Bolivia

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.

The Coup In Bolivia Has Everything To Do With The Screen You’re Using To Read This

November 23, 2019 By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Mining, Regime Change

When you look at your computer screen, or the screen on your smartphone or the screen of your television set, it is a liquid crystal display (LCD). An important component of the LCD screen is indium, a rare metallic element that is processed out of zinc concentrate. The two largest sources of indium can be found in eastern Canada (Mount Pleasant) and in Bolivia (Malku Khota). Canada’s deposits have the potential to produce 38.5 tons of indium per year, while Bolivia’s considerable mines would be able to produce 80 tons per year.

“They’re Killing Us Like Dogs” – A Massacre In Bolivia And A Plea For Help

November 22, 2019 Medea Benjamin, Popular Resistance. Educate! Bolivia, Massacre, Media, US coup

I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power. The coup has spawned massive protests, with blockades set up around the country as part of a national strike calling for the resignation of this new government. One well-organized blockade is in El Alto, where residents set up barriers surrounding the Senkata gas plant, stopping tankers from leaving the plant and cutting off La Paz’s main source of gasoline. Determined to break the blockade, the government sent in helicopters, tanks and heavily armed soldiers in the evening of November 18.

Macri And The US Involvement In The Bolivian Coup Starting To Emerge

November 22, 2019 Stella Calloni, Resumen-english.org Educate! Bolivia, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

On November 18, which is a holiday in Argentina, thousands of people occupied the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires against the coup d’état in Bolivia and in solidarity with the Chilean people, paying tribute to the victims and the resistance of the people, while evidence and condemnation continue to emerge about the complicity of the government of Mauricio Macri, and especially of the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales with the coup plotters and with the U.S. officials who support and direct them.

Impasse In Bolivia

November 22, 2019 By Forrest Hylton, Lrb.co.uk Educate! Bolivia, Class Struggle, Latin America, Regime Change, Uprising

Many of my friends and colleagues who live in La Paz are in hiding. Some have received death threats, while others are afraid to communicate via WhatsApp. One is in exile after vandals burned her house down. Because of shortages, the price of eggs has risen from less than one boliviano (11 pence) to 2.50, chicken has gone up from 15 to 35 bolivianos a kilo, beef from 30-40 to 90-120 bolivianos. Queues to buy chicken are interminable, and uncollected garbage piles up. Protesters have cut the capital off from its supply lines, and fuel is running out.

Bot Campaign On Twitter Fuels Confusion About Bolivian Unrest

November 22, 2019 By Zoe Schiffer, Theverge.com Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Media, Propaganda, Regime Change

Since last week, a network of Twitter bot accounts has been spreading confusion about the events surrounding Bolivian President Evo Morales’ abrupt resignation. The messages, which appear in English and Spanish, all carry the exact same text, beginning with the words, “Friends from everywhere, in Bolivia there was no coup.” Initial iterations of the tweet seem to have been written by an authentic critic of Morales, but the sentiment was co-opted and amplified by what experts say is a network of automated Twitter accounts.

31 US Organizations Denounce The Brutal Repression In Bolivia

November 21, 2019 Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Resist! Bolivia, Indigenous Rights, Massacre, US coup

We, the undersigned US organizations condemn the civic-military coup in Bolivia and the brutal repression unleashed by the police and military authorized by the self-proclaimed anti-Indigenous “President” of Bolivia, Senator Jeanine Áñez. The regime has burned the Wiphala, flag of the Indigenous nations of Bolivia; decreed an exemption to prosecution for the police and military for the use of lethal force against demonstrators; and has criminalized democratically elected officials and rank and file members of organizations associated with the deposed government. These decrees led to the massacre in Cochabamba on November 15 in which police and the armed forces opened fire on demonstrators killing five people and wounding more than 100, as well as the massacre of Senkata on November 19 in which at least 8 people were killed and at least 30 wounded.

Youth Shut Down Luis Almagro’s Talk In Paraguay

November 20, 2019 Telesur. Resist! Bolivia, OAS, Paraguay, US coup

Paraguay - Social and political organizations of Paraguay expressed their rejection of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, and at the same time expressed their solidarity with the people of Bolivia and the legitimate president of that country, Evo Morales. This Tuesday, Almagro, a Uruguayan national, planned to offer a talk on “Democracy and Development” at a private university in Asunción, however, social, political and student organizations threw the head of the inter-American organization from the academic venue, according to the collaborator from teleSUR in Paraguay, Osvaldo Zayas. In the expressions of repudiation there were shouts like "murderer!", "Almagro, your hands have blood!", "Coup!" And "Almagro fascist, you are the terrorist".

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