Make No Mistakes, Morales' Removal Is Directed Against Bolivia's Indigenous

[Judi Lynn]

NOVEMBER 13 ,2019 BY PAUL ANTONOPOULOS


It certainly has been a difficult year for reactionaries and neoliberals in South America as they failed to violently replace Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with U.S.-puppet Juan Guaidó, implement International Monetary Fund (IMF) demands against Ecuador after the people rose up, maintain the popularity of Chile’s billionaire President Sebastián Piñera’s after his attempts to raise the price of metro travel expanded into a larger anti-neoliberal movement, Evo Morales’ re-election in Bolivia, the election of Alberto Fernández in Argentina against neoliberal president Mauricio Macri, and, former Brazilian President Lula’s release from prison last week after serving a small part of his long sentence.

It certainly appears that the so-called Pink Tide, the wave of socialist and left-leaning governments that came to power across Latin America in the 2000’s and peaking in 2011, is returning to the region after being effectively replaced by the so-called “Blue Tide,” the Conservative Wave that saw Brazil, Argentina, Peru and other states return to conservative neoliberal governments. Effectively, the Monroe Doctrine has guided Washington’s belief since at least 1823 that Latin America is its backyard and has a right to protect it from foreign powers.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was one of the figures at the forefront of creating sovereignty and independence from the U.S. The first indigenous president of Bolivia reduced illiteracy from 13% in 2006 to 2.4% in 2018, reduced poverty from 60.6% in 2006 to 34.6% in 2018 and reduced unemployment from 9.2% in 2006 to 4.1% in 2018 – this was mostly achieved by ensuring that industries remained nationalized or were renationalized, and by becoming independent of the World Bank and the IMF.

And therefore, “in Bolivia, the American Empire Struck Back.”

With the American Empire experiencing major losses in Latin America this year, most significantly in Venezuela, while also seeing the release of former Brazilian President and pan-Latin Americanist, Lula, from prison, a quick victory was needed. A coup against Morales appeared to be the simplest victory for the Empire to achieve.

More:
https://ahtribune.com/world/americas/bolivia/3655-morales-removal.html

[dware]

1. I beg to differ.

This wasn't a US inspired coup, this was a popular people's uprising against a dictator violating the Bolivian Constitution, plain and simple.

[EX500rider]

3. Apparently ignoring term limits is OK if you are "indigenous" nt

[lunasun]

2. Not much msm coverage here in US about what's happening in Bolivia post coup . The interim

President Anez appeared with a big bible to take her place and has some background comments about the indigenous calling their rituals “satanic” and they don’t belong in the city and don’t forget
Camacho is another big time evangelical also
After Morales’s resignation, Camacho entered the government palace in La Paz, & placed a Bible on the Bolivian flag . He said that the Pachamama (the Andean Mother Earth goddess) will “never return to Bolivia.
Bolivia belongs to God.”
They really want to remove the culture so not too far thinking to wonder what they want for the people
This has lead to protests and counter protest and military all in the streets but maybe I’m missing the mainstream US coverage other than a mention

In Canada , Trudeau government is not following the U.S. in backing a rw politician with the history of her past statements but are not taking any side right now either .

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bolivia-canada-morales-anez-1.5358518

Our other neighboring country, Mexico, has welcomed Morales to Mexico City

The twitter comment mentioned in the op link

Link to tweet

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