A top Bolivian general has been arrested and accused of mounting a coup against the government, after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday, before swiftly retreating and being taken into custody on live television.
I know very little, honestly it’s hard to ever really capture all the nuance, but I do recall having conversations about white supremacist movements in Bolivia with ties to a news corporation operating out of Washington DC, which led some to speculate it was primed for a coup by the CIA during the Trump administration or even earlier. Bolivia elected its first indigenous president Morales, but they were ousted in 2019.
So it seems pretty easy to pick a side, at least from a glance, but there is more we don’t know going on than we do.
It’s very complex and involves issues of race, religion, democracy, corruption, economics, etc. But in another way, it’s not complex: Bolivia is sitting on massive untapped lithium mines. Someone is going to get rich from that and whether it’s the people of Bolivia or oligarchs is why coups are tempting:
I don’t know who is backing the current coup, obviously, but I suspect few corporations or Western governments would be upset if a right wing party seizes power (again) despite losing the last several recent elections.
Nope. Pretty simple. If you have an army of people to literally take over a country, you will never leave.
Edit: your X Comment had nothing to do with it. Sad fact, but the US would gain nothing from the changing of hands in El Salvador. Too small, no profit.
I don’t live in Bolivia. Don’t know shit about Bolivia.
What we’ve seen in recent history is that a Military Force talking control of anything will never leave that seat of power.
I know very little, honestly it’s hard to ever really capture all the nuance, but I do recall having conversations about white supremacist movements in Bolivia with ties to a news corporation operating out of Washington DC, which led some to speculate it was primed for a coup by the CIA during the Trump administration or even earlier. Bolivia elected its first indigenous president Morales, but they were ousted in 2019.
So it seems pretty easy to pick a side, at least from a glance, but there is more we don’t know going on than we do.
Look at SE Asian, Egypt, and handful of smaller South American countries. They don’t leave.
I wasn’t arguing with you, just building on it.
It’s very complex and involves issues of race, religion, democracy, corruption, economics, etc. But in another way, it’s not complex: Bolivia is sitting on massive untapped lithium mines. Someone is going to get rich from that and whether it’s the people of Bolivia or oligarchs is why coups are tempting:
I don’t know who is backing the current coup, obviously, but I suspect few corporations or Western governments would be upset if a right wing party seizes power (again) despite losing the last several recent elections.
Nope. Pretty simple. If you have an army of people to literally take over a country, you will never leave.
Edit: your X Comment had nothing to do with it. Sad fact, but the US would gain nothing from the changing of hands in El Salvador. Too small, no profit.