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Paramount Member	Mon Oct 19 13:13:58 Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup Right-wing forces cheered by the U.S. tried to destroy one of Latin America’s most vibrant democracies. Voters just restored it. IN NOVEMBER 2019, Bolivia’s three-term President Evo Morales was forced under threat of police and military violence to flee to Mexico, just weeks after he was declared the winner of the October presidential election that would have sent him to his fourth term. Installed in his place was an unelected right-wing coup regime, led by self-declared “interim President” Jeanine Áñez, who promptly presided over a military massacre that killed dozens of Morales’s Indigenous supporters and then granted immunity to all the soldiers involved. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the time cheered the coup by citing subsequently debunked claims of election fraud by the Organization of American States, or OAS, and urging “a truly democratic process representative of the people’s will.” But after the Áñez regime twice postponed scheduled elections this year, Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday. They delivered a resounding victory to presidential candidate Luis Arce, Morales’s former finance minister and the candidate from his Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS, Party. Although official results are still being counted, exit polls from reputable firms show Arce with a blowout victory — over 50 percent against a centrist former president and a far-right coup leader — and Áñez herself conceded that MAS has won: “We do not yet have an official count, but from the data we have, Mr. Arce and [MAS Vice Presidential candidate] Mr. Choquehuanca have won the election. I congratulate the winners and ask them to govern with Bolivia and democracy in mind.” It is difficult to remember the last time a U.S.-approved military coup in Latin America failed so spectacularly. Even with the U.S.-dominated OAS’s instantly dubious claims of electoral fraud, nobody disputed that Morales received more votes in last October’s election than all other candidates (the only question raised by the OAS was whether his margin of victory was sufficient to win on the first round and avoid a run-off). Despite Morales’s election win, the Bolivian police and then military made clear to Morales that neither he, his family, nor his closest allies would be safe unless he immediately left the country, as Morales detailed in an interview I conducted with him just weeks after he was driven into exile in Mexico City. In that interview, Morales blamed not only the U.S. for giving the green light to right-wing coup leaders but also attributed the coup to Western anger over his decision to sell some of the country’s valuable lithium supply to China rather than to the West. Continues: http://the...ar-after-a-u-s-applauded-coup/ ” unelected right-wing coup regime, led by self-declared “interim President” Jeanine Áñez, who promptly presided over a military massacre that killed dozens of Morales’s Indigenous supporters and then granted immunity to all the soldiers involved.” ” Áñez herself conceded that MAS has won: ” [...] I congratulate the winners and ask them to govern with Bolivia and democracy in mind.” What a fking cockroach. First she declared herself, illegally, to be president and then massacred dozens of indigenous, and now she is asking that the rightful winner of the democratic election ”govern with democracy in mind”. What a fking bitch. She is a terrorist. A serial killer. An enemy to democracy. She deserves to be executed.
Rugian Member	Mon Oct 19 13:25:54 Morales is a piece of shit who tried to get eliminate term limits for himself by holding a national referendum, then when that failed he had the supreme court strike them down anyway because, quote, "term limits were a violation of his human rights." The fact that his cronies managed to win here just proves that poor people are too stupid to have the vote.
Habebe Member	Mon Oct 19 13:31:27 CIA: *resurrects zombie Pinochet* Zombie Pinochet ( scwarzanegger voice) " Who wants S to fly in my Helicopter?"
Paramount Member	Mon Oct 19 13:37:54 So again America is trying to steal the resources from other people, and lets a terrorist to massacre people to achieve this.
Habebe Member	Mon Oct 19 13:39:51 Are you saying we didnt get it right with Pinochet? I personallu find this as one of the most successful regime changes we orchestrated.
Paramount Member	Mon Oct 19 13:43:42 What would you do if a foreign power coups your ass and lets terrorists massacre you while they are stealing your resources?
Habebe Member	Mon Oct 19 13:58:36 In all fairness thats difficult for a USian to imagine. I do however question this " stealing of resources" because of its foriegn companies legally operating their , which is often the case , the US lets foriegn companies own US resources all the time. The US has stolen thi gs before from foreign powers like japan in ww2, FDR was teying to instigate a war, Pearl Harbor eas a justified act.
Dakyron Member	Tue Oct 20 10:01:11 The US did their best to prevent another Hugo Chavez, who turned Venezuela into the abhorrent shithole it is today.
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