Clashes rock Bolivia as new interim leader challenged

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Luis Andres Henao and Paola Flores, Associated Press
Published 10:33 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2019

La Paz, Bolivia – Renewed clashes rocked Bolivia’s capital Wednesday as the woman who claimed the presidency, a second-tier lawmaker thrust into the post because of a power vacuum, faced challenges to her leadership from supporters of the ousted Evo Morales.

A day after Jeanine Añez assumed power, violent clashes broke out between rock-throwing Morales’ backers and police in riot gear, who fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the large crowd of protesters as fighter jets flew low overhead in a show of force.



A supporter of Bolivia's former President Evo Morales yells at a police officer, telling him to respect the nation's indigenous people in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko, AP)

Opposition was also building in Congress, where lawmakers loyal to Morales were mounting a challenge to Añez’s legitimacy by trying to hold new sessions that would undermine her claim to the presidency. The sessions – dismissed as invalid by Añez’s faction – added to the political uncertainty following the resignation of Morales, the nation’s first indigenous leader, after nearly 14 years in power.

In the streets, angry demonstrators tore off corrugated sheets of metal and wooden planks from construction sites to use as weapons, and some set off sticks of dynamite. Many along flooded the streets of the capital and its sister city of El Alto, a Morales stronghold, waving the multicolored indigenous flag and chanting, “Now, civil war!”

Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2019/11/13/clashes-rock-bolivia-new-interim-leader-challenged/40611061/

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(It's likely the reason the cop's cheek is swollen so much is that he's probably chewing coca leaves. I did a double take myself, then I remembered it's a common thing to do, they sell it in bags everywhere.)

[Judi Lynn]

1. U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo congratulates Bolivia's interim president

NOVEMBER 13, 2019 / 8:27 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday congratulated Jeanine Anez, a Bolivian senator who became interim president of the South American country following the resignation of Evo Morales, the State Department said.

“The United States applauds Bolivian Senator Jeanine Anez for stepping up as Interim President of State to lead her nation through this democratic transition, under the constitution of Bolivia and in accordance with the principles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” Pompeo said in a statement.

Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bolivia-election-usa/u-s-secretary-of-state-pompeo-congratulates-bolivias-interim-president-idUKKBN1XO08B?rpc=401&

(Short article, no more at link.)

[Delphinus]

11. I heard an NPR

story yesterday, Here & Now, with a professor who studies this area, and he said Jeanine Anez believes the indigenous peoples' rites and celebrations are satanic.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. This whole situation stinks to high heaven. I am positive we are not being given all the details.

Thanks for all the postings on this internal conflict Judi Lynn.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Absolutely true. Sometimes the actual facts aren't available because they get classified

and remain classified for ages before some determined person keeps making Freedom of Information requests, and they get declassified and available long, long afterward, like the Operation Northwoods files, the schemes concocted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to create a hosts of situations which would be so inflammatory, so emotionally upsetting, it would be an easy shot to get support from the US citizens to attack Cuba.

This example really could sicken people who have been gullible since childhood:

Operation Northwoods
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Operation Northwoods memorandum (13 March 1962)[1]

Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who was in charge as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.[3][4][5]

Communists led by Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba in 1959, which aroused the concern of the U.S. military due to the Cold War. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government.[1][6] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:

The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.

Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington".

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Surely glad you are studying this kind of information, and not simply swallowing what corporate media will feed us. Thank you, very much.

[hack89]

6. Northwoods was firmly rejected by JFK and cost Lemnitzer his job.

So how is Northwoods an example of how bad the US in the world when the system seemed to reject a crazy plan with no hesitation?

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Kennedy rejected NORTHWOODS

How many have been accepted by the warmongers who succeeded him?

Gulf of Tonkin.

Saddam & 9-11.

WMDs.

[hack89]

8. But why is Northwoods consistently recycled as proof of American evil in the world

When it is really exactly the opposite?

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Apart from DU, it hasn't been brought up by anyone in my life.

Thank Elvis for DU and DUers! Perhaps they want to keep important history alive. I certainly don’t see anyone raise it in conversation.

Good point about JFK doing the right thing, hack89. He did the same during Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis — took the road of peace when almost all around him counseled war.

[Judi Lynn]

10. You haven't heard about it because it was classified, gov't kept it secret, of course.

Only those reading James Bamford's book learned about it right away, and information spread after that.

How many conversations do you really hear with people discussing details of US actions and policy toward the Americas since the 1800's?

How often do you hear people discussing U.S. Gov't interventions in Latin American governments in that same time frame?

How many people do you know who know what has been happening since the Monroe Doctrine?

How many people do you know who really know what has happened to the original Americans in this country?

[oldsoftie]

5. No one expected a transition from a dictatorship to be totally peaceful.

Of course Evo's henchmen will foment disruptions among the people. But the people are who finally put enough pressure on him to get out. The military is on the people's side. They will win out over failed socialists eventually.

[obamanut2012]

12. lol calling Evo a dictator and a failed Socialist

Your agenda is out and proud, isn't it?

[ChubbyStar]

13. BRAVO!

[oldsoftie]

14. I deal with facts as presented. The people have spoken. The Illegal dictator is gone.

Hopefully one day soon the poor people of VZ will free themselves as well. Before another 100000 die.

[EX500rider]

15. Well he did ignore term limits to get re-elected. nt