Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Bolivia Coup Led by Christian Fascist Paramilitary Leader, Multi-Millionaire – with Foreign Support — Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton


Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are excellent investigative reporter who are familiar with the region. They provide a fairly detailed analysis. Longish.

It appears that the Bolivian coup was not only based money and power, but also motivated by racism and fascism, similar to the coup in Ukraine.

This will further erode US soft power internationally and especially in the Global South and East, which are non-white.

The New Dark Age — William Bowles
Bolivia Coup Led by Christian Fascist Paramilitary Leader, Multi-Millionaire – with Foreign Support
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton

See also

The regime change playbill – short form.

Internationalist 360º
The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons
Atilio Boron

See also
How many things, how many events, how much hatred we have witnessed in our Caribbean America! But also, how much dignity, how much courage and how much faith our peoples have! The original peoples, the mestizo peoples, the Afro-descendant peoples, the families of Our Caribbean America who decided centuries ago to break the yoke , who have proclaimed ourselves independent with honor, with dignity and who today continue fighting because events like the ones we have experienced this weekend, coups d’état, intervention, aggression, intervention by aggression, by unwonted violence against our peoples’ democratic processes, encroach on our rights but we know that nor can they nor will they be able to, because the spiritual strength of our peoples is immense.…
Listen, listen, listen all you racists, you pro-imperialists, you hired killers, you empires, just listen and hear. We take on the struggle and we are noble, brave, worthy sons and daughters of these sacred lands where the atrocities, the coups, those infamous coups d’état, we know will not go unpunished, because as we said in our Nicaragua in the months of perfidy, of perversity, they will pay for their crimes, the crimes of hatred, crimes against economies, against processes of national dignity, crimes that seek to return to the illegitimate oligarchies the power to continue looting our natural resources for empires, to re-impose or continue to impose misery on the great majorities, impose those hate crimes that we knew in our Nicaragua and that will never return, thanks to the courageous and sovereign decision of the Nicaraguan people....
Listen imperialists, listen and hear, we are peoples in struggle. In Nicaragua, you could not prevail nor will you. In Our Caribbean America you will never again be able to subjugate our proud native cultures of Mestizos, of Afro-descendants, we are increasingly more, more and more millions, all sure of our abilities and our rights, demanding respect for our abilities and rights, our sovereignty, our independence and our right to live in Peace....
Internationalist 360º
“Listen, All You Racists, You Pro-Imperialists, You Hired Killers, You Empires, Just Listen and Hear.”
Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua

See also

Common Dreams
Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal
Eoin Higgins, staff writer

International 360º
First Lessons from the Fascist Coup in Bolivia
Luis Alfonso Mena S.

Internationalist 360º
“Listen, All You Racists, You Pro-Imperialists, You Hired Killers, You Empires, Just Listen and Hear.”
Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua

Internationalist 360º
The City of El Alto Defends Evo Morales Amid Repression
Marco Teruggi

Internationalist 360º
Bolivia in Crosshairs of US Counter-Revolution
Cindy Forster

Internationalist 360º
Statement by the Political Committee of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism) of Bolivia


3 comments:

Peter Pan said...

What is the racial makeup of the Bolivian military and police?

Matt Franko said...

Bolivian

Matt Franko said...

Good riddance:

“Though Bolivia hasn’t yet borrowed nearly as much from other countries as it did in the 1980s (relative to the size of its economy), the amount that Bolivia’s government owes in foreign currencies has approximately quintupled since 2007. The country’s total external debt has gone up by about 30 percent“

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-22/bolivia-s-problem-is-macroeconomics-not-socialism