Bolivia

What lessons can workers learn from the events in Bolivia? Proletarian writers Supporters of Evo Morales demonstrate after he announced his resignation, along with the indigenous flag and a placard that reads: ‘Evo you are not alone’. It hasn’t even been a month since the tragic and criminal overthrow of Bolivia’s progressive former president Evo Morales and his MAS (Movement for Socialism) party. The coup against the popular government of President Morales was spearheaded by one Luis Fernando Camacho, the millionaire leader of an explicitly fascist paramilitary group. The motivations for his US-sponsored overthrow have been steadily accumulating over the 13 years of Morales’ tenure, but appeared to come to a head when the government signed a deal to let China exploit Bolivia...

by Edu Montesanti Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message againVideos U.S. actions "could well contribute to a further breakdown in the rule of law in Bolivia and a full-blown humanitarian emergency," Democratic legislators foresee. James McGovern, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other Democratic lawmakers on Friday criticized President Donald Trump administration for its stance regarding what is happening in Bolivia. Bolivia: Ilegitimate Government Attempts to Sue Evo Morales "We are troubled by statements from administration officials, including President Trump, that welcome these developments in Bolivia that bear the hallmarks of a military coup d'état," l...

Demonstration in support of Bolivian President Evo Morales after he announced his resignation on Sunday, in Buenos Aires. | Photo: Reuters By: Cindy Forster Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message againVideos In essence, Morales resigned to halt a campaign of terror. Paramilitary violence is being practiced by the right-wing and it has escalated. Bolivia’s president Evo Morales Ayma has just resigned. Hours earlier, surrounded by leaders of the grassroots mass organizations that serve as a sort of “people’s cabinet,” he had called for new elections and a renovated Supreme Electoral Tribunal to oversee that process. These are political decisions since according to the Constitution he won the elections of October 20...

Any presidential candidate who claims to represent workers and marginalized communities, who even nominally opposes U.S. imperialism, should be able to identify a coup as such.  by: Jacob Sugarman Since Morales’ forced resignation, the response of leading Democrats and presidential hopefuls has been one of almost total silence, even among the party’s putative progressives. (Photo: CNN) Toward the end of Saturday night’s Democratic forum hosted by the Spanish language network Univision, moderator Jorge Ramos posed what can charitably be called a leading question to 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders. Ramos, who cemented his place in the public consciousness when then-candidate Donald Trump had him tossed from a news conference in 2015, noted that Sanders had called th...

"We invite international organizations, Pope Francis, to form a truth commission about the October 20 elections." by: Jake Johnson, Evo Morales speaks at a press conference in Mexico City on November 20, 2019. (Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images) Former Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday called for an international truth commission to examine the role of the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States in the military coup on November 10 that brought a right-wing anti-indigenous regime to power. "We invite international organizations, Pope Francis, to form a truth commission about the October 20 [presidential] elections," Morales said during a press conference in Mexico, where he was granted asylum after the Bolivian military forced him ...

Facts show nothing suspicious about the re-election of Evo Morales. by: Mark Weisbrot Supporters of Evo Morales demonstrate in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Monday. (Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) What is the difference between an outright lie—stating something as a fact while knowing that it is false—and a deliberate material representation that accomplishes the same end? Here is an example that really pushes the boundary between the two, to the point where the distinction practically vanishes. And the consequences are quite serious; this misrepresentation (or lie) has already played a major role in a military coup in Bolivia last week. This military coup overthrew the government of President Evo Morales before his current term was finished—a term to which n...

"Maybe it's just me, but if you're going to call yourself a progressive who stands up for the little guy you might want to start calling a right wing coup that's resulted in the curbing of democratic freedoms and onslaught of violence... well, a right wing coup." by: Eoin Higgins, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) came under fire Monday for her statement on the Bolivian coup. (Photo: Marc Nozell/Flickr/cc) Top-tier 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren is under fire from progressives and Indigenous activists for her comments Monday about the recent coup in Bolivia—remarks her critics called too conciliatory to the right-wing un-elected government that seized power after President Evo Morales was forced to resign and flee ...