Bolivia 2019: One of the stinkiest CIA sponsored military coups toppling a legitimate, indigenous president
It takes little time for a genuine or even a quasi coup to be splashed on headline news as 'popular uprising' IF the outcome is favorable for Washington DC. Only dorks would not know that far from discouraging military regimes, the US has a political history of being on the best of terms with every tyrannical military government of the world. Perhaps understandable from the perspective of despots inside the Oval Office. With only a military chief to be subjugated for taking orders, and no elected members nor a parliament to worry about, it makes the task of the White House a lot easier!
Loud denunciations of elections in sovereign states as 'rigged' where an anti-colonial leader gets the mandate, is a vital strategy of the corporate media and the prime purpose of its existence. BBC, CNN, NYTimes, ABC, VOA, Miami Herald etc. all painted a nasty picture of Evo Morales resigning and fleeing after widespread protests by very angry crowds because of "election fraud," abandoned by his own friends, as if, his overthrow marked the end of dictatorship and tyranny in Bolivia. Was there really any specific evidence of fraud in the Bolivian election of October 2019? None whatsoever. Just a spectacular example of cult brainwashing techniques where the Western media played its role deftly as usual, repeating the expression "fraud elections" over and over again like a broken record, and so a clean round of elections somehow did turn fraudulent in the eyes of a largely insular world. It led to the first indigenous leader of a country getting ousted by covert external forces and seeking asylum in a land more than 6,000 kilometers away.
Writes Common Dreams, "Morales was the first indigenous president in his majority indigenous nation—one that has been ruled by a white European elite since the days of the conquistadors. While in office, his Movement Towards Socialism party has managed to reduce poverty by 42% and extreme poverty by 60%, cut unemployment in half and conduct a number of impressive public works programs. Morales saw himself as part of a decolonizing wave across Latin America, rejecting neoliberalism and nationalizing the country’s key resources, spending the proceeds on health, education and affordable food for the population."
Venezuela has oil. Bolivia has something else. After a humiliating kick in the butt by Venezuelans, Washington DC pounced on Bolivia (richest country in lithium reserves) hiding behind a few hundred Bolivian [sellout] sheepy goons.
Bernie Sanders was the first and only 2020 presidential candidate to criticize the foreign backed Bolivian coup.
Not just that. The Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR) which is a leading policy think tank in Washington DC states "Statistical analysis of election returns and tally sheets from Bolivia’s October 20 elections shows no evidence that irregularities or fraud affected the official result that gave President Evo Morales a first-round victory. Contrary to a post-election narrative that was supported, without evidence, by the OAS Electoral Observation Mission, statistical analysis shows that it was predictable that Morales would obtain a first-round win, based on the results of the first 83.85 percent of votes in a rapid count that showed Morales leading runner-up Carlos Mesa by less than 10 points."
Not surprising, CEPR is often described by skilful manipulators of mainstream news as too left leaning. Unless you don't generously contribute to promoting foul play, it's impossible to dodge those negative connotations that multiply the propaganda of master manipulators.
Morales' prime focus was on improving the lives of the working class and the unprivileged. Consequently the US government knew what it needed to do as first step - buy the country's military and police. Unlike Venezuela, it somehow succeeded in Bolivia owing to far greater loyalty of the wheeler-dealer 1%. Morales' successor, some unknown Senator by the name Jeanine Anyez, declares herself the interim president quicker than one would imagine .. no legal political process applied, no public support visible for her, no one voted for her. Following every homegrown coup, there's an official procedure for the successor to takeover, even if it's the chief of the military staff. That's the distinguishing feature which makes a homegrown coup vastly different from a CIA-sponsored coup in which the military is simply paid, and a civilian (just anyone among the sellout sheep) is propped up on the forefront to serve the dire need of a window dressing. But why aren't the 99% getting the freedom to speak whether or not they approve of Jeanine Anyez as Morales' successor? Because that's the newest proxy-brand democracy to spread the flavor and smell of rogue federation of 50 states.
Though Morales assured many times that the polls were fair that could be audited, the Organization of American States (OAS) had a problem accepting that. The blind trust of the Western establishment on opinions and endorsements of the archaic OAS is one-hundred percent evidence-free particularly when someone who won't dance to the tunes of Washington DC looks all set to win inside their sovereign boundaries. That has been precisely the story of Bolivia in October 2019. Of course, why would the mainstream news sources say that the OAS is a hackneyed and puppet institution formed in 1948 to throttle leftist ideologies and governments through false statements? Briefly, OAS is a vital tool for promoting US interest by disapproving and discrediting policies or demands of an anti-colonial nation that would not benefit Washington. Financial support for the OAS comes entirely from Washington DC.
The home of Morales' sister was set ablaze. Elected members were kidnapped and horribly treated. Television and radio outlets were ransacked with accusations of supporting Morales. Other than airing music, they were prohibited from broadcasting any other information. A radio station run by a farmers' union was also seized by these vandals. A female mayor of a Bolivian town was dragged out of her home, drenched with red paint and her hair chopped off in public. All of this by a group of approximately 300 "protesters."
"They say they defend democracy, but they behave as if they were in a dictatorship," Morales mentioned in a tweet, referring to them as "opposition militants." The mainstream media was cautiously silent with no comments despite the very recognizable trend of such destabilizing violence playing into the hands of the external sponsors / provocateurs.
Concluding with a spot-on excerpt from ZeroHedge, "So there you have it. The indigenous leader of a socialist South American government which has successfully lifted masses of people out of crushing poverty, which happens to control the world’s largest reserves of lithium (which may one day replace oil as a crucial energy resource due to its use in powering smartphones, laptops, hybrid and electric cars), which has an extensive and well-
Read the entire piece that includes how Evo Morales already summed up America's role in the world last year so you don't keep chewing the mud splattered on you by the mainstream outlets. Or, keep asking yourself forever why do people "protest" only against leaders that don't endorse US ass-fingering.
On the military coup of Bolivia 2019 - Democracy Now (brief interviews)