Evo Morales just resigned at the behest of the military, just after announcing fresh elections.
You still backing fresh elections now he's resigned and the military has taken over or no?
Didn't resign due to the protests though did he, resigned due to the actual military coup being carried out today, after announcing a repeat election.
WaPo did a glowing feature on Bolivian capitalist growth a couple of weeks ago.
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6k RTs and over 10,000 RTs, but this is completely inaccurate and not even what the Telesur article says. Why does no-one read through?
Telesur actually says: Morales announced a partnership between YPFB (Bolivia's state energy company, fully nationalised for ages) and German firm ACI Systems GmbH to produce lithium batteries in Bolivia. This was in June. Industrialisation of the resource, not nationalisation.
Since June, there have been protests against the deal with ACI systems in Potosi, where the battery factory would be built.
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Morales blamed the protests as being stoked by the right wing opposition parties, but then subsequently cancelled the project - this article is from 4th November. dw.com/en/bolivia-scr…
So this isn't Morales the anti-imperialist standing up to the West and getting overthrown, it's Morales happy to accelerate extractive capitalism in a public-private partnership with German capital and blaming protests against this on right-wingers.
That doesn't mean lithium has nothing to do with this week's events - various countries were angling for a raw lithium deal, which is how the Germans won this contract because they allowed for on-site manufacture, but we should try to actually understand what's going on.
Regardless, this point is right: both the Democrat and Labour Green New Deals argue for 1-1 replacement of petrol cars with electric, which is hundreds of millions of massive lithium batteries to produce.
Potosi isn't new to protests under Morales. Here's a Graun article mostly concerned about the inconvenience to tourists caused by a mass miners strike and blockade there in 2010.
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The Bolivian military has released a statement essentially saying "this isn't a coup, we just asked him to resign right before he resigned". So that's all cleared up then!
Proper English translation very welcome - will link.
Proper English translation very welcome - will link.
Translation of that statement threaded here:
Morales just offered (and accepted) asylum by Mexico.
The biggest obstacle to the Bolivian right capitalising on the coup will be the response of Bolivia's working class. This is a good sign, please tag us in to more examples of the response.
Some translations of pieces written by Bolivian activists. This is by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar from November 8th.
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From María Galindo founder of long-standing Bolivian anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Creando.
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Translation of a short statement by Bolivian writer Oscar Martínez
