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Bolivia's socialist, anti-imperialist, Indigenous President Evo Morales just won re-election — so the right-wing opposition is now resorting to violent riots

They burned the offices of the state electoral body in numerous cities and set fire to ballots
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Here is video of violent right-wing mobs from the political opposition burning down an office of the state electoral body after Indigenous socialist President Evo Morales won reelection in Bolivia
Being a sore loser is one thing, but what do you call violent right-wing mobs that burn down government buildings when they lose?
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The fake "progressive" NYC college the New School invited right-wing Venezuelan elites to spew regime-change propaganda in support of Trump's far-right coup attempt — so Chavistas disrupted the event

One of the speakers was coup "comedian" Joanna Hausmann
pscp.tv/w/1nAJEZDbLXOxL
Coup activist and "comedian" Joanna Hausmann is from one of Venezuela's most elite right-wing families. Born in the UK, living luxuriously in the US, she is the daughter of the neoliberal Harvard economist who wrecked Venezuela's economy

The NYT hid that:
thegrayzone.com/2019/04/09/nyt…
Joanna Hausmann's right-wing Harvard economist father Ricardo was forced to resign as representative for US puppet / Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó after The @GrayzoneProject exposed his conflicts of interest and hypocritical financial practices
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/27/fol…
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Trump again accidentally confirmed the real intentions behind the US military occupation of northeast Syria:

"We want to keep the oil, and we'll work something out with the Kurds...Maybe we'll have one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly"
cnn.com/2019/10/21/pol…
Through his own arrogance and stupidity, Trump is admitting what we have been saying: The US strategy was to militarily occupy the NE region with 90% of Syria's oil and 70% of its wheat, to block the Syrian gov't access, weaken it, and starve it of revenue
The US government is now making it clear that it is leaving troops to illegally occupy Syria's oil-rich territory, using the excuse of "protecting it from ISIS," when it is actually preventing the Syrian government from accessing its own oil
cnn.com/2019/10/20/pol…
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Totally false right-wing propaganda. It's crazy that anyone believes these absurd myths

The (tiny, rich, elite) opposition regularly has protests in Venezuela, without any repression at all

Unlike this propagandist I spent 5 months in Venezuela this year
Venezuela has not even arrested the right-wing coup-mongers who are openly collaborating with the US and Colombian death squads and calling on the military to overthrow the elected govt

In the US they would be hanged for treason. In Caracas they walk free
In fact a major right-wing opposition leader admitted Venezuela “is not a dictatorship,” calling it a “huge error” to claim otherwise

She conceded the only way to topple the popular elected Chavista government is with foreign “humanitarian intervention” thegrayzone.com/2019/05/15/opp…
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