• Circra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This will mean CIA funded and operated death squads in Bolivia. They'll do what they did in Nicaragua. They will deliberately target children as well as schools, clinics and anywhere else connected to the government.

    Press will be largely silent on this of course. However when the Bolivian government actually retaliates, every news outlet that bothers reporting on Latin America will be banging on about it. Economic sanctions will follow, terror attacks and death squads will continue and there will be another coup or an election where MAS leaders and coordinators have been systematically murdered or more likely had their kids butchered in front of them.

    The paternalistic relationship that the headline insinuates exists for sure. The US is the kind of father figure that puts out lit cigarettes on their kids' arms or beats them bloody with a belt. Kind of like that joke where the two kids at Sunday school are arguing about whether santa exists or not and one says to the other 'don't be stupid. Santa's like the devil. He's not real, it's just your dad.'

    Anyone arguing for US involvement in Latin America or anywhere else for that matter is either ignorant or pure evil.

      • Circra [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Solidarity is more than just an expression. Back in the 70's BAE engineers in Scotland refused to repair planes sent there by Pinnochet's air force. They literally sat, rusting in hangars for years. That act of solidarity absolutely saved lives and I am sure there are countless others I can't think of at the moment.

        At the very least, when the war drums start, make it very, very loudly known what this evil is.