Bolivian President Evo Morales is claiming that the United States organized groups to kill him and asserted claims made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that the U.S. was planning to overthrow the Morales administration. According to Morales:

I’ve been informed recently how the U.S. had organized teams — groups to persecute Evo Morales, to kill Evo Morales. They haven’t been able to and now we’re organized, from unions to this political party and they can’t stop us anymore.

Of course the United States denied the charges. The U.S. Embassy in Bolivia stated through a statement last week:

We’re supporting democracy in Bolivia in a consistent manner and are looking for a constructive relationship with the Bolivian government based on dignity, mutual respect and common interests.

What isn’t clear is if the part of the U.S.’s support of Bolivian democracy includes support of Morales’s “revolución agraria” or agrarian revolution which was announced on Saturday. The plan includes the redistribution of 2.5 million hectres of land siezed by the government over the past 10 years to poor and indigenous farmers. The redistribution plans have met with criticism from business leaders, especially in the Santa Cruz area where the first redistributions are set to happen. Those local business leaders have threatened to form self-defense teams.

Via / Yahoo and Telemundo