Tag: Evo Morales
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Bolivia’s free territory of Chapare has ousted the coup regime and is bracing for a bloody re-invasion
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Cochabamba, Bolivia — Known as Bolivia’s Chapare region, the Tropico of Cochabamba is a sanctuary for elected President Evo Morales’ most dedicated base of support. Since the November 10 coup, it has effectively become a self-governing territory where the military junta is absent. The police and military were sent in full retreat from this area…
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Bolivia: “We Are Not Afraid”
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The stamina of the people has prevented the victory that the U.S.-backed coup regime expected in Bolivia. Resistance to the coup has been successful via three strategies –road blockades, nonviolent protests of thousands that gathered force rather than diminishing in the face of massacres, and intensely collective decision-making.
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The Military Coup that Overthrew Our Government Was Revenge Against Indigenous Bolivians
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The question we must answer is why the traditional middle class incubated so much hatred and resentment toward the people — leading them to embrace a racialized fascism, targeting the indio as an enemy. How did it infect the police and armed forces with its class frustrations, creating a social basis for fascistization, a basis for state…
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Protestors Massacred in Post-Coup Bolivia
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Eight are dead and hundreds injured in a week of bloodshed after Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales was forced to resign from power last Sunday.
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Oppose the Military Coup in Bolivia. Spare Us Your “Critiques”
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An honest look at Morales tactical dilemmas shows that the political culture of the US and its top allies is the big problem facing any democracy in the Global South. Democratic legitimacy does very little to protect you when the US and its propaganda apparatus targets you for destruction. The coup against Morales should be…
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Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm’s Lithium Deal
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The Sunday military coup in Bolivia has put in place a government which appears likely to reverse a decision by just-resigned President Evo Morales to cancel an agreement with a German company for developing lithium deposits in the Latin American country for batteries like those in electric cars.
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“This Is a Military Coup”: Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns After Army Calls for His Ouster
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History shows that when the left ignores rising fascism, it does so at it's own peril.
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We Stand Against the Coup in Bolivia (statement from Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad)
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We stand against the coup, and with the Bolivian people. We hope that they will be able to withstand what is thrown against them in the days to come. El Mundo Con Evo. So are we.