TELESUR—On Wednesday June 26, hundreds of members of the Bolivian Armed Forces had mobilized under the order of General Juan Zúñiga in the center of La Paz and surrounded the Quemado Palace, attempting to stage a coup d’état. Their attempt was quickly diffused by a combination of the swift response from Bolivian President Luis Arce to replace the leadership of the military, an immediate and unanimous condemnation by the international community, and most importantly, the overwhelming mobilization of the Bolivian people to the center of La Paz to defend their democracy.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the pathetic Biden-Trump debate, and how it reflects the extreme political decomposition of the United States as it flops around in its late imperial stage exhibiting pathetic leadership and rotten policies at home and throughout its client states in Europe, Asia and other corners of the globe. The main question right now for humanity is whether humanity can survive the fall of US imperialism without an economic implosion or, worse, a cataclysmic nuclear war.
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EDITOR—”I demand respect for our country… Chile does not harbor any terrorist group either within its territory or outside it,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric previously stated. [Notice that Boric here, by accepting the US empire’s designation of Hezbollah as a “terrorist” organisation, confirmed his fake-leftist /social democrat creds. Proudly “WOKE”, he’s safely ensconced within the empire’s folds. Boric, a descendant of Croats, a culture of notorious rightwingers and onetime WW2 allies of Hitler, is also among the denouncers of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine, an enemy of Nicaragua, Venezuela y Cuba, while claiming Kiev is a sovereign regime instead of an American puppet. He can’t be expected to push back against Washington or Argentina’s provocations.—Ed.]
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Bolivian social movements reported that former de facto president Jeanine Áñez tried to escape to Brazil, but her escape was prevented and she is being held in the city of Trinidad. A representative of social organizations in the department of Beni, in northern Bolivia, announced that they prevented Áñez from boarding a plane at the city’s Jorge Henrich Arauz airport when he was trying to go to a border city and then go to Brazil. The act they considered was the flight of the ex-ruler, HispanTV reported.
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ALAN MACLEOD—On Monday, the country’s legislative assembly decided to charge “interm pesident” Jeanine Añez and a number of other officials from her government, including the notorious Arturo Murillo, with ordering the massacres of protesters in Senkata and Sacaba. Just before those events, Añez announced that security services would be pre-exonerated of all crimes during what she called the “re-establishment of order.” Medea Benjamin reported from the scene for MintPress, describing how churches were turned into makeshift morgues, with blood running from the pews. Dozens of people were killed.
