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NOW: Evo Morales’ six-day-long march towards La Paz, Bolivia is about to enter the city. The government of Luis Arce says this is an attempted coup. We are reporting from on the ground.
Pro-Evo Indigenous movements will form two additional columns to enter other access points into La Paz.
Those marching are demanding the registration of Morales’ candidacy and are protesting against the deteriorating economic situation in the country.
Morales’ supporters are calling for President Arce’s resignation, and Arce’s supporters are calling for the arrest of Morales. This is seen by many as the final battle in the internal faction fights within the “Movement Towards Socialism” party.
All schools in La Paz are closed due to expected clashes later today.
What’s your opinion, or that of any reader passing here, about the way to behave when you’re attacked by the west ? Our newspapers often painted Evo Morales in a negative way despite his exemplarity, sometimes even as a dictator.
Wikipedia states that « Since 1950, Bolivia has seen the most coups of any country », isn’t sacrificing Evo Morales a good thing to please the west ? Will it be enough, and will it be beneficial for Bolivia ?
With that defeatist/cautious mindset, every opposition would have fallen one after the other, only brave rebellions ended slavery, colonization, occupations, … Fighting back seems more dangerous than submitting, but perhaps that it isn’t, and the current government isn’t really submitting but simply being less vocal, if sacrificing Evo could make them gain more years to develop their cultural revolution, then isn’t it worth it ?
On the other side, sacrificing Stalin didn’t accomplish much in the end, because the problem was that they dared to have a different ideology, and even when the u.s.s.r. and eastern europe progressively gave up on socialism, and disappeared, it still wasn’t enough, because Russia was then criticized for supporting Yugoslavia, Lybia, Syria, etc., the endgoal for now is the stupid uniformity, until Russia, and the rest of the world, is aligned with western interests.
There’s no talk of cooperation towards other different countries, it’s about selfish competition.
Yes, it’s tempting to be less vocal in your opposition, but it may also mean being less supportive of, e.g., Venezuela or Cuba, in the name of protecting your own country first.
Yes, nothing will change unless we unite together, but their/our history book is unfortunately full of martyrs that failed, should they/we avenge, e.g., Che Guevara, or learn to not make waves because they have responsabilities ?
Is this willingness of appeasing the west pointless(, whether or not it’s the cause of this feud) ?
From my point of view, their indigenous movement will be next once we’ve destroyed more influent differences such as islamists and the last socialists, they’re simply not powerful enough to be deemed a potential threat.
Yet on the other side it’d be foolish to haste a coup if it can be delayed or even avoided, and a bit naive to simply trust that the population will lead a civil war in order to get the power back.
Most countries try to stay neutral(, some by rejecting all sides and others by supporting all sides). This world sucks, nothing new, clearly nothing normal since uniformity isn’t desirable.
I think that may be a reason : Evo Morales isn’t supported enough by the west.
Does someone here have an opinion on the right action to take ? It’s hard to blame Luis Arce if it’s the main reason to act as such, but it’s also a dangerous slippery slope that he shouldn’t be proud of taking, once again if that’s indeed the reason.