''I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia... ''

[Donkees]

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[dewsgirl]

1. His family's homes were burned and they rounded his family

up and threatened to kill them. All of this was done with US backing. Trump helped alright, he backed this right wing coup.

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[alwaysinasnit]

26. +1000

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[guillaumeb]

3. Recommended Donkees.

[MarcA]

4. I would like to see a response to this from each Democratic Candidate. n/t

[oldsoftie]

7. I would imagine all but one would back the people of Bolivia.

The last election was corrupted. He illegally ran for another term to begin with.
Now maybe they can have a REAL election.

[OldRed2450]

9. I hope to high heaven it's not what Bernie said.

How do we know it was a coup? It's incredibly irresponsible to call it a coup. Now more than ever I am freaked out by how Bernie would govern regarding foreign policy. Did he say this just because Evo said nice things about him or does he have facts?

[oldsoftie]

17. Well, Bernie said the American dream was more apt to be realized in Venezuela.

So why would this be a shocker?

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america

[floppyboo]

5. Well fuck that! New Argentian PM, Mexico, and Lula are BACK!

and Venezuela never left. So, question is, when all the SA members of OAS leave, what will be left?
Bolsonaro is on notice!
Ecuador is not giving up!

It can't be too soon to see a Sanders Presidency!!!

[oldsoftie]

6. The military didnt remove him, he stepped down. He was corrupt & the last vote was as well.

Although he HAD lost the military support & likely would have been removed at some point.
And he broke the law by taking office for another term anyway. He got HIS court packed with HIS judges, to rule that he could. You know how we talk about Trumps SCOTUS? Same thing here. But thats the norm for leaders like him; stay forever if possible. Thankfully the people of Bolivia saw what was coming and regained power before their country turned into another Venezuela
The NYT has more actual news on the story as well as the factors leading up to it

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/world/americas/evo-morales-bolivia.html

[melman]

8. Watch this

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[George II]

14. The Mayor of Vinto is not the President of Bolivia.

[melman]

15. Gross

You see a woman brutally beaten and your response is to troll with gifs?

[George II]

29. So now you're calling me a troll? HAH!!!!

[RandiFan1290]

33. How disgusting

Right wingers love that kind of stuff.

Makes me sick to my stomach.

[redqueen]

10. K&R nt

[OldRed2450]

11. It was a coup by the people of Bolivia

Morales wasn’t even legally allowed to run for President again in the last election, which he cheated in. He was completely illegitimate.

The people are the ones who want him gone. He's a socialist dictator and no USA candidate should support him.

[ChubbyStar]

12. WTF?

I'm still laughing.

[OldRed2450]

16. Why?

What part of Dictator Morales ran fraudulent elections in Blovia as declared by the independent OEA' do some people not seem to get? That is why he resigned. It was NOT a coup

[ChubbyStar]

18. That is very aggressive

Your opinion.

[George II]

13. It most certainly was NOT a "coup".

The Atlantic: "Evo Morales Finally Went Too Far for Bolivia"

The socialist president claimed authoritarian powers in the name of the popular will. But average citizens were fed up with arbitrary rule.

Evo Morales has been attacking Bolivia’s democracy for many years. Since coming to office in 2006, the socialist president has concentrated ever more authority in his own hands, denounced the opposition in aggressive terms, and placed loyalists in key institutions, from the country’s public broadcaster to its highest court.

Like many populists on both the left and the right, Morales claimed to wield power in the name of the people. But after weeks of mass protests in La Paz and other Bolivian cities, and the rapid crumbling of his support both within law enforcement and his own political party, it was his loss of legitimacy among the majority of his own countrymen that forced Morales to resign yesterday.

What he and some of his most credulous Western supporters described as a coup was in fact something very different: proof that Bolivians—like the citizens of many other countries around the world—resent arbitrary rule. The longer they have suffered from oppression, the more they have come to value the democratic institutions that are now threatened by populists around the globe.

As Morales started to come up against the two-term limit for presidents stipulated by the constitution he himself had championed in 2009, his enmity toward any semblance of the rule of law became more and more evident. In 2016, he held a binding referendum that would allow him to stay in office indefinitely. When a majority of Bolivians voted down the proposal, Morales resorted to his tight control of previously independent institutions to get his way. In 2017, the country’s supreme court ruled that limits on the length of his tenure in office would violate Morales’s human rights.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/evo-morales-finally-went-too-far-bolivia/601741/

In other words, he evolved into a dictator.

[OldRed2450]

19. Exactly!

If it was a coup, it was a coup by the people. https://twitter.com/anesperitlliure

[oldsoftie]

20. But you'll see the DU Chavez apologists come out in force against the facts.

Gotta move quick to push the "coup" narrative

[George II]

22. What was a "coup" was ignoring the term limits and remaining in power for a third and....

....as of a few weeks ago a fourth term.

[oldsoftie]

23. Exactly. Ignored because its inconvenient.

[tritsofme]

32. **crickets**

[UniteFightBack]

21. He gave himself some room with the 'what appears to be' bullshit. nt

[George II]

24. Just like using "it has been reported" to claim things that aren't true.

[Aaron Pereira]

25. Trump's State Dept is rushing to defend this violent coup.

This should be an easy one, where are we? I stand with Bernie on this one.

[sheshe2]

31. Welp.

Aaron Pereira
25. Trump's State Dept is rushing to defend this violent coup.

This should be an easy one, where are we? I stand with Bernie on this one.

Well if trumpie and state department think it is a good think then ya!!!!!! One must also believe separation of families, caged children, is beautiful. I for one do not believe a thing they say.

[alwaysinasnit]

27. K&R

[Kurt V.]

28. It's a coup

[Happy Hoosier]

30. It's a mess, but..

Morales is in the mold of Chavez and Maduro. He has corruptly worked to establish his power permanently. Way too many here in the USA naively embraced Chavez and his ilk.