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.
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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.
Looks like the coup failed even faster than Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s: https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-military-deployment-arce-coup-fears-028cd88f3be1fb02164c05deb0faa099
I keep hearing it was fake & straight (like staged to bolster approval)
Apparently, that’s what the general allegedly behind it is claiming but I’m not sure I trust the word of “guy who just got arrested for leading a failed coup attempt.” But who knows?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bolivia’s President Luis Arce called on the country to “organize and mobilize against the coup d’état, in favor of democracy” after soldiers and armored military vehicles positioned themselves around governmental buildings in La Paz on Wednesday.
According to footage from the scene, armed soldiers gathered around Murillo Plaza, a main square in La Paz where the national executive and legislative offices are located.
Morales, who publicly split from his one-time ally Arce, also called on “the social movements of the countryside and the city to defend democracy.” Morales resigned in 2019 following mounting protests over accusations of fraud in the elections; at the time, he claimed he was forced out in a coup.
International leaders including Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña and the European Union condemned the attempted coup.
The European Union said it opposed “any attempt to disrupt the constitutional order in Bolivia and overthrow democratically elected governments,” adding it stands in solidarity with the Bolivian government and its people, according to a post from European policy chief Josep Borrell on X.
According to state media agency ABI, the military mobilization began around 2:30 p.m. local time.
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But, it couldn't happen here, right?
Anyway, the coup failed and the General ran away.