A report from Bolivia by Max Blumenthal and his team, right after the elections that restored Evo Morales’ party to power. The question now is what is being done by the MAS patriotic movement to consolidate their victory, and what dirty tricks the US and its local allies in Bolivia and the region are plotting to weaken and roll back the popular gains. The empire never rests and never forgets. And it has almost infinite resources.
BOLIVIA
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MoA—Congratulation to the Movimiento al Socialismo, its candidate Luis Arce and the people of Bolivia who withstood the onslaught of intimidation and violence from the right and the military. Even as democracy is now restored in Bolivia it would be wrong to let the right and the military get away with what they have done. They will otherwise try to do it again. The coup leaders should be hauled in front of a court. Bolivia should ask Venezuela for advice on how to coup proof its military forces.
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BREAKING: Bolivia Defeats Coup! (Moment of Clarity)
3 minutes readLEE CAMP—Lee Camp celebrates and comments on the results of the latest election in Bolivia, restoring the socialist MAS to power. Will the US and its oligarchic accomplices respect the results of the election? That remains to be seen.
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TOP BOLIVIAN COUP PLOTTERS TRAINED BY US MILITARY
27 minutes readJEB SPRAGUE—A mysterious organization, APALA has shut down its website ApalaUSA.com and does not answer phone calls. It functions in some capacity as an arm of U.S. federal agencies as its social media platform and now defunct website showcase numerous meetings and photos of APALA officials and participants alongside FBI, DEA, ICE, and other U.S. officials.
As Philip Agee explained in his book Inside the Company, the CIA often uses other U.S. government agencies such as the FBI and USAID, as well as various front-organizations, to carry out its clandestine activities without leaving fingerprints.
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Bolivian coup officials and supporters stalk international election observers, launch violent incitement campaign
28 minutes readBEN NORTON—A far-right Bolivian activist and coup supporter, Nadia Beller, published photos on Facebook and Twitter of The Grayzone electoral observers. The images make it clear that we were being closely monitored while in the airport in Chile. Photos of Blumenthal as he boarded the airplane in Santiago were also published online.
Beller shared the itinerary of when our flight was due to arrive in Santa Cruz, implicitly encouraging her followers to come to the airport to threaten election monitors.
She also falsely smeared Max Blumenthal as a “disinformation expert from RT.”
These stalker photos were subsequently amplified by prominent right-wing Bolivian media personalities, such as Agustín Zambrana Arze.