Regime Change

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...

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.

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.

Bolivia – A Color Revolution – Or A New Surge For Latin American Independence?

November 20, 2019 By Peter Koenig, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Nationalism, Regime Change

It’s become a classic. It’s being called a Color Revolution, and it’s been taking place on all Continents. The list of victim-countries includes, but is not exhaustive – Colombia, Honduras, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, in some ways also Uruguay (the current left-leaning government is powerless and has to remain so, otherwise it will be “changed”… that’s the name of the game) – and now also Bolivia. – Then there are Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Indonesia...

NLG Statement On The Military Coup In Bolivia

November 20, 2019 Staff, Nlginternational.org Educate! Bolivia, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) strongly condemns the military coup that took place in Bolivia on November 10, followed by the self-declared presidency of extreme right-wing Bolivian senator Jeanine Áñez, in violation of the Constitution of Bolivia. There is strong evidence that U.S. elected officials and agencies worked to foment this coup in the Plurinational State of Bolivia against elected President Evo Morales, at the expense of indigenous people, campesinos and social movements of the poor and working class and in violation of the OAS Charter, the UN Charter and international law and resolutions.

Evangelical Groups Are The New U.S. Tool For Coups In Latin America

November 20, 2019 Staff, Resumen Latinoamericano, translation, North America bureau Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, Religion

There are not enough intellectual tools to analyze the religious war used by the United States to support its coup d’états in Latin American countries. This is how historian and theologist Enrique Dussel comments about the ousting of Evo Morales in Bolivia and the region’s current political scenario. Interviewed by Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, Dussel recalled that in the region, “Bolivia, together with Haiti, were the poorest countries and while its wealth increased as no other. No one would have expected a reaction there.

The Coup D’Etat In Bolivia Is A Coup Against The Region

November 19, 2019 Staff, Indefenseofhumanity.org Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change

The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity reiterates its most emphatic rejection of the coup d’état against President Evo Morales, his government and the democratic institutions of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which has submerged the country into an escalation of violence against the people, its historical project and even against other countries. We denounce the systematic persecution being carried out against political, social, indigenous and peasant organizations and against any initiative or mobilization to demand the return to democratic institutions.

Venezuela Rejects Coup-Mongering Calls From The US

November 19, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

The Venezuelan government rejected Saturday a statement from United States Vice President Mike Pence, who called on the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to carry out a coup d'etat in the country. 'We urge the Venezuelan military to join the Venezuelan people, not a despot. The Venezuelan army should be a force of good, the power to change for the better is in your hands," Pence tweeted in his attempt to incite the FANB to revolt against the legitimate authorities of the South American nation.

Direct From Bolivia: Popular Resistance Mounts Against The Coup

November 19, 2019 The Organizer, Socialistorganizer.org Resist! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change

The burning of the Whipala means the return to the heinous racism and discrimination by the traditional right wing. This action by the coup government, together with the self-proclamation by supposed “president” Jeanine Añez, has triggered the mobilization of scores of popular sectors, neighborhood councils, and youth from the city of El Alto, the main bastion of the struggles of October 2003 and 2005 that succeeded in ousting then-president Gustavo Sanchez de Lozada, known as the “Gringo Goni.”

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