Bolivia
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Bolivia News Links 15 November 2019
15 November 2019 • 20:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Chilean Elites Cannot Be Trusted to Write New Constitution, Activists Say https://truthout.org/video/activists-say-chilean-elites-cannot-be-trusted-to-write-new-constitution/ Bolivia: Some Soldiers Have Rejected the Coup and March with the Protesters https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/bolivia-some-soldiers-have-rejected-the-coup-and-march-with-the-protesters/ Continue reading
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Business as Usual: Evo Morales and the Coup Condition
There is inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that signals coup, assassination and disruption. No state is ever allowed to go through what is weakly called a transition, except over corpses, tortures and morgues. Continue reading
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After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a series of coups, often conducted… Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 12-13 November 2019
13 November 2019 • 18:10 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back MAS: Resist, so that tomorrow we can fight again https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/movement-towards-socialism-mas-resist-so-tomorrow-we-can-fight-again ‘We Don’t Want Any Dictators’: Bolivians Flood Streets to Protest Right-Wing, Anti-Indigenous Coup https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/14/we-dont-want-any-dictators-bolivians-flood-streets-protest-right-wing-anti?cd-origin=rss Continue reading
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Bolivia Does Not Exist: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2019)
On November 10, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Ayma was removed from office. Technically Morales resigned, but the conditions for his resignation had been set by the Bolivian oligarchy (egged on for thirteen years by the United States government, as Noam Chomsky and I indicated in this statement the day before the coup). Having won re-election for the fourth… Continue reading
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In the Midst of Violent Repression, Bolivian Demonstrators Reject the Coup and Demand the Resignation of Jeanine Áñez
La Paz, Nov. 13 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian police today violently prevented Senator Adriana Salvatierra from entering Parliament as evidence of increased repression against Evo Morales’ supporters. Continue reading
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Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military’s School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10. Continue reading
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Watch: Bolivia’s military coup has demolished the country’s democratic process
Bolivia’s military coup has demolished the country’s democratic process. Anya Parampil explains why a November 13 vote in the Bolivian senate is so crucial. The vote takes place a day after an unknown opposition lawmaker, Jeanine Áñez, declared herself president of the senate and country without any democratic mandate. Meanwhile, state security forces have launched… Continue reading
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Fascist Senator Appoints Herself President of Bolivia
Opposition Senator Jeanine Áñez declared herself president of Bolivia on Tuesday, despite not meeting with the constitutional requirements for such a move, as Parliament did not achieve a quorum because the lawmakers of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) could not attend, due to a lack of guarantees for their security. MAS has a majority in… Continue reading
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Lessons To Learn From The Coup In Bolivia
The coup in Bolivia is devastating for the majority of the people in that country. Are there lessons to be learnt from it? Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 12-13 November 2019
13 November 2019 • 16:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The OAS in Bolivia: A Tool for US Imperialism ‘Evo, I hope your exile is short’: Roger Waters sends message of support to Bolivia’s Morales (VIDEO) Continue reading
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Resignation of Bolivia’s Evo Morales was no victory for democracy, but a US-sponsored coup
Evo Morales, an indigenous leader who bucked the IMF and condemned US imperialism, has been pressured by the military to resign after winning an election. Yet Washington calls this blatant coup in Bolivia a victory for democracy? Continue reading
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Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and multi-millionaire – with foreign support
When Luis Fernando Camacho stormed into Bolivia’s abandoned presidential palace in the hours after President Evo Morales’s sudden November 10 resignation, he revealed to the world a side of the country that stood at stark odds with the plurinational spirit its deposed socialist and Indigenous leader had put forward. Continue reading
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The City of El Alto Defends Evo Morales Amid Repression
The center of La Paz has been transformed into a scenario of barricades, queues to purchase in the few businesses that are open, transportation halted, neighbours stationed on corners crossed by barbed wires and zinc sheets. Near Plaza Murillo, the center of political power, groups pass by wearing helmets, shields, gas masks, Bolivian flags, police… Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 12 November 2019
12 November 2019 • 17:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Bolivia: Police Shoot Anti-Coup Protesters in El Alto The Conservative Tide Is Losing in Latin America – That’s Why Morales Had To Go Imperialist imprint in Continue reading
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Coup Plot in Bolivia against Evo Morales: Selected Stories
12 November 2019 — Global Research World Leaders, Organizations Condemn Coup Against Evo Morales in Bolivia By Telesur Cuba’s government was also quick to reject the coup as President Miguel Diaz-Canel urged for “the world to mobilize for the life and freedom of Evo.” Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorpraised Morales’ decision to put the people first over his mandate. Continue reading
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Statement by the Political Committee of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism) of Bolivia
Today, November 10, Bolivia’s humble citizens, its workers, the Aymara and Quechua peoples, we begin the long road of resistance to defend the historical achievements of the first indigenous government that ended today with the forced resignation of our president Evo Morales at the hands of a civilian-police coup. Continue reading
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Coup in Bolivia rejected worldwide
Political parties, politicians, leaders of people’s movements and academics have sharply condemned the civic-military coup carried out yesterday against the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales. Morales and his vice-president Álvaro García Linera, as well as ministers and other members of his government, were cornered into resigning after the right-wing opposition scaled up acts of… Continue reading
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Urgent Words on Bolivia
11 November 2019 — Internationalist 360° Edgardo Mocca The illegal dismissal of President Evo Morales in Bolivia marks the end of an era. Since Argentina’s democratic recovery in 1983, the armed forces had not emerged as a decisive actor in a process of breaking the constitutional order in Latin America. It is clear that military personnel Continue reading
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