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0 pointsjessaustin6y ago0 comments

The people of Bolivia have recently learned this to their great misfortune. The USA government hasn't even been shy about its support for that coup against a democratically elected leader who lifted so many out of poverty. The regime who took over celebrated the fact that they are white Christians and not brown natives.

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Niten6y ago

"Democratically elected" is a really odd way to say "defied a referendum on term limits and rigged an election".

jessaustinOP6y ago

Even if that were true (it's not!), the coup plotters evicted him by threatening his sister's life, before his new term started.

perennate6y ago

The USA issued statements supporting the ousting of Morales. That was the extent of USA's involvement. That does not really make it a "USA backed coup". Unless you believe it just because that's what Morales claimed.

jessaustinOP6y ago

We might strongly suspect it, based only on the fact that CIA has done this in dozens of nations since the episode described in TFA. Or, you know, we could just pay any attention at all to actual journalism [0].

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/13/bolivian-coup-plotters-sc...

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Niten6y ago

"Democratically elected" is a really odd way to say "defied a referendum on term limits and rigged an election".

jessaustinOP6y ago

Even if that were true (it's not!), the coup plotters evicted him by threatening his sister's life, before his new term started.

perennate6y ago

jessaustinOP6y ago

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/13/bolivian-coup-plotters-sc...

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