Evo Morales

Bolivia kicked out USAID way back in two thousand thirteen, thirteen years ago.

Evo Morales did it himself.

You can't cut off money that stopped flowing twelve years ago.

Chile, they elected José Antonio Coste in a landslide.

Chávez toured Latin America, and even when he advocated Latin American unity, a large part of his efforts went to friendly countries with whose governments there were deep ideological ties.

This is the case of Bolivia and Ecuador, where their presidents, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, stormed to the political arena, as well as Chavez, to break the existing political models.

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Um, there's increasingly been the sense of the growth of public insecurity and in corruption, and that left-of-center governments were inadequate in, um, bringing the people what they needed in, in terms of that public security, or a sense that, uh, um, previous leftist populist governments had fundamentally undermined democracy.

If you look at Rafael Correa in Ecuador, um, if you look at the legacy of Evo Morales in, in Bolivia, and thus a desire to kind of get away from that by electing right-of-center governments.

A certain fatigue with the left and some of the causes, uh, with, uh, with Lula in, in Brazil.

So, so I think, uh, there's been a sense, at least for the moment, um, that moving away from, from the left is, is what the people of the region right now wanna try, um, to respond to legitimate imperatives of security and economic growth.

Another reason why the U.S. is so enraged by the Bolivian attorney general prosecuting their guy points out Camila Lourdes Galarza is, quote, that bribing attorney generals to run political lawfare campaigns against the left is their whole strategy.

From Lavo Yalto to Diana Salazar framing revolutionary quiadana for Villavicino's murder to the DEA hunting Evo Morales.

Infiltrating the judicial system has become a principal strategy for turning a nation into a U.S. client state.

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Very much so.

Under the, the MAS government, Evo Morales and his successors, there wasn't really any exploration or modern exploration, and that's what-

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... 20, 25 years.

He worked in the second Trump administration.

And back in 2020, a critic on Twitter denounced the US government for organizing a coup against Bolivia's democratically elected left-wing president, Evo Morales.

So billionaires like Elon Musk and his company Tesla could exploit the lithium in Bolivia.

And what was incredible is that Elon Musk responded on Twitter, and he said, quote, "We will coup whoever we want.

The term democracy is meaningless in this global imperialist dictatorship where big corporations have the backing of the most powerful government on Earth to overthrow any democracy anywhere, regardless of whether or not the people voted for a government.

They don't care.

And this US-backed coup against Bolivia's democratically elected socialist president, Evo Morales, in 2019 is extremely important because this was just a few years ago.

It demonstrated that these CIA-backed coups that we talk about in Iran and other countries are not just history.

Why Israel? What does Colombia have to do with Israel?

Um, Evo Mo- I think it was Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, he called Colombia the Israel of Latin America.

Um, they were getting a lot of Israeli weapons, training.

I mean, going back to, um, 1984, this will help explain some things about this, um, v- very weird phenomenon, but the Congress passes the Boland Amendment during the height of the Contra War, um, that requires, that required Reagan or any executive to sign off on covert action.

So, I mean, there's a bright and also a dark side of being part of this union, but I just try to make portrait of this, not really a judgment, but yes, as you said, not only in this community, but in the whole country, Bolivia is a very strong union rule country.

Actually, we have a president like Evo Morales, who comes up from a union, from Coca-Cola Union.

So it's very part of culture and our government also.

Okay, well, let's focus on the story itself.

She's a Bolivian lawyer and a political analyst.

She's a former supporter of leftist President Evo Morales, turned staunch critic.

She was shot three times by two armed gunmen the day before outside of a hotel in the Bolivian lowland capital city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

That's the heart of Bolivia's agricultural heartland and one of the most conservative regions in the country.