Military Coup in Bolivia
“We will come back and we will be millions, as Tupac Amaru II said.”
Bolivia is in a state of political crisis after longtime President Evo Morales resigned Sunday following a military coup d'état. Weeks of protests have taken place since a disputed election last month. Morales announced his resignation in a televised address Sunday, shortly after the Bolivian military took to the airwaves to call for his resignation. Bolivia’s vice president also resigned Sunday, as did the head of the Bolivian Senate and the lower house. Evo Morales was the longest-serving president in Latin America, as well as Bolivia’s first indigenous leader. He was credited with lifting nearly a fifth of Bolivia’s population out of poverty since he took office in 2006…
For more on the unfolding crisis in Bolivia, Amy Goodman speaks with Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His latest piece is The Trump Administration Is Undercutting Democracy in Bolivia.
“This is a military coup — there’s no doubt about it now,” Weisbrot says.
