Bolivia

Media Wonder: Why Can’t Venezuela Be More Like Bolivia?

November 29, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Western corporate media outlets have often cried foul when foreign elections don’t go the way the US empire wants them to, and find roundabout ways to label the violent attempts by vocal right-wing minorities to use military forces to overthrow leftist governments as “protests” rather than coups (FAIR.org, 5/16/18, 5/1/19). But it’s still rare to see them blatantly call for a right-wing coup without a hint of their usually subtler pretenses.

Bolivia: Junta Hunts Down Last Remaining Dissidents

November 28, 2019 Wyatt Reed, The GrayZone. Educate! Bolivia, Media, State Repression, US coup

La Paz, Bolivia – A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia’s democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power. Anyone perceived as standing against the status quo is now subject to being arrested on charges of sedition or terrorism. Dissident journalists and Morales sympathizers have been forced into hiding, leaving the house only when necessary. “It’s a fascist dictatorship, there’s no hiding it,” says Federico Koba, a left-wing journalist who asked that I not use his real name for fear of arrest. “There are paramilitary agents going around the city taking pictures and pinpointing who’s who. Who is a leader, who is recording the protests, who is recording the repression.”

Now The Interim Of US Self-Deception Over Bolivia

November 28, 2019 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! Bolivia, Media, US coup

Years from now, maybe a generation from now, it will be permissible to describe Evo Morales’s resignation-at-gunpoint two weeks ago as what it was: a coup the U.S. cultivated just as it has dozens of others since it emerged as a superpower in 1945. The acknowledgement will not matter then. The events in question will be comfortably distant in time. Those responsible for deposing the Bolivian president will be either retired or deceased. Americans will not have fooled any Bolivians, for this autumn will be etched in their memories, but Americans will have once again fooled themselves. This is how it often goes when Washington crushes the democratic aspirations of others by toppling legitimately elected leaders and replacing them with figures — usually corrupt, often dictatorial, by definition undemocratic — to its liking.

Evidence Talks: US Government Propelled Coup In Bolivia

November 27, 2019 W. T. Whitney Jr., Chicagoalbasolidarity.wordpress.com Educate! Bolivia, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

A coup on November 10 removed the socialist government of Bolivian President Evo Morales. The U.S. government made preparations and orchestrated the final stages of the coup. It was in charge. In power for almost 14 years, Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera had won elections taking place on October 20. The two leaders would each have been serving a fourth term in office. Evidence of the U.S. crime appears below.

Bolivia: Anatomy Of A Coup

November 26, 2019 Jeff Mackler and Lazaro Monteverde, Popular Resistance Educate! Bolivia, Evo Morales, US Regime Change

The anti-Morales and anti-MAS mobilizations were orchestrated by the coup’s shock troops provided by various armed fascist groups. They met with little or no resistance. Their central leader was Luis Fernando Camacho, who soon emerged as a key player in the coup. Camacho grew up in the Santa Cruz Youth Union, [UJC in its Spanish abbreviation] a fascist paramilitary group notorious for racist violence against indigenous peoples, assaults, and assassination plots against Morales and other MAS leaders. The group has strong ties to fascist groups in Europe and strong links to the CIA.

Bolivia: The Coup Behind The Coup

November 26, 2019 Katu Arkonada, La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change

That desperate cry of Pedro Quisbert Mamani’s father, the factory worker murdered by government repression during the Senkata massacre, summarizes Bolivia’s process of change that is not understood yet by the coup mongers. If Evo Morales and the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) did anything at all, even beyond nationalizing the country’s natural resources or convening a Constituent Assembly, was giving dignity back to the wretched of the earth, the nobodies, the popular classes in a Bolivia turned into a Pluri-National State.

“We Refuse To Be Burned”: 500 Years Of Resistance, Colonization, And Coups In Bolivia

November 26, 2019 Maya Ajchura Chipana, Therednation.org Educate! Bolivia, History, Latin America

I am writing this because I don’t see many Bolivian voices represented in the media. Here is my story. I saw Evo Morales speak once in La Paz. So many people came out. The boys climbed trees to trying to get a glimpse of him. After each speech, there was a translation in Quechua and Aymara. My father worked for Evo’s campaign. He and my aunt traveled from village to village explaining to people in Quechua the importance of voting and of a socialist government. The people voted because they believed in change.

How Human Rights Watch Whitewashed A Right-Wing Massacre In Bolivia

November 25, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Propaganda

Bolivia is currently in turmoil after President Evo Morales was deposed in a U.S.-supported coup d’état on November 10. The new coup government forced Morales into exile, began arresting politicians and journalists while pre-exonerating security services of all crimes committed during the “re-establishment of order,” effectively giving them a license to kill all resistance to their rule. Dozens have died and massacres of indigenous protesters have occurred in the city of Cochabamba and the small town of Senkata.

Evo Morales: “Nationalization Of Resources Is Conflict’s Cause”- “They Do Not Accept That Indians Govern”

November 25, 2019 Staff, Orinocotribune.com Educate! Bolivia, Evo Morales, Latin America, Regime Change

The president deposed after a coup d’etat in Bolivia, Evo Morales, said that “the nationalization of resources is the cause of this conflict,” which resulted in a right-wing dictatorship that to date has left at least 30 dead . “Some do not accept that the Indians govern,” Morales added. He noted that the de facto government in his country published “a Carte Blanche” to slaughter people. ‘They issued a decree as if they have a carte blanche to kill Bolivians . That is only done in military dictatorship,” he said at a press conference on Wednesday, November 20, from Mexico City.

In Bolivia As In Palestine

November 25, 2019 Carlos Aznarez, Resumen Latinoamericano, translation North American bureau Educate! Bolivia, Class Struggle, Latin America, Palestine, Regime Change

Bolivia is resembling Palestine these days. For many reasons it is important to make this comparison now as the horror of the installation of a brutal dictatorship is unfolding in that South American country. First and foremost these are two native peoples who not only face an implacable enemy but also a religious factor that is among the most lethal weapons that could be used against them. In the name of a defamatory and unhealthy version of true Christianity, the Bolivian oligarchy in true Nazi style is promoting “racial purity”...

Bolivia: Hatred Of The Indian

November 25, 2019 Álvaro García Linera, Peoples Dispatch, translation Zoe PC Educate! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

Vice-president Álvaro García Linera reflects on the role of racial hatred in motivating the coup which forced him and President Evo Morales out of office and into exile. Almost as a nighttime fog, hatred rapidly traverses the neighborhoods of the traditional urban middle-class of Bolivia. Their eyes fill with anger. They do not yell, they spit. They do not raise demands, they impose. Their chants are not of hope of brotherhood. They are of disdain and discrimination against the Indians. They hop on their motorcycles...

Elections Between Witch Hunts, The Coup Plan In Bolivia

November 24, 2019 Marco Teruggi, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Bolivia, Election, State Violence, US coup

A colleague who had to leave Bolivia writes to me. She is being chased along with her partner who, they told her, they are looking for him to “liquidate him”. Since before Evo Morales was forced to resign, a list of names began to circulate; its application accelerated from that moment. It was Arturo Murillo, de facto government minister, who was responsible for putting it in black and white: he talked about “hunting” three leaders, after chasing parliamentarians accused of “sedition” and “subversion.” Communication minister Roxana Lizárraga pointed to “journalists and pseudo-journalists”, and on Thursday the Telesur TV channel was taken off of Bolivian television stations.

Bolivia’s Coup Gov’t Targets Alternative Media As Crackdown Turns Increasingly Violent

November 23, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change, Repression

Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “coup” gov’t in Bolivia is purging any potential threats to its authority, including teleSUR and other alternative media. Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “transition” government of Jeanine Añez in Bolivia has begun to purge and censor potential threats to its authority, including in the media. TeleSUR, an international media network that began as a collaboration between left-wing Latin American nations, including deposed President Evo Morales’ Bolivia and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez...

Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup

November 23, 2019 Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz, Fair.org Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Media, Regime Change

Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. Jeanine Áñez declared herself “interim president” in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12, proceeding to don the presidential sash with the assistance of uniformed soldiers. Despite a lack of quorum rendering the move nakedly unconstitutional, Áñez was immediately recognized by the Trump administration and 10 Downing Street. Tuesday’s scene seemed like a parody of January’s events in Venezuela, in which a virtually unknown lawmaker...

The Organization Of American States Has Deceived The Public, Terribly, On The Bolivian Election

November 23, 2019 Mark Weisbrot, Marketwatch.com Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, OAS, Regime Change

What is the difference between an outright lie — stating something as a fact while knowing that it is false — and a deliberate material representation that accomplishes the same end? Here is an example that really pushes the boundary between the two, to the point where the distinction practically vanishes. And the consequences are quite serious; this misrepresentation (or lie) has already played a major role in a military coup in Bolivia last week. This military coup overthrew the government of President Evo Morales before his current term was finished — a term to which nobody disputes that he was democratically elected in 2014.

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