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There's a lot of pretty bad takes on #Bolivia happening now, and fortunately some goods ones (see comments). Quick thoughts: 1. Right now the most concerning aspect is the far-right racist even fascistic violence occurring, and total disrespect of constitutional order 1/
There's a lot of pretty bad takes on #Bolivia happening now, and fortunately some goods ones (see comments). Quick thoughts: 1. Right now the most concerning aspect is the far-right racist even fascistic violence occurring, and total disrespect of constitutional order 1/
2) Govt ministers are literally being forced to flee and resign due to threats to themselves and their families. 3) The military is what led Morales to resign, so pretending they aren't involved or that their involvement isn't incredibly problematic is shortsighted at best 2/
4) There were many legitimate critiques of Morales and the recent election and legit questions to ask but 5) Thinking the OAS is a neutral or fair player is crazy, as @AleVelascoNYU has correctly pointed out; 6) The future looks very, very scary right now 3/
7) Perhaps as always the main hope is perhaps with social movements, but I worry about the demobilization of movements that happened under Morales...there's parallels (and differences obv) with Brazil under Dilma, where left party sort of sells out base and they're weakened 4/
This decidedly complicates the task of resistance to what is shaping up to be a far-right, military regime backed by the US. Of course I hope that things will shake out differently but the picture minute by minute is just awful right now.. 5/
@bretgustafson @jderpic @nikifab77 amongst others are offering much needed context and analysis. So see what they are saying!
