Category: Coups
The coup-makers that violently deposed Evo Morales last month haven’t even tried to hide their far-right politics. Racist revanchism, backed by Christian fundamentalism, is now the order of the day in Bolivia
To read the mainstream press on what just happened to Evo Morales is to enter a hall of mirrors
The Bolivian coup was conceived as a relatively quiet U.S.-supported regime change endeavor in comparison to the overt and monstrous full court failed coup that U.S. imperialism conducted against Venezuela

Once again, the United States is complicit in an illegal coup d’état in Latin America, this time in Bolivia

Bernie cannot call himself a socialist if he continues to minimize the actions of socialists abroad

However much they war on the domestic political front, Washington’s Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when it comes to the imperial war on democracy and social justice in Latin America
A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help

This military coup overthrew the government of President Evo Morales before his current term was finished — a term to which nobody disputes that he was democratically elected in 2014
US-backed regime massacres demonstrators

Progressives need to speak up: Morales made mistakes, but nothing justifies the violent right-wing putsch that followed