Ah yes, well we've been funding Carlos "Yaku" Perez for some time (unless we interfered in some more blatant way I'm unaware of?)

Really wouldn't surprise me if Biden did it. Anyone wanna place bets on what his first foreign intervention will be?

Can't wait for this to also happen to RT and TeleSUR

Where's DSA more broadly on this issue for that matter, where are the protests against these genocidal sanctions now that we have a president who at least pretends to be a decent person? Easier to just be the AOC fan club I guess

Indiegogo fundraiser/trailer are here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/washington-bullets-help-us-expose-bolivia-s-coup/x/26565025#/

"This man may look smart but in fact is stupid" -Deng Xiaoping on Mikhail Gorbachev

I've also read this, but I think it's had a better safety record so far?

I feel you--we're hoping to get some more of the footage we've shot uploaded soon

Thanks for the heads up. I have a paypal account--if anyone prefers to donate that way send me a DM

We were actually thinking of the song by The Clash! But we messaged Vijay Prashad, he's cool with the name

We're still working on promoting it! We've been a little busy on the ground here, but the documentary is getting made, no worries

Thank you!

Excellent, check your DMs!

Thanks so much!

We were just made aware of the book by Vijay Prashad (I suppose we're bad comrades for not being aware of this work by a great author)--we had originally gotten the title from the song by The Clash! But we've contacted Dr. Prashad to make sure there's no issue. Worse case scenario, we change the title, and best case scenario, we get him to take part in the documentary. He's exactly the kind of person we want to be part of this--in addition to getting testimony from Bolivians on the ground, we want to feature some anti-imperialist academics and personalities to help put this all in context, in regards to the U.S.'s historical interference in Bolivia as well as imperialist aggression in Latin America and throughout the world.

Thank you! ✊

I say Evo changed the name, actually it was part of a new constitution written by a constituent assembly that the country overwhelmingly passed in a referendum. Damn authoritarian socialists letting the people write and vote for their own constitution 😤😤😤

Yep. They were shouting "somos republica!" because Evo also changed the official name of the country from the Republic of Bolivia to the Plurinational State of Bolivia to recognize the indigenous nations that claimed the land. This also pissed off the racists and ever since just about every right-wing party has made it a plank of their platform to change the name back because they can't tolerate any recognition of the indigenous peoples

I don't think I would've known as much about the coup without the chapo subreddit, what with the links to the audio clips of the opposition and everything else. Absolutely essential.

Whoever made this a featured post, huge thanks. I lurked the old Chapo subreddit, really nice to find a bunch of likeminded people here after dealing with idiots on twitter all day.

We're very much informed by the chapo mindset but try to cover latin american politics a bit more, we'll continue to share some stuff occasionally!

Ollie Vargas is a good twitter follow. English-speaking journalist reporting from Bolivia. Everything he writes is good. Occasionally Grayzone will publish good stuff on Bolivia as well.