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<h1 class="Post-title" data-reactid="175">Watch: Glenn
Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales,
Who Was Deposed in a Coup</h1>
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data-reactid="190"> - December 16 2019</span></span><br>
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<p><u>On November 10</u>, Evo Morales, who served as president
of Bolivia for 13 years and presided over extraordinary
economic growth and a reduction of inequality praised even
by his critics, announced that he was resigning the
presidency under duress, with implicit threats from the
Bolivian military. Morales later made clear that he viewed
these events as a classic right-wing military coup of the
kind that has plagued the continent for decades, explaining
that he was removed from his position by force and then
ultimately pressured by a police mutiny and military threats
to flee his own country.</p>
<p>Morales went to Mexico, where he was granted political
asylum, and has lived under heavy security in Mexico City
ever since (earlier this week, he was granted refugee status
in Argentina). On December 3, I sat with Morales in Mexico
City for an hourlong interview that was wide-ranging in
scope: not only about the events that led to his removal and
exile from Bolivia, but also broader trends in regional and
global politics, as well as the role played by the U.S. in
Latin America.</p>
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<p>We discussed who was behind this coup, what its motives
are, the role played by both the U.S. and Brazil, the use of
violence by the right-wing “interim” government against
Indigenous protesters, the criticisms voiced against him for
seeking a fourth term despite constitutional term limits,
and how his removal by military force in favor of an
unelected right-wing coup regime — led by the country’s
right, white, Christian minority — reflects broader
trends in Latin American politics and global political
trends generally.</p>
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<p>We also discussed the once-notorious but now forgotten
extraordinary event in 2013, when Morales’s presidential
plane was forced to land in Austria as he was traveling back
to Bolivia from a state visit in Russia, on the pretext that
the U.S. believed he had Edward Snowden on board and was
taking him back to Bolivia for asylum. And Morales was
particularly insightful on the role played by Bolivia’s
deals with China to sell lithium, and its alliance with
Russia, and why those relationships so infuriated the U.S.</p>
<p>I was not sure what to expect from this interview. After
all, Morales had suffered a violent military coup that
forced him from his country only weeks earlier, and I
thought that — brimming with anger and resentment over
recent events — he might be unwilling or unable to do much
more than offer platitudes about the injustices, repression,
and military violence in his country that forced him to
flee.</p>
<p>But that expectation proved untrue. Morales was incredibly
thoughtful, reflective, insightful, and analytical about
virtually everything we discussed, not only about Bolivia
but also regional and world politics. As someone who
presided over a left-wing success story for 13 years in the
U.S.’s backyard, he obviously has a unique and sophisticated
perspective on a wide range of geopolitical events, and that
wisdom shaped the interview. As a result, I regard this as
one of the most informative and compelling interviews I’ve
done. I hope you’ll watch the full 50-minute video as I
believe it’s well worth your time, providing a sophisticated
perspective rarely heard in the mainstream press.</p>
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