The NYT has shifted on Bolivia from pro-coup to aligning itself with parts of the “gringo left” that insist on demonizing Evo, MAS, and Indigenous supporters for “overreach.” The North’s third way — “neither Evo nor coup” — is still the imperialist way. 
In the Indigenous movement in the North, Bolivia has been a wake up call. We watched in horror as right wingers and “leftists” in the United States cheered on a fascist coup and the toppling of an Indigenous government. This coup was decades in the making.
The paper of record has adopted the dominant anti-anti-imperialist position — which is more vigorously against a democratically elected leftist Indigenous president than actual fascists.
Some in the US and Canada have acted as if Indian massacres and a return to racial apartheid in Bolivia are preferable to a leftist government run by Indigenous people. We see you.
