Bolivia's Morales defiant against the US over its ties to the Iranians who have just been told to leave by their former Gambian allies

 In a blunt message to the U.S. at a regional defense ministers' forum attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the 'colorful leftist' Bolivian President Evo Morales said that 

"Bolivia under my government will have an agreement, an alliance, to anyone in the world,"

"Nobody will forbid us,"

 Morales is allied to Communist Cuba, left-wing anti-American Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the Iran.

 He has expressed interest in buying Iranian aircrafts for the Bolivian military and wants to build a nuclear power plant with Iranian help.

 Gates replied that Bolivia was free to ally itself with anyone but that it “needs to be mindful of the number of United Nations Security Council resolutions that have been passed with respect to Iran's behavior.”

Source: AP

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