coup

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy In Burma

March 3, 2021 Ramzy Baroud, Counterpunch. Educate! Burma, coup, Democracy, Western imperialism

What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by military decree and the imposition of Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as an unelected ruler. However, despite the endless talk about democratization, Burma was, in the years leading up to the coup, far from being a true democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the country’s erstwhile ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has done very little to bring about meaningful change since she was designated State Counselor. Since her return to Rangoon in 1989 and placement under house arrest for many years, Suu Kyi was transformed from an activist making the case for democracy in her country, into a ‘democracy icon’ and, eventually, into an untouchable cult personality.

Understanding The Complicated Politics And Geopolitics Of The Coup In Myanmar

February 11, 2021 Vijay Prashad, Pressenza. Educate! China, coup, Democracy, Myanmar

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Condemnation of the coup was swift, although there would be reason for hesitancy in the reaction: Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been the face of the democracy movement until her release from house arrest in 2010, ruined her reputation when she came to the International Court of Justice in 2019 to defend her country’s genocide against the Rohingya people. No longer is Aung San Suu Kyi the unalloyed symbol of democracy and human rights.

DOJ Now Says There Was No Plot To Kill Elected Officials

January 19, 2021 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Capitol, coup, Democrats, Department of Justice

The U.S. Justice Department has reversed an earlier assertion in court by prosecutors that protestors who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 had plans to “capture and assassinate elected officials.” Instead, the head of the DOJ investigation into the Capitol siege admitted that federal prosecutors filed a misleading statement before a federal judge in Arizona that was intended to prevent Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, from being released on bail. The DOJ said that though there were calls to kill officials during the two-hour takeover of the Capitol, no evidence has been discovered yet to prove any serious effort to carry out such a plan.

People’s Movement Is Faced With A Serious Threat

January 11, 2021 US Peace Council. Educate! Capitalism, Capitol, coup, Trump

The deep political and social contradictions of the U.S. capitalist system, which were becoming increasingly visible to the people during the past few decades, and had come to the surface with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, found their most glaring manifestation in the open riot of Trump supporters and the takeover of the Congress Building on January 6 th . The right-wing riot in Washington, DC on 6 January 2021 was a manifestation of the deepening economic and social crisis in the United States. High levels of social inequality and economic disarray engulfing the whole society, for which the U.S. ruling class has no solutions within the framework of the dominant capitalist order, has resulted in the loss of legitimacy of the state and its institutions.

A New Peru, Struggling To Be Born?

December 3, 2020 Daniel Willis, Alborada. Strategize! coup, Lawfare, Neoliberalism, Peru

While November saw two Peruvian presidents removed in a week and the emergence of a grassroots movement to defend democracy, there are no clear answers yet as to who will benefit in the long term. It is not the first time that Plaza San Martín, one of the major squares in Lima’s historic centre, has been surrounded by police and filled with protestors demonstrating against the country’s political elite, but this time something felt different. The week beginning 9 November saw a series of major demonstrations pop up around Lima, and across Peru, in condemnation of the removal of President Martín Vizcarra from power by the Peruvian Congress.

Is Peru Witnessing A Parliamentary Coup?

November 15, 2020 Zoe PC, People's Dispatch. Educate! Corruption, coup, Government, Peru

Peruvians have been taking to the streets to reject the impeachment and removal of Martín Vizcarra from the office of president on Monday, November 9. After a four-hour debate in the Peruvian Congress on Monday evening, Vizcarra was impeached with 105 members of Congress voting to remove him on account of “moral incapacity” due to his alleged involvement in acts of corruption. The impeachment is the tipping point in a conflict between the legislative and executive branches of government of Peru which had intensified in the last two years.

Massive Protests In Peru Against ‘Legislative Coup’

November 14, 2020 Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. Resist! coup, Neoliberalism, Peru, Police violence

Thousands of Peruvians have taken to the streets this week to protest the interim government of newly appointed President Manuel Merino, a member of Peru's center-right Popular Action Party who as head of Congress played a key role in ousting his predecessor, Martín Vizcarra, in what critics are calling a "legislative coup." As The Washington Post reported earlier this week, the removal of Vizcarra on Monday was "based on still-unproven bribery allegations," which critics called "a congressional coup staged by Machiavellian legislators desperate to halt his anti-corruption and political reform campaigns."

The Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump

November 9, 2020 Glenn Greenwald, Substack. Educate! coup, Fascism, Liberal class, Trump

That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy — a longing, a desire, a craving — has long been obvious. The Democrats’ own actions proved that they never believed their own melodramatic and self-glorifying rhetoric about Trump as The New Hitler — from their leaders joining with the GOP to increase The Fascist Dictator’s domestic spying powers and military spending to their (correct) belief that the way to oust The Neo-Nazi Tyrant was through a peaceful and lawfully conducted democratic election in which vote totals and, if necessary, duly constituted courts would determine the next president.

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: Amid New Crisis, Coup Government Seeks To Divide Spoils

October 5, 2020 Federico Fuentes, Green Left. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, coup, US Regime Change

Just weeks out from the October 18 elections, Bolivia’s coup government is again in crisis following the departure of three key ministers over an unconstitutional attempt to privatise an electricity company. It comes as polls show Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce potentially winning in the first round, less than a year after his party was thrown out of office by a right-wing coup. Relatively unknown senator Jeanine Áñez was sworn in as “interim president” last November following the coup against then-MAS president Evo Morales.

Mexico: Leaked Documents Reveal Right-Wing Plan To Overthrow AMLO

June 23, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! AMLO, coup, Mexico, oligarchy, Right-Wing

Some of the most powerful forces in Mexico are uniting in a campaign to try to topple the country’s first left-wing president in decades, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And they apparently have support in Washington and on Wall Street. Known popularly as AMLO, the Mexican leader is a progressive nationalist who campaigned on the promise to “end the dark night of neoliberalism.” He has since implemented a revolutionary vision he calls the “Fourth Transformation,” vowing to fight poverty, corruption, and drug violence — and has increasingly butted heads with his nation’s wealthy elites. López Obrador has also posed a challenge to the US foreign-policy consensus. His government provided refuge to Bolivia’s elected socialist President Evo Morales and to members of Evo’s political party who were exiled after a Trump administration-backed military coup.

Brazilian Military Curtails President Bolsonaro’s Power Over COVID19 Dispute

April 8, 2020 By Emir Sader, Brazil Wire Educate! Brazil, coup, COVID-19, Jair Bolsonaro, Military

Bolsonaro made threats he couldn’t carry out about replacing the Health Minister and reopening commerce. Now he is isolated and everyone has turned on him, as General Villas Boas admits. He’s been reduced to impotence. It remains to be seen how he and his children will react. We now have a kind of prime minister in General Braga Netto, who has taken on the role of coordinator of all ministries and, especially, health policy, to prevent Bolsonaro from committing any more acts of madness. The next stage is the government armoring itself to prevent the PT from winning the 2022 presidential elections. This is the next goal.

The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup In Haiti

March 9, 2020 Robert Roth, Haitisolidarity.net Strategize! Caribbean, coup, Haiti

On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a popularly elected Aristide government, the first one taking place in 1991 after he had served only eight months in office.

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.

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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