Thread by @mariliacout

1/ The Bolivian tragedy: it's really about finishing the indigenous genocide. Read on.

This is a document from the CIA - nothing less lefty for those of authoritarian leaning.

cia.gov/library/public…

2/ Let's interpret this:
=> The immense majority of the Bolivian population is indigenous. When we say 20% are indigenous, that's pure blood. "Mestizos" are mostly indigenous (and equally oppressed).

3/ Only 5% of the population is white. Less than 10% is evangelical. Latin American Catholics are syncretic: just like in Brazil, most flow seamlessly between native spirituality and their version of Catholicism.

4/ The "Masters of the Coup", particularly Camacho, are
- WHITE
- EVANGELICAL
- enemies of indigenous culture, having declared that Bolivia is "no place for Pachamama" and that he will make Bolivia a place of God and Christ (the evangelical version of).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachamama

5/ Pachamama is the Quechua and Aymara "World Mother". Let's add the other items that characterize the evangelical far-right:
- misogynist
- bigoted
- homophobic
- racist

ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizj…

6/ The Amazon fires that hurt Brazilian indigenous peoples affected Bolivian indigenous peoples the same way. If the right-wing seizes power for good in Bolivia, it will be a blood bath.

iwgia.org/en/bolivia

7/ This is what this opportunistic use of current political turbulence is about. They don't care about corruption (you will see corruption when they do it: it's the "real" thing). It's about the white evangelical minority against the Indigenous majority.

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