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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Bolivia in the Spotlight: A New Coup in the Making?</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">José Manuel Blanco Diaz - August 10, 2021<br></div>
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<p>A little less than two years after the coup against Evo Morales in
the Plurinational State of Bolivia, political and social movements are
concerned that a new conspiracy is afoot, led by sectors of the right,
to overthrow the current President Luis Arce.</p>
<p>As a result, a spokesperson for the Union Federation of Mining
Workers of Bolivia stated that labor organizations remain on alert, and
expressed their willingness to counter any attempt to undermine the
stability and peace of the highland nation.</p>
<p>The pronouncement was made by union leader Gonzalo Quispe, who
participated in a joint press conference with representatives of 14
other social movements, labor organizations, and federations that make
up the Bolivian progressive forces.</p>
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<p>Similarly, statements were made by a spokesperson of the <em>Confederación de Mujeres Campesinas</em>
(Confederation of Peasant Women), Flora Aguilar: “To the fascist coup
plotters, who say they have strategies to overthrow governments, we tell
them here and now that the social movements are not going to allow it.”</p>
<p>Even the Indigenous leader Evo Morales had previously expressed his
concern with plans that are evidently in progress, aimed at removing
President Luis “Lucho” Arce from power, whom the Bolivian people elected
in October 2020 with an overwhelming 55.1% of votes cast. Arce’s
closest contender, the right-wing politician Carlos Mesa, only obtained
28.8% of the vote.</p>
<p><strong>Right wing on the prowl</strong><br>
Faced with this scenario, Evo Morales has been consistent in his
accusations of sectors of the extreme right, who attempt to divide the
revolutionary forces of Bolivia and carry out a campaign against Lucho
Arce by trying to sow false rumors about Vice President David
Choquehuanca.</p>
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<p>Likewise, in defending the current administration, Evo Morales added
that Bolivian women and men were not mistaken when they elected Luis
Arce as president, with whom the country has progressed in the recovery
of the economy, destroyed by the coup and the pandemic.</p>
<p>“Rebuilding the redistribution of resources: it is estimated that
growth will be more than 5%, and even at 4% it is already a total
success,” wrote Morales recently on social media.</p>
<p>With all this, the ghosts of the recent period that Bolivians lived
through, during the coup that installed Jeanine Añez in 2019, continue
to haunt the nation. In that case, there were complaints about
interference by governments of other countries and by the Organization
of American States (OAS) led by Luis Almagro, which supported the
conspiracy that took Morales out of power.</p>
<p>For these reasons, today there are investigations regarding the
relationships that leaders such as Ecuador’s Lenín Moreno or Argentina’s
Mauricio Macri had with the coup conspirators. Recently, evidence came
to light <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/argentinas-macri-sent-arms-for-bolivia-coup-massacres/">connecting</a>
these former presidents with shipments of weapons and supplies used by
the dictatorship of Jeanine Añez to repress the Bolivian people.</p>
<p><em>Featured image: Bolivian President Luis Arce. File photo.</em></p>
<p>(<a href="https://redradiove.com/bolivia-en-la-mira-nuevo-golpe-de-estado-en-marcha/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RedRadioVE</a>) by José Manuel Blanco Díaz</p>
<p>Translation: Orinoco Tribune</p><div id="gmail-mab-1369743891"><br><div>
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