2020 Elections

Movement Towards Socialism Wins Landslide Victory In Bolivia

October 23, 2020 People's Dispatch. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, Socialism, US coup

After 11 months of being ruled by a repressive coup-regime, Bolivians have finally recovered democracy. After five days of counting, the official results of the Bolivian presidential elections are finally in. The Movement Towards Socialism’s (MAS) presidential ticket with Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca won 55.1% of the vote share while Carlos Mesa’s Citizen Community party won just 28.83% of the vote share. The MAS also won the parliamentary elections, bagging 73 out of the 130 seats in the lower house of parliament and 21 of the 36 seats in the Senate.

A New Revolutionary Alternative For The People Of Venezuela

October 23, 2020 Ben Lunn and Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis. Strategize! 2020 Elections, Left Politics, Socialism, Venezuela

For many on the left in Britain and within the heart of the global capitalist system, Venezuela has been an example of staunch opposition to US and Nato imperialism, with a broad collection of revolutionaries fending off multiple coups, mercenary attacks and resisting an imperialist blockade of late. This vision of defiance and tenacity has painted a very particular idea of what the experience is in Venezuela, which ultimately makes the formation of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR), a new bloc of left wing groups without the ruling PSUV, quite a remarkable surprise.

Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses

October 22, 2020 Lee Camp, Consortium News. Educate! 2020 Elections, Democrats, Joe Biden, Trump

So, Joseph Biden, AKA “Kid Senile,” leads in the polls against Donald Trump, AKA “Kid Fascist Lunatic,” by such a large margin that it resembles a horse race in which one of the horses is an aged wiener dog with three legs. Right now, even though the polling does not account for the millions of voters who have been unceremoniously booted from the voter rolls, many people believe Biden is going to become the next drunken pilot of the American Empire — a position which has less power than most people imagine as the Military Industrial Complex and Wall Street roll on undeterred due to their unimaginable inertial force like boulders in an avalanche.

Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment As Coup Government Concedes Defeat

October 21, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, Media, US coup

Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism (MAS) party is celebrating what appears to be a crushing, landslide victory in Sunday’s elections. Although official vote counting is far from over, exit polls show an overwhelming triumph for the socialists, and a repudiation of the right-wing military government of Jeanine Añez, who has ruled since the coup last November. At the same time, the corporate press appears less than pleased about the return to democracy for the Andean country. In order to win outright in the first round, the top candidate needs at least 40 percent of the popular vote and a lead of 10 points over their nearest rival...

Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack

October 21, 2020 Taryn MacKinney, the Union of Concerned Scientists. Educate! 2020 Elections, Austerity, Black America, US Postal Service

With just weeks until the 2020 election, the USPS is racing to prepare for a historic surge in mail-in voting. Our recent analysis of USPS records, which we received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that the number of mail-delivery complaints has risen since March, especially in communities of color. For nearly 250 years, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been a cherished giant of public life. Its reach is immense: In 2019, postal workers traveled 1.34 billion miles to deliver nearly 143 billion pieces of mail around the globe.

How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question

October 20, 2020 By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. Educate! 2020 Elections, Foreign Policy, Joe Biden, Wars and Militarism

Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed. “Our troops are coming home. Serbia is talking to Kosovo. And the Arabs and Israelis are talking peace, which I believe is a modern-day miracle, what’s going on. Does President Trump’s foreign policy deserve some credit?” This question encapsulated all the smoke and mirrors that Trump has used to confuse the public and obscure his broken promises to end America’s wars, bring our troops home and build a more peaceful world.

US Presidential Campaign Spectacle

October 20, 2020 Roger Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! 2020 Elections, Capitalism, Democrats, Republicans

With the seemingly interminable US presidential campaign season mercifully drawing to a close, the buzz is about a possible coup. That would make the US one of the few countries in recent history to experience regime change not masterminded by a US embassy, because there is no US embassy in Washington. There are other reasons why a coup is unlikely. Namely, most of the politically active public believe that they live in an exceptional democracy. This conviction is held despite the abysmal candidate choices they are given and the obscene mountains of money backing them.

Bolivia: People Power Prevails Over US-Backed Coup

October 19, 2020 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast 2020 Elections, Bolivia, Socialism, US coup

Last October following the re-election of indigenous president Evo Morales in Bolivia, the United States backed a coup that successfully forced him out of power. The coup regime reversed many of the gains made under Morales and waged violent and austerity policies against the people. A new presidential election was held this past weekend largely because of massive popular mobilizations over the summer that demanded them. I speak with Camila Escalante of Telesur English and Kawsachun News about the coup, the protests and the recent election.

Bolivia Elections Live Blog

October 19, 2020 the Center for Economic Policy and Research. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, coup, Socialism

Bolivians go to the polls today, Sunday, October 18, in the first general elections since the last democratically elected president, Evo Morales, was forced out in a military coup last November, two months before his term had ended and despite election results showing he had won another term in a first-round election victory. Today’s elections had been postponed twice: first from May to September, and then from September to October. While Jeanine Áñez, whose party had received just 4 percent of the vote last year, had taken office vowing to be a caretaker president until...

Bolivia Elections: All You Need To Know

October 18, 2020 Telesur English. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, Lithium, US Regime Change

Bolivia - According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, over 7.031.294 people are expected to vote out of the country's estimated population of 11.428.245 citizens. On October 18, the Plurinational State of Bolivia will carry its first presidential elections after a coup that forced former left-wing Indigenous president Evo Morales to resign on November 10, 2019. Following the coup, Bolivia has faced continued turmoil, political instability, and killings and persecution of progressive leaders promoted by the de facto government of Jeanine Àñez, who tried to change the election date several times to cling to power.

Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Creates Divisions

October 17, 2020 Oliver Vargas and Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, US coup, wealth inequality

Eleven months after a U.S-backed military coup overthrew the democratically elected Evo Morales and his Movement to Socialism (MAS) party, Bolivians will go to the polls on Sunday, offering them a chance to repudiate the coup government of Jeanine Añez, who has ruled the country since last November. The last year has been a period of constant political struggle, as the self-described “interim government” has fought to impose its rule on a rebellious population, attempting to bring sweeping changes to the Andean state.

Possible Recurrence Of OAS Electoral Fraud In Bolivia

October 16, 2020 Dan Beeton, CEPR.net. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, OAS, US Regime Change

Washington, DC — Bolivia’s general elections on Sunday, October 18, could again be threatened by the involvement of the Organization of American States (OAS), Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Co-Director Mark Weisbrot warns. On September 30, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro met with the de facto interior minister of Bolivia, Arturo Murillo, at the OAS’s Washington, DC headquarters. Following the meeting, Almagro Tweeted that Murillo had “conveyed his concern about the possibility of a new fraud” in Bolivia’s October 18 elections.

Morales Warns About US Meddling In Upcoming Elections

October 15, 2020 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, State Violence, US Regime Change

The former head of state made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Iran’s Hispan TV Spanish-language television network on Tuesday. Morales was seeking to nationalize the extraction of Bolivia’s lithium reserves when he was forced to resign last November under pressure from the military and following the opposition’s challenging the victory that he had secured in presidential elections a month earlier. The former president, who both himself and his Movement for Socialism (MAS) still wield influence in Bolivia’s politics, sought exile in Mexico back then and is currently residing in Argentina, closely monitoring the domestic developments.

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