, has developed meetings with businessmen in the Hotel Los Tajibos in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as a support base for the US embassy officials, coordinating their plans against Luis Arce and Evo Morales, all this with the approval of the hotel owner Samuel Doria Medina, former vice-president of Jeanine Añez’s administration.
Likewise, the U.S. embassy in Bolivia has information about the situation of the police, the Bolivian government has no control over it, and it can become an element of conflict in the country. This situation is similar to what is happening in Ecuador.
There are police officers who are passing information about corruption and drug trafficking within the police and in the country, to the US embassy, in exchange for protection, and visas to travel to the US for themselves and their families, all behind the back of the Arce government.
One of the lines of work of the US embassy is to try to link the government of the Movement Towards Socialism and Evo with money laundering, corruption, drug trafficking, in order to cast a shadow over his image. All this, with the help of Debra Hevia and all her experience and experience in these tasks as we have already indicated.
To all of the above, it is added that the “gringo” State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), are working on the training of leaders of the business, academic and environmental sectors in cities such as El Alto, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro and Potosi, in order to achieve local support for their economic and political interests, without linking it to the Biden administration, as an action of interference and soft coup.
The interest in cities such as El Alto is associated to the high number of voters. The mayor of that city, Monica Eva Copa, is a figure that the US is following, as a future candidate in the next electoral contest.
On the other hand, last May, during the celebration of the 53rd Conference of the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas, an attempt was made to sell the image of Luis Arce as a dictator, and at the same time, US and European investment in Bolivia was discouraged.
Also, the “gringo” embassy seeks to generate an economic crisis in a short period of time, fomenting disenchantment among voters, taking advantage of all the back doors left by the administration of Jeanine Añez.
At the same time, the Latin America Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, together with the US government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is evaluating strategies to limit the access of China and Russia to Bolivian lithium, and in other South American countries.
That is to say, the Wilson Center and the IDB orchestrate financing projects that prevent the rise of industrialization and processing of the mentioned mineral in Bolivia, so that it does not have influence in the regional and global market.
Among the unhealthy projects of these institutions is the cutback of IDB financing, as well as the financing of opposition groups, linked to the environmental mining sector, to maintain hostility against the local mineral policy.
In this way, the strategy of attacking the Bolivian and Latin American economy, seeks to continue maintaining the old unipolar economic order of deceiving, bending and coercing on the part of the US. The exhaustion of the U.S. empire is such that its actions are making visible the true essence and interest of domination of natural resources and governments in the region.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – Buenos Aires