Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia 'Against the Many Violations to Democracy'

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From the article:

Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine Añez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.

Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.

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[triron]

1. If only Americans.....

[guillaumeb]

2. Yes.........?

If only most Americans cared more about democracy than they do about sports?

[malaise]

3. These RW Xtian extremists are everywhere

Run them

[guillaumeb]

4. And the US generally supports them.

All a part of controlling the non-white populations of Central and South America.

And the Caribbean, of course.

[malaise]

5. I lived through that shit in the 1980s

the Deliverance anti-socialist posse fighting socialists and liberation theology.

[guillaumeb]

6. And Nicaragua, and so many other countries.

But this history never makes it into the official histories.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Is there any chance Evo Morales could do a Hugo Chavez and return to power?

Asking for a friend.

[guillaumeb]

8. My opinion is that the US will support the far right in this.

The right is more favorable to US capitalists stealing from the country, as long as they receive their share of the stolen wealth.

[MarcA]

9. That's the usual bottom line. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

11. Bolivia is believed to have more than half the world's supply of lithium.

And lithium is valuable enough to steal, especially when China controls the other half.

In my perfect world, Bolivia would mine and refine their own lithium, sell it in a free market, and the profits would remain in the country. I can dream, can't I?

[guillaumeb]

13. But if the rich are allowed to exploit Bolivian resources,

the already too rich can get even richer at the expense of the workers.

[MarcA]

10. Still waiting to hear what Democratic Presidential Contenders have to say.

Other than Sanders have you seen Anything from any of the others,
I haven't.

[guillaumeb]

12. There could be reasons for the silence. eom