AS Bolivia’s 2014 general elections draw closer, the United States is accelerating the implementation of its customary, largely unsuccessful, subversion strategies, well-known throughout Latin America and in Cuba, where they have been standard practice since the first years of the Revolution in the 1960’s.

Minimal investigation into the perverse, illegal history of U.S. intervention in Latin American countries with governments considered "adversary" shows that Washington has not developed any new tactics in its efforts to undermine revolutionary processes.

Among the habitual practices included in U.S. subversion plans, implemented by the CIA and other secret service entities, are continual campaigns to discredit leaders; create imaginary disagreements among leaders; exacerbate local conflicts and those with neighboring countries, in addition to manufacturing and financing unscrupulous internal oppositions.

Bolivia is now the target of these worn, shoddy U.S. tactics, since President Evo Morales is an "enemy" who must be removed, given that the movement of the dispossessed which he leads and his anti-imperialist, pro-integration stand are considered threatening to U.S. interests.

One of the baseless media campaigns which has recently intensified involves charges by conservative "spokespersons" and the discredited right-wing press about the President’s personal income.

Likewise, these same forces are commenting both domestically and internationally about "deep disagreements" between Morales and Vice President Alvaro García Linera, using racial innuendo given that the President is indigenous and his vice president white.

News has even been published anonymously in a South American country that Linera was implicated in an attempt on the President’s life, an insidious tall tale, evidently created in the hopes of resurrecting the time-worn imperial strategy of ‘divide and conquer.’

The U.S. is still trying this approach in Cuba, attempting to promote the idea that serious differences exist between the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro and current President Raúl Castro.

The fabrication of "peaceful oppositions" is a major focus in Cuba and Bolivia, as well as in Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua. These groups are trained and well-paid to follow Washington’s instructions, to parrot lies and criticize progressive leaders incessantly.

The Bolivian people and authorities are prepared for these attacks, which are very well coordinated by right wing sectors in the country and will intensify as the 2014 elections approach.

Media campaigns peddling misinformation about the President’s health are even to be expected, as has been the case in U.S. effort to undermine Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and many others, including foremost Fidel Castro.