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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMassive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia 'Against the Many Violations to Democracy'
From the article:
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/15/massive-anti-coup-protests-explode-across-bolivia-against-many-violations-democracy?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
triron
(22,023 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)If only most Americans cared more about democracy than they do about sports?
malaise
(269,187 posts)Run them
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)All a part of controlling the non-white populations of Central and South America.
And the Caribbean, of course.
malaise
(269,187 posts)the Deliverance anti-socialist posse fighting socialists and liberation theology.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But this history never makes it into the official histories.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)Asking for a friend.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The right is more favorable to US capitalists stealing from the country, as long as they receive their share of the stolen wealth.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)And lithium is valuable enough to steal, especially when China controls the other half.
In my perfect world, Bolivia would mine and refine their own lithium, sell it in a free market, and the profits would remain in the country. I can dream, can't I?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the already too rich can get even richer at the expense of the workers.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Other than Sanders have you seen Anything from any of the others,
I haven't.