Posted by: chupacabra
LOL. Was that your defense of his clinging to power? Is he the only socialist in the country or something?
Maybe. Look what happened in Ecuador.
Held to the standards of western "media", I reckon it's pretty much impossible to run a pure democracy when the oligarchs have enlisted the psychotic yanke scum to undermine you.
The problem with Bolivia is the lack of oxygen.
https://fair.org/home/media-conceal-chiles-state-criminality-delegitimize-bolivian-democracy/https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=xGrHQIOhLb8&feature=emb_logo https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bolivian-president-evo-morales-removal-denounced-as-coup/ https://fair.org/home/the-bolivian-coup-is-not-a-coup-because-us-wanted-it-to-happen/
Posted by: KenN
Nothing in life is better than coming here to see a list of links to a bunch of cooterpunch Wall of Words screeds.
Wait. I meant everything. Everything in life is better than that.
It is always the same. Some authoritarian leader is a beacon of freedom because America is imperialist swine. Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: tungsten
Posted by: chupacabra
LOL. Was that your defense of his clinging to power? Is he the only socialist in the country or something?
Maybe. Look what happened in Ecuador.
Held to the standards of western "media", I reckon it's pretty much impossible to run a pure democracy when the oligarchs have enlisted the psychotic yanke scum to undermine you.
I reckon he doesn't want a democracy. If you believe you should lead for life, you want to be a king.
Posted by: chupacabra
Posted by: KenN
Nothing in life is better than coming here to see a list of links to a bunch of cooterpunch Wall of Words screeds.
Wait. I meant everything. Everything in life is better than that.
It is always the same. Some authoritarian leader is a beacon of freedom because America is imperialist swine. Rinse and repeat.
It's like a parrot, or a poorly written bot, got an account on NSMB.
Canada is so craven they just officially recognized some mutt who Guaido, the self appointed President of Venezuela in hiding, anointed ammbasador to this pompous little pretender of a world player country.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14696
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza hailed the election as a “historic” triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.
“We dare call this election historic because we faced a ferocious campaign from the United States and its satellite governments*,” he told reporters.
Canada*, eh? hahahahahaha..........
Venezuela Analysis is propaganda for the Maduro government. It's about as reliable as a news source as Trump's Twitter feed.
Tide is turning, 'merikkkan toadies beware...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/lula-free-bolsonaro-rage/
Bolivia Crisis Shows the Blurry Line Between Coup and Uprising
I think the next step determines if it was a coup or uprising. If the military installs a leader it's a coup, if the country holds another election that isn't a sham it's an uprising.
Posted by: tungsten
Posted by: chupacabra
election that isn't a sham it's an uprising.
Only sham is that you use empire's media as news source.
On November 10, the New York Times wrote, “A leftist who had served longer than any other current head of state in Latin America, Mr. Morales lost his grip on power amid violent protests set off by a disputed election.” A CNN headline read, “Bolivian President Evo Morales steps down following accusations of election fraud.”
Similarly, NPR went with the headline, “Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns Amid Widespread Protests Over Election Fraud.” The Washington Post, which has made “opposing” the death of democracy in the darkness a part of their corporate brand, attributed Morales’ resignation to a “scathing election report.”
“Morales’ stunning fall after nearly 14 years in office came hours after the Organization of American States said it had found ‘clear manipulation’ of the vote last month in which the elder statesman of the Latin American left claimed victory,” according to the Post.But a statistical analysis conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) debunked the OAS Electoral Observation Mission’s report, which failed to prove there were “widespread or systematic irregularities in the elections of October 20, 2019.”
News media like the Post unquestionably repeated the allegation that the “last five percent of the vote counting was especially ‘unusual’” because it “showed a significant increase for Morales and a sharp decrease” for right-wing challenger, Carlos Mesa.
As CEPR described, In Bolivia’s elections over the last decade and a half, votes from rural and peripheral areas of the country have tended to disproportionately favor Morales and the MAS-IPSP [Movimiento al Socialismo]. Because of logistical, technological, and possibly other limitations, these votes end up being computed later in the counting process.”
“This is true of both the quick and the official counts, which are both affected by the same geography and infrastructure. Rural and poorer places, which have tended to heavily favor Morales, are slower to transmit data or send tally sheets to the electoral tribunals,” CEPR’s analysis added.
Right-wing opposition forces, and their supporters in the U.S. government, benefited from the sheer ignorance of the electoral process in Bolivia, which was weaponized to further destabilize the country.
Bolivia uses what is known as a quick count. It involves a procedure that was adopted after OAS recommended Latin American countries implement such a system. The quick count allows the civil registry service to count the vast majority of nationwide votes so the public may be swiftly informed of the outcome, however, due to logistical limitations, it is not possible for this count to reflect 100 percent of the votes.
There is an official count—a second vote-counting system—that CEPR notes is the only count that is “legally binding under Bolivian law.” It is precise, more thorough, and takes longer.
To win an election, a presidential candidate “must win 50 percent of the vote or garner at least 40 percent of the vote with a 10 percentage point lead over the runner-up in the first round.”
“In these elections, the results of the official count generally coincided with those of the quick count, which ended once 95.63 percent of tally sheets were counted, with Morales having a lead of 46.86 percent to Mesa’s 36.72,” according to CEPR. “The final official count, with 100 percent of votes counted, resulted in Morales winning the election in the first round with 47.08 percent, to Mesa’s 36.51 percent.”
More analysis.... https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/12/after-morales-ousted-coup-lithium-question-looms-large-bolivia
Over the past 13 years, Morales has tried to build a different relationship between his country and its resources. He has not wanted the resources to benefit the transnational mining firms, but rather to benefit his own population. Part of that promise was met as Bolivia’s poverty rate has declined, and as Bolivia’s population was able to improve its social indicators. Nationalization of resources combined with the use of its income to fund social development has played a role.
In 2014, even the Financial Times agreed that Morales’ strategy was not entirely inappropriate. “Proof of the success of Morales’s economic model is that since coming to power he has tripled the size of the economy while ramping up record foreign reserves.”
On August 1, 2012, the Morales government—by Supreme Decree no. 1308—annulled the contract with South American Silver (TriMetals Mining), which then sought international arbitration and compensation. Canada’s ( http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1140 ) government of Justin (lying cunt) Trudeau —as part of a broader push on behalf of Canadian mining companies in South America—put an immense amount of pressure on Bolivia. -
While backing the ouster of Morales, Trudeau has offered support for beleaguered right-wing leaders in the region. Amidst massive demonstrations against his government, the Prime Minister held a phone conversation 10 days ago with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera who has a 14% approval rating. According to the published report of the conversation, Trudeau criticized “election irregularities in Bolivia”and discussed their joint campaign to remove Venezuela’s president. A CTV story noted, “a summary from the Prime Minister’s Office of Trudeau’s phone call with Pinera made no direct mention of the ongoing turmoil in Chile, a thriving country with which Canada has negotiated a free trade agreement.”
In Haiti, the only reason Jovenel Moïse remains president is because of backing of Ottawa, Washington and other members of the so-called “Core Group”. Unlike Bolivia, Haiti is not divided. Basically, everyone wants Moïse to go. Reliable polling is limited, but a poll last month found that 81% of Haitianswanted the president to leave. Many are strongly committed to that view, which is why the country’s urban areas have been largely paralyzed since early September.
The Trudeau government is obviously following the Trump administration in backing the removal of Morales. But, there has also been a conflict between Canadian capital and the Morales government. Executives of Canadian mining companies have criticized Morales and expressed fear over “resource nationalism” in the region more generally. In 2012 weeks of protest against South American Silver’s operations in central Bolivia — that saw an indigenous activist killed— prompted the Morales government to nationalize the Vancouver-based company’s mine. Ottawa immediately went to bat for South American Silver. Ed Fast’s spokesman Rudy Husny told the Vancouver Sun the trade minister instructed Canadian officials to “intensify their engagement with the Bolivian government in order to protect and defend Canadian interests and seek a productive resolution of this matter.”
Once again our government has prioritized the interests of Canadian corporations over the interest of indigenous people. Shame on Trudeau for supporting the ouster of Evo Morales.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/12/canada-backs-coup-against-bolivias-president/
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Bolivia From Canadian Writers and Scholars
by COUNTERPUNCH NEWS SERVICEFacebookTwitterRedditEmail
The democratically elected president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, the very first indigenous president of the Americas, has been forced, at gunpoint, to flee the country. There have been on a 5-day stretch since October 20th, 23 deaths, 715 injured, total arrests of 1112 and the number of wounded are unknown (data from the Defensoría del Pueblo de La Paz). The victims are overwhelmingly indigenous people.
There is no excuse whatsoever for this violence, no excuse for the rupture of the constitutional process. No alleged, and unsubstantiated, “electoral irregularity”, no alleged ” political mistake” by Evo Morales can possibly excuse the police and military deposing a legitimately elected political leader. There are legal procedural means to deal with any of these occurrences, and indeed Evo Morales had already agreed to a ballot audit by the OAS and even to new elections. The Bolivian armed forces then acted against their own constitution and forced him to resign. His present term does not end until January.
Mexico and the new government elect of Argentina have been recognized as having saved the life of the president and the vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, who are now in forced exile in Mexico.
The coup has been carried out by known paramilitary leaders, right wing fanatics, who are consumed with racism against their own peoples. The self-proclaimed “president” Jeanine Añez, who took power without any election or backing of the Senate and Deputy Chambers is maintained solely by military support. Bolivia has therefore effectively been turned into a military dictatorship. She has violated articles 161, 169 and 410 of the Bolivian Constitution. She famously has made a racist remark by saying that the indigenous peoples should stay in the hills because the cities are not for them.
In fact of law, Evo Morales is the only true, legitimate president of Bolivia since his letter of resignation has not been approved by the Bolivian Senate. Moreover, nobody should take seriously a “resignation” made at gunpoint.
The situation in Bolivia is chaotic. Now is the moment for Canada to show that it truly respects and supports indigenous peoples by openly and unequivocally condemning this coup and the rupture of the constitutional rule of law in a regional country friendly to Canada.
History is an unforgiving observer, and the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, Canada and the entire Americas will be watching and waiting for you, Mr. Prime Minister, to show that Canada truly and effectively backs the democratic and inclusive values for which it purports to stand. Condemn this coup against the most important indigenous leader of the Americas, Evo Morales.
Respectfully,
Arnold August, journalist/author, Montreal
Claudia Chaufan, York University
Sharon Clarke, citizen of Canada
Dr. Christo El Morr, York University
Keith Ellis, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Joe Emersberger, writer
Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba
Dr. Rachel Gorman, York University
Wendy Holm, Canadian Agrologist (Ret’d), Friend of Cuba and the People of Latin America
Mike Jones
Naomi Klein, author
Carol Mowat
Professor Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto
Linda McQuaig, author
Dr. Maria Páez Victor, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
Nino Pagliccia, Venezuelan-Canadian activist and writer
James Plewak, Member and former Chief of the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation. Treaty 2 Territory
Justin Podur, York University
Professor Radika Desai, University of Manitoba
Karen Roundpoint
Jerry Spiegel, University of British Columbia
Peter A. Victor, Professor Emeritus, York University
Annalee Yassi, University of British Columbia
tungsten, NSMB Hero
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