Evo Morales

Real transparency: Bolivia’s president publishes his government’s financial account on billboards
(Photo: Andre Vltchek 2019©)
Antiwar.com reports…

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The US engineered another coup, this time Bolivia, and again our movement could not effectively counter pro-coup propaganda the US was selling to the public, let alone taking any action to stop it.

A serious diplomatic row with significant international law implications has erupted between the government of Mexico and the Bolivian coup regime installed by foreign interests in November 2019.

“Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Bolivia recedes into darkness.”
Winston Churchill’s famous ament for the betrayal of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis by the Western democracies in 1938 applies today to the shameless toppling of the lawful, democratically elected government of Bolivia and the new dark age of repression, exploitation and torture that now threatens to engulf its people.

Andrónico Rodríguez could be the next president of Bolivia. The 30-year-old labor organizer speaks about the far-right US-backed coup, repression…
The post Evo Morales’ potential successor speaks out after far-right Bolivia coup: Interview with union leader Andrónico Rodríguez appeared first on The Grayzone.

Evo believes the real reason he is under assault has to do with his victories against the IMF and the nationalization of Bolivian resources.

Imperialism’s removal of socialist Latin American leaders follows the same trajectory of earlier US-backed military coups in the region. Following Bolivian President Evo Morales’s departure from his country as dictator Jeanine Añez took power, the left in Bolivia has been accused of terrorism, even as the military and right-wing mobs have assaulted the indigenous populations.

Spending time with the union members of Chapare, who run society in a collective fashion, offers special insights into the…
The post Bolivia’s free territory of Chapare has ousted the coup regime and is bracing for a bloody re-invasion appeared first on The Grayzone.