Bolivia

Do Not Belittle US Protesters By Calling Their Uprising A Color Revolution

June 22, 2020 By Andre Vltchek, Greanville Post. Educate! Anti-Racism Protests, Bolivia, Color Revolution, Hong Kong, Venezuela

Those who are promoting the term Color Revolution are actually confusing the situation. During the last years and decades, the West has been using many different tactics on how to overthrow governments, subvert legitimate movements and revolutions, and deter revolutionary and anti-colonialist struggle. Each has to be examined and exposed separately, individually. Otherwise, it would create indigestible, on purpose confusing mass, and further damage independence struggle. Otherwise, nihilism would be spread, and revolutionary zeal deterred. The protesters should be discouraged, let alone ridiculed. Those who are fighting for justice, and for the entire world, should be embraced and full-heartedly supported

Bolivia Under Dictatorship: US The Real Power

June 7, 2020 Stella Calloni, Internationalist 360. Educate! Bolivia, COVID-19, Evo Morales, US Regime Change

A little more than six months after the coup d’état (10-11 November 2019) against President Evo Morales in Bolivia, now exiled in Argentina, he warned of the serious situation his country is facing under a de facto government headed by the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez, who in addition to repression involving massacres against the population and persecution and imprisonment of political leaders and militants, is systematically destroying the social and economic model and achievements of the overthrown government of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). Now that country is confronting the COVD-19 pandemic in the absence of state presence, while military threats are growing and war tanks continue to arrive from the interior of the country for military garrisons in the city of La Paz, the former president denounced in an interview in Buenos Aires.

Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months After The Coup

May 12, 2020 Verónica Zapata, Resumen English. Resist! Bolivia, Democracy, Elections, US coup

On November 10, 2019, a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia, navigated by the U.S., which managed to articulate the racist national oligarchy with the backing of the armed forces, the police and the paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of natural resources, mainly lithium, and to erase the example of a government with an indigenous face that for the first time since the genocidal conquest of America had come to power. On November 12, Áñez proclaimed herself president, giving way to repression, including the massacres at Sacaba and Senkata. The coup left 35 dead, 800 injured, more than 1,500 arrested and hundreds exiled. A hunt for leaders, former officials, and journalists continues to this day. Neoliberal policies have been applied and the country has been plunged into a political, social, economic, and food crisis.

Bolivia: Can the Left Win An Election Without Being Able To Organize The People?

May 8, 2020 Hugo Moldiz Mercado, Resumen. Educate! Bolivia, Democracy, Elections, US coup

Is an efficient and effective electoral strategy, regardless of the relationship of forces between the dominant and subordinate classes, what is predominant, even unique, for a leftist candidate to be able to win over a high percentage of the population and crown himself as a winning formula? Is it a general political strategy, with its political-electoral correlates, that builds “from below” a favorable relationship of forces in the social struggle, and then that translates into votes greater than those received by right-wing candidates, leading to a political-electoral victory? It is clear that much thought can be given to each of those questions. Other questions can even be incorporated in the same direction and make the subject even more complex. However, at the risk of appearing too simple, let’s go over some criteria.

Bolivia Vs Venezuela: COVID-19 Response Reveals True Nature Of Governments

May 4, 2020 By Federico Fuentes, Green Left. Educate! Bolivia, COVID-19, Pandemic, Venezuela

Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have put into sharp relief their true nature. This is perhaps no more evident than when we compare Bolivia and Venezuela. Despite having been installed as an “interim” president after a coup last November, Jeanine Anez is presented in the media as leading Bolivia’s “transition back to democracy”. On the other hand, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is regularly described as a “tyrant” or “dictator” presiding over an “authoritarian regime”. Yet, when we compare how these governments have responded to COVID-19, it is clear these labels bear little resemblance to reality. In Bolivia, the government was quite slow to react to the pandemic and, when it finally acted, did so in an incoherent manner. Eight days after the first cases were detected on March 10 the government closed the country’s borders and initiated a nightly curfew from 5pm–6am.

United Nations Expert: “The United States Is Committing Crimes Against Humanity”

March 23, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Bolivia, COVID-19, Sanctions, US coup

It was recently confirmed that the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, won the last presidential election in October. He was forced to resign in a US-assisted coup that has brought a violent and fascist government into power. We speak with Alfred de Zayas, a legal expert on civil and political rights and an independent expert to the United Nations, about the legal implications of the coup and interference by the United States in other countries besides Bolivia. Mr. de Zayas describes the US government's history of flouting international law and why the international legal system is unable to enforce those laws. He also discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and what the world needs in this time of crisis.

Studies Say Morales Won Fairly, UN & Latin American Institutions Must Take Action – Ex-UN Official

March 20, 2020 By Ekaterina Blinova, Sputniknews.com Create! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change, US Imperialism

The latest statistical analyses say that the Organisation of American States' conclusions about the alleged fraud in Bolivia’s October vote don't hold water. Ex-UN official Alfred de Zayas has explained what steps could be taken by international and regional bodies in the aftermath of the exposure and shed light on the US role in the Bolivian coup.

Who Will Win Bolivia’s Elections?

March 13, 2020 Alfredo Serrano Mancilla, CELAG Educate! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Regime Change

At this point in the year, Bolivia should be announcing an election date other than the presidential election in May. According to last year’s schedule, the regional elections (departments and municipalities) were scheduled to take place in the second half of this month. However, the interruption of the democratic order altered absolutely everything that was planned...

The Washington Post Must Answer For Its False Bolivia Coverage

March 10, 2020 Joe Emersberger, Fair.org Educate! Bolivia, Coups, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Regime Change

President Evo Morales won re-election in Bolivia’s presidential election last October 20, as pre-election polls predicted. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout. He beat his nearest rival by just over 10 percentage points, which meant a second round was not required.

Months After Supporting A Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia’s Elections Were Clean

March 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Bolivia, coup, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Regime Change

The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showing that there was no fraud in the October elections in Bolivia after all. The Post had for months claimed that President Evo Morales won the election fraudulently, thus justifying the U.S.-backed coup that ousted him weeks later.

OAS Should Retract Its Press Release On Bolivian Election

March 1, 2020 Mark Weisbrot, CEPR.org. Resist! Bolivia, Elections, Evo Morales, OAS

Washington, D.C. — The OAS statement yesterday on Bolivia’s election should be retracted, said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. On Monday, October 21, the OAS issued a statement expressing “its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results after the closing of the polls.” “The OAS statement implies that there is something wrong with the vote count in Bolivia because later-reporting voting centers showed a different margin than earlier ones,” Weisbrot said. “But it provides absolutely no evidence — no statistics, numbers, or facts of any kind — to support this idea. “And in fact, a preliminary analysis of the voting data at all of the more than 34,000 voting tables — which is all publicly available and can be downloaded by anyone — shows no evidence of irregularity.”

ALBA Rejects Disqualification Of Evo Morales’ Candidacy

February 26, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Evo Morales, Latin America

Member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for America- Peoples' Trading Treaty (ALBA-TCP), denounced this Saturday the disqualification of former President Evo Morales as a candidate for the Bolivian Senate for the May 3 elections. According to the statement issued by the regional body, the measure taken by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is further evidence of the continuing coup against Morales...

Dirty Tricks Are Afoot In Bolivia, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research

February 20, 2020 By Vijay Prashad , Thetricontinental.org Educate! Bolivia, Ideology, Latin America

In November 2019, the Bolivian army – with a nudge from the shadows – told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and then seek asylum in Argentina. Jeanine Áñez, a far-right politician who was not in the line of succession, seized power; the military, the fascistic civil society groups, and sections of the evangelical church backed her. Áñez said that she would hold elections soon, but that she would herself not stand in them.

Bolivia’s Coup In Practice

February 18, 2020 Guillaume Long, Tribunemag.co.uk Educate! Bolivia, coup, Latin America, Regime Change

Foreign policy, an area very much in the hands of the executive branch, has afforded Bolivia’s de facto president Jeanine Añez, who does not hold a parliamentary majority, an ideal outlet for her radical program. Within days of taking power, the Añez government had cut off relations with Venezuela, expelled its diplomatic staff, recognised instead the self-proclaimed government of Juan Guaidó...

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