{"id":1324,"date":"2014-11-09T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2014-11-09T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:42:30","slug":"bolivian-authoritarianism-not-just-a-right-wing-charge-roar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Bolivian authoritarianism: not just a right-wing charge | ROAR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roarmag.org\/2014\/11\/bolivia-authoritarianism-mas-elections\/\">Bolivian authoritarianism: not just a right-wing charge | ROAR Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">Winning Bolivia\u2019s presidential elections in 2005, 2009 and most recently in October 2014, Evo Morales of the\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Movimiento al Socialismo\u00a0<\/em>(MAS), or Movement for Socialism, has now entered his third presidential term. Morales is known worldwide as Bolivia\u2019s first indigenous president, an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, and a beacon of hope for the international left. However, inside Bolivia there are many progressives \u2014 including Morales\u2019 former comrades \u2014 who accuse him of betraying his own political agenda, unjustly libeling all critics as right-wing conspirators, and abusing state powers to silence them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">The MAS won its third landslide victory in October\u2019s presidential elections. Taking 54 percent of the vote in 2005 and 64 percent in 2009, incumbent president Evo Morales received around 60 percent this year. There were only two choices in the elections, Morales was\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/13\/us-bolivia-election-idUSKCN0I103120141013\">quoted<\/a>\u00a0as saying by Reuters: \u201cThis was a debate on two models: nationalization or privatization. Nationalization won with more than 60 percent (support).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">It is not the first time that Morales has simplified Bolivian politics as a binary choice between a left-wing government and a right-wing opposition. In March, the President\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paginasiete.bo\/nacional\/2014\/3\/30\/morales-pueblo-masistas-fascistas-17561.html\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0a crowd of\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">masistas<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cthere are only two roads defined by the people. If they are not<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u00a0masistas<\/em>, they are fascists,\u201d and \u201cif they are not<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">oficialistas<\/em>\u00a0[supporters of the ruling party], they are imperialists!\u201d According to the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/comunicacion.gob.bo\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/discursos\/I.SACABA-COCHABAMBA.DISCURSO%20DEL%20PRESIDENTE%20EN%20CELEBRACION%20DEL%2019%20ANIVERSARIO%20DEL%20MAS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">official minutes<\/a>\u00a0of this speech, the crowd applauded approvingly. For Morales, all opponents of the MAS belong to the same camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivian authoritarianism: not just a right-wing charge | ROAR Magazine. Winning Bolivia\u2019s presidential elections in 2005, 2009 and most recently in October 2014, Evo Morales of the\u00a0Movimiento al Socialismo\u00a0(MAS), or Movement for Socialism, has now entered his third presidential term. Morales is known worldwide as Bolivia\u2019s first indigenous president, an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,990,991],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-bolivia","tag-evo-morales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}