Chaos continues in Bolivia on Tuesday as former President Morales slowly made his way to exile in Mexico. Morales’ supporters are in the streets condemning the military for an effective takeover in the past few days, while security forces are squaring off against them and vowing to maintain order.
Sen. Jeanine Anez, the deputy senate speaker, moved Tuesday to unilaterally declare herself interim president of Bolivia, saying she intends to see elections “as soon as possible.”
Anez had hoped to be voted into the position by the Senate, but lacking a quorum, she decided to just declare herself the new leader. Only Morales’ critics showed up, which wasn’t enough to have a quorum for a vote.
Morales was deeply critical of Anez taking over, saying she was a “coup-mongering right-wing senator.” Morales’ party had said they were trying to get guarantees as a condition to attend the session of the senate, but were unable to do so.
Chaos will ensue this violent US imposed fascist coup for as long as it takes to reinstall democracy via the elected president Morales. Families of the coup plotters, US officials and employees in the country have just been evacuated, since noone can guarantee their or their local client’s safety from the wrath if the Bolivian people. The biggest mistake of Evo was letting USAID, other US NGO:s and the US embassy fester for so long.
It’s not a coup unless we say it’s a coup as this piece points out. Gotta love the MSM stenographers(Justin’s words). Their loyalty is unmatched.
https://fair.org/home/the-bolivian-coup-is-not-a-coup-because-us-wanted-it-to-happen/
Miss him, especially on days like this.
Nothing justifies this right wing coup, and that is what it is.
Morales is a good man. However, he made a mistake, a serious one. He got a bit too full of himself as necessary, and over reached in this last election. A fourth term and a 24-hour suspension of the vote to fix the count were just too much. His motives were clearly to do good — he tries hard, works very hard, travels in his country constantly, he’s a good man. But he went too far in this. He made a mistake.
His mistake does not justify the response. The right wing was waiting for this chance. Morales gave them the opening.
As one option, he could have handed off to his choice of successor and become elder statesman. He is 60, which is borderline for Indigenous in Bolivia, where total male life expectancy is 67, and Indigenous people less than that.
Nothing justifies this right wing coup, and that is what it is.
Morales is a good man. However, he made a mistake, a serious one. He got a bit too full of himself as necessary, and over reached in this last election. A fourth term and a 24-hour suspension of the vote to fix the count were just too much. His motives were clearly to do good — he tries hard, works very hard, travels in his country constantly, he’s a good man. But he went too far in this. He made a mistake.
His mistake does not justify the response. The right wing was waiting for this chance. Morales gave them the opening.
As one option, he could have handed off to his choice of successor and become elder statesman. He is 60, which is borderline for Indigenous in Bolivia, where total male life expectancy is 67, and Indigenous people less than that.
That’s not his only mistake. He sharply divided the country by playing the politics of envy, taking from the Bolivians who were actually creating wealth. Alas, this is just another turn of the merry-go-’round that is Bolivian politics which will only end when they country breaks up leaving the western poor with nobody else to blame/steal from.
What a circus. Where’s the Bolivian right-wing to oppose these pirates? How is a pirate or warlord “right-wing”? That would make Mao “right-wing.”
In Latin America “Right-Wing” is generally shorthand for neoliberal quislinghood. Though this elitist jet-set does tend to be way whiter than the rest of the country, who they view as filthy peasants. To my knowledge, the last truly conservative government in South America, at least in the Paleo sense, was the the Peron’s. They were far from saints, but they didn’t answer to any one foreign power exclusively while maintaining a socially conservative populist stance.
A large corporation could make this happen without involving the US government ,
tho more likely help there. Well, actually it would involve the US as the expenses would show up in their tax forms, as “marketing expenses”.