The de facto government that usurped power in Bolivia has conferred upon the Armed Forces the right to act without having to answer for their crimes. The number of deaths grows. The Argentinian government is silent. The OAS endorses. Michelle Bachelet and the U.N. must intervene.
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PETER KOENIG—Like Túpac Katari, indigenous Aymara leader more than 200 years ago, confronting the Spaniards, Evo Morales was betrayed and ‘dismembered’ by his own people, recruited and paid by the agents of the most destructive, nefarious and murderous dark elite that governs and has governed for over two hundred years our planet, the United States of America.
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EDITORS—Bolivia has a long history of coups, all following the same template—US-supported and instigated, with the loyal support of the comprador elites, but sometimes, as it happened in Venezuela with Pres. Chavez, a military leader breaks the mould and upsets the traditional plutocratic arrangements. Such was the case of Gen. Juan José Torres, who rose to power almost at the same time as Pres. Allende in Chile, ending up, like him, toppled and murdered by the same combination of oligarchic forces.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—International affairs are much easier to understand once you stop thinking in terms of separate, sovereign nations and start thinking in terms of alliances and empire. What we are witnessing can best be described as a slow-motion third world war between what amounts to an unofficial globe-spanning empire centralized around the United States and its military on one side, and all the nations which have refused to be absorbed into this empire on the other. Nations which allow themselves to be absorbed are rewarded with the carrot of military and economic alliance with the empire, and nations which refuse are punished with the stick of invasions, sanctions, trade wars, and coups
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ANDRE VLTCHEK—They pledged to do it, and they did – Bolivian feudal lords, mass media magnates and other treasonous “elites” – they overthrew the government, broke hope and interrupted an extremely successful socialist process in what was once one of the poorest countries in South America. One day, they will be cursed by their own nation. One day they will stand trial for sedition. One day, they will have to reveal who trained them, who employed them, who turned them into spineless beasts. One day! Hopefully soon.
