{"id":49616,"date":"2019-11-14T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49616"},"modified":"2019-11-14T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:01:11","slug":"the-us-wanted-a-coup-in-bolivia-like-magic-it-got-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49616","title":{"rendered":"The US Wanted a Coup in Bolivia: Like Magic, It Got One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneymaven.io\/mishtalk\/economics\/the-us-wanted-a-coup-in-bolivia-like-magic-it-got-one-I7fUjhVmLEi7LceJsJg7ug\/\">The US Wanted a Coup in Bolivia: Like Magic, It Got One<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageproxy.themaven.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fmaven-user-photos%2Fmishtalk%2Feconomics%2FzmfATcSa4EegwR7v_znq6Q%2FfJw1fsrY1keNvCPmRI1p-g\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolivia&#8217;s President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup. What happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Military Coup<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US wanted Leftist President Evo Morales gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guess what? He&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guardian reports&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/13\/morales-bolivia-military-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Many Wanted Morales Out. But What Happened in Bolivia was a Military Coup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On Sunday the head of Bolivia\u2019s military called on Evo Morales to resign from the presidency. Minutes later Morales was on a plane to Cochabamba where he did just that. These facts leave little doubt that what happened in Bolivia this weekend was a military coup, the first such event in Latin America since the 2009 military coup against Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya. (The 2012 and 2016 impeachments of Paraguay\u2019s Fernando Lugo and Brazil\u2019s Dilma Rousseff are widely viewed as \u201cparliamentary coups.\u201d)<\/p><p>The mainstream press has bent over backwards, and tied itself in more than a few tangled knots, to avoid drawing this conclusion. The Wall Street Journal celebrates Morales\u2019 ouster as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-democratic-breakout-in-bolivia-11573517299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">democratic breakout<\/a>.\u201d The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/11\/opinion\/evo-morales-bolivia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;is characteristically more circumspect, hemming and hawing about how \u201cthe forced ouster of an elected leader is by definition a setback for democracy\u201d but might also \u201chelp Bolivia restore its wounded democracy.\u201d This head-spinning rhetoric does not prevent the Times from swiftly dismissing left-of-center politicians\u2019 \u201cpredictable\u201d claims that what happened was a coup.<\/p><p>It is hardly surprising that conservative governments and powerful media outlets applaud Morales\u2019 ouster and dismiss the claim it constitutes a coup. More surprising is that leftist commentators, including Raquel Guti\u00e9rrez and Raul Zibechi, have taken a similar stance. Zibechi attributes Morales\u2019 fall to a \u201cpopular uprising.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Morales\u2019 Illegitimacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Wanted a Coup in Bolivia: Like Magic, It Got One Bolivia&#8217;s President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup. What happened? Military Coup The US wanted Leftist President Evo Morales gone. Guess what? He&#8217;s gone. The Guardian reports&nbsp;Many Wanted Morales Out. But What Happened in Bolivia was a Military Coup. On Sunday the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[990,14648,6917],"class_list":["post-49616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bolivia","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49616","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=49616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49617,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49616\/revisions\/49617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}