Evo Morales
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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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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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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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We will come back, says Bolivia’s Evo Morales after rightist coup forces him to resign
Amidst a right wing coup, Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign Sunday. Evo’s forced exit from the Bolivian presidency was a right wing coup by army and police chieftains with imperialist backing. Continue reading
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Bolivian Mayor, Patricia Arce, Covered in Paint, Dragged Through the Streets by Right Wing Fascists (Racism, Misogyny)
Right wing protesters used as an excuse against the mayor, the death of two protesters in clashes that happened in another town. The woman was forced to resign on her knees after she was spray painted with red and subjected to hours of humiliation. Continue reading
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Bolivia Coup d’état: Evo Morales Resigns in the Face of Fascist Attack
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has announced his resignation from office after opposition groups, who do not want to recognize the election results of last October 20, launched a wave of violence. Continue reading
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The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons
The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons that our peoples and popular social and political forces must learn and engrave in their consciences forever. Here is a brief enumeration, as we go along, and a prelude to more detailed treatment in the future. Continue reading
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Bolivian President Morales announces his resignation
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has resigned, shortly after the country’s military urged him to do so. Two officials next in line to take over the government also left as the country is in turmoil after weeks of protests. Continue reading
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The Hours of a Coup Offensive in Bolivia
These are days and hours of coup offensive in Bolivia. The attempt to overthrow President Evo Morales is gaining strength, territory and capacity for action. Like an announced bullet that arrives from the front and has a date: before next Tuesday. Continue reading
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Bolivia: Audios Linking Civic, Ex-Military And US In Coup Plans
The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d’etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy in the Andean country . Continue reading
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Post-Electoral Polarization. New Stage of the Imperialist Conspiracy in Bolivia
When the Bolivian political electoral process was oriented towards the institutional strengthening of radical democracy with the victory of Evo Morales in the October 20 elections, the head of a conspiracy appeared, in its most conservative forms of racism, hatred and violence against the Indians and the people, through the regional oligarchies headed by the… Continue reading
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Bolivia: First Manifesto of the Anti-coup Coordinating Committee
In Bolivia, the old ruling classes and privileged castes were expelled from the strategic places of the State, and a democratic and popular bloc was imposed that to this day governs with sovereignty and national independence. Never were political and economic transformations so profound, which we DO NOT WANT TO RENOUNCE AND WE ARE WILLING… Continue reading
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Bolivian right-wing activates ‘electoral fraud’ contingency plan against Morales
President Evo Morales emerged victorious in the first round of presidential elections in Bolivia held on October 20 but the opposition is set on rejecting the results Continue reading
The New Dark Age 