In Cusco, Peru, children are throwing water balloons and spray foam at the coup regime's police officers. The cops are forced to retreat after getting soaked 😅
The South American left is in power in:
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇻🇪 Venezuela
They are polling in 1st place in:
🇧🇷 Brazil (Lula)
🇵🇪 Peru (Castillo)
🇨🇱 Chile (Left lists in constituyente)
🇨🇴 Colombia (Petro)
Something interesting is happening!
This is the leader the world has lost.
This from 2018, when Evo listed the crimes of the US, whilst sitting next to Trump at the UN. He was never defeated democratically, they could only win with a military coup.
BREAKING: Exit polls show that Bolivia's Movement Towards Socialism have won the presidency in the 1st round with 52.4% of the vote. This is an even higher score than when Evo Morales won in 2019.
Angela Merkel governed for 16 years, re-elected 4 times by the 🇩🇪 people.
Evo Morales governed for 13 years, re-elected 4 times by the 🇧🇴 people, and by much larger margins than Merkel ever got.
We're driving to Evo Morales' home town in Oruro, but every village along on the highway demands that he come out of the car so that they can express their support. Most give him food or some of their agricultural produce as a gift.
@RussOnPolitics
Yes, I'm aware that lots of foreigners from the West have moved into Israel and violently expelled the indigenous population. Stealing someone else's land doesn't make it your 'homeland'.
On a personal level, I can't believe this is finally happening, but it's what we've always known. Despite the massacres, despite the persecution, despite US intervention, the MAS is back and even more powerful. They can't put a lid on the majority of the people.
The return of democracy in Bolivia didn't come for free. So many young people gave their lives in the fight against the US coup. These are the heroes of Sacaba. In Senkata, Yapacaní & Pedregal too, so many paid the ultimate price for their country.
A small number of replies to this claim that the whole global south (the large majority of humankind) is irrelevant and should be ignored. This:
1. Proves the point about western racism
2. Factually wrong. Who do you think holds the worlds natural resources?
Just shockingly cruel. This woman came out to protest for her country, for the Revolution, but had her identity stolen *by the UN* and falsely portrayed as an anti-govt protester.
Latin Americans are always silenced if they don't agree with the US.
Coup attempt in Brazil obviously failed, but a real coup has taken place in Peru and those opposing it are being gunned down in the streets. The 'international community' and media are deliberately ignoring it.
When there were protests in Cuba (zero deaths) there was non stop coverage in western media.
Now there's anti-coup protests in Peru, 46 protesters killed. Silence.
Why is Mexico not siding with the West against Russia?
Context: Currently, the US & EU are attacking Mexico's policy of pursuing energy self-sufficiency (western corporations will lose out). 🇲🇽 isn't too keen on blindly following 🇺🇲🇪🇺 on other issues now
Israel attacking funerals brings back memories of when the US-backed coup regime in Bolivia targeted the funeral procession of those they'd massacred the day before in El Alto.
It's done. President Luis Arce. The Movement Towards Socialism is back in power. The Bolivia coup was defeated in just one year thanks to the sacrifice & struggle of the social movements.
Evo Morales when he was a union leader.
He was imprisoned, kidnapped, beaten, survived massacres, before reaching the presidency. The current coup leaders were probably on a shopping trip in Miami when this photo was taken.
The British government has sent a letter formally thanking Cuba, for taking in the passengers stuck on the Braemar cruise ship. They call it a 'great act of solidarity' from the Cuban government.
Unsurprisingly, UK media has ignored the story.
Bolivia expelled the DEA and saw drug production go ⬇️. Meanwhile, Colombia has the largest number of US military bases in South America and the narcos are loving it!
Leftist govts in Argentina & Bolivia are set to introduce a wealth tax to pay for post-Covid economic recovery. Neoliberal govts will push austerity & shock doctrine instead. The first path is worth fighting for everywhere.
Evo Morales returning to Bolivia is going to be most significant global event of this coming week. From his position as a union leader, he plans to speak to and guide social movements at a national and international level. We'll be there covering his return tour (9th-11th Nov)
Remember the Bolivian mayor who was kidnapped and tortured by pro-coup fascists? She's going to be a senate candidate for the MAS. They didn't manage to silence her.
BREAKING: Evo Morales has announced that the MAS have won in the first round & also have a majority in congress. This is based on the party's own vote counting system.
The regime has failed to give preliminary results and private companies are refusing to publish exit polls.
Heroin is disappearing, just one month after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Imagine if the US closed its military bases in Colombia, Peru, and Honduras...
Cuba's referendum had higher turnout than Italy's general election. That should tell you where people have faith in their democracy and where they do not.
In Villazón, Bolivia, people are bursting with excitment for the return of Evo Morales tomorrow. He'll be crossing the border on foot into this town on the Bolivian side.
"We're back in power, now theres millions more of us, even more than the first time"
President AMLO says that Mexico would send fuel to Venezuela, even though it violates US sanctions aimed at starving the Venezuelan people. He says of the US; 'no one has the right to oppress others, no hegemony is allowed to crush any country'.
Peru general strike: Indigenous andean communities are moving giant rocks to place at the barricades, without machinery. Inca style coordinated team work.
1. Pedro Castillo appoints a Marxist intellectual as Foreign Minister
2. The military (navy) forces the govt to remove him, they install a new guy
3. New guy signs a deal with USAID
Voters' wishes annulled ☑️
This is Bolivia. Quite extraordinary, considering that an unelected regime tried to exterminate this party, through massacres, persecution, racism, hunger. It didn't work. These people are facing down the coup and the most powerful country in the world, the US, all at once.
Above all, the victory in Bolivia shows that organised movements can always win. Even against vastly powerful enemies like the US, even when being massacred & jailed. If you fight you can win. There's nothing special about Bolivia, if it can happen here it can happen anywhere.
The EU welcomes Ukrainian refugees with opens arms. When Libyans were fleeing NATO bombs (and the ongoing total societal breakdown that followed) they were forced to drown at sea as a matter of policy.
The global south absolutely sees what the west is doing.
Both Fujimori and Bolivia's pro-coup opposition use the national football shirt as if it's their party uniform.
Absurd populist nonsense, but their aim is to use facile symbols to hide their unpatriotic politics of selling their country to the IMF & foreign corporations.
Bolivia's Indigenous/Andean architecture. These 'Cholets' are product of the economic boom under Evo that redistributed wealth outside the white elite. Development with identity.
I've been trying to tell westerners that global south countries do not share your view of Russia. Whether you agree or not, the western narrative is only accepted within colonial core.
Mexico's Congress has created a crossparty Russia 'friendship' group, both govt & opposition.
Venezuela's economy looking good for the first time since sanctions began. Monthly inflation is at the lowest rate since sanctions began (4.8% in Jan). Oil industry rebuilt thanks to Iranian assistance, now that it's rebuilt the price is $129 per barrel (unprecedented).
The left returns to power in Honduras, 12 years after the pro-narco coup backed by Hillary Clinton. An incredible victory for democracy in the Americas.
Right, so, if a Latin American left president verbally criticises the mainstream media it's considered an "assault on the press".
When Israel actually shoots a journalist in the head and then attacks said journalist's funeral, they're the 'only democracy in the Middle East' 🧐
A 19 year old has informed Bolivia's Human Rights Ombudsman that police illegally arrested & assaulted her and forced her to testify that she's 'Evo's girlfriend'. If she refused, they threatened to charge her with "terrorism & sedition", she had no lawyer for the interrogation.
Pretty funny how McDonalds doesn't exist in Bolivia. Not because they were banned, but because they went bankrupt. They invested millions and no one wanted to eat it lol
Those openly calling for the release of Jeanine Añez:
Biden's Secretary of State
Spain's fascist VOX party
Keiko Fujimori
Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Bolivia
Interesting clerical-fascist-liberal alliance.
6 months ago today, Jeanine Añez declared herself president of Bolivia. The massacres began shortly after.
She claimed to be an 'interim president', however, she's fighting any attempt to hold democratic elections. Her iron rule is propped up by the military, police & US embassy
Old video from Bolivia's state lithium company, 1 year before the coup. This plant is now closed and Añez's VP candidate has invited Elon Musk to produce batteries there ()
Lithium is the most important element in the world transition to renewable energy. The largest supplies will be controlled by progressive governments (Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico) who are already coordinating on this.
If done well, will have big geopolitical ramifications.
The uprising in Bolivia now is far more powerful than the resistance to the coup in November. There are many indigenous areas & mining towns that were opposed to the MAS, but who are now mobilised against the regime.
Important: The Bolivian military has been forced to withdraw from Plan 3000 (the largest working class area in the city of Santa Cruz)
After days of being harrassed, the community came together and peacefully expelled them last night.
(Vid from a friend there)
This *exact* set of events (fascist mobs seizing public institutons) took place in Bolivia. You celebrated it as victory for democracy. The taste of ones own medicine isn't particularly nice is it?
When groups of armed nihilists attempt to destroy federal buildings that are key to the maintenance of the rule of law, it is the responsibility of public officials to identify, arrest and punish them.
Cuba will soon launch the first Latin American Covid vaccine. An extraordinary and world historic achievement for the Cuban revolution. Impossible without their socialist system.
Yesterday Bolivia, today Chile, tomorrow Ecuador.
It's possible for popular movements to win. Latin America has shown that numerous times in the past 20 years.
Opposition protests in Cuba never materialised, elections in Nicaragua went ahead without disturbance, right-wing protests in Bolivia isolated in one city but now officially over following internal splits.
Uncle Sam left out in the cold.