I would prefer critics to focus on the US sanctions against Venezuela.
Those sanctions are a) helping ordinary people suffer, b) prolonging the life of the Maduro regime, and c) thwarting prospects for US-based multinational companies in the area. By suffering, I am referring to poor medical treatment, a loss of hygiene and clean drinking water, various levels of starvation.
Point c) might matter only for American interests as there are typically many non-US based sophisticated multinational companies to fill the gap these days. But that should point out how self-loathing these sanctions are with the implicit suggestion that other policy actions would steer US policy in a win-win direction.
Latin American leftists share a lot in common with Latin American as well as US conservatives. All these folks love zero-sum game and negative-sum game outcomes. They all believe in arbitrary takings and do not care about well-defined, secure economic property rights. They all thrive on us versus them righteousness.
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election last year in a dictatorial assault upon democracy. Two landslide victories in as many years is neither "stunning" nor a "comeback", it's just the people decisively making their will known two times. (...)
R_P: Imperialism..... Whether the USA backed the coup or not, did it really make a difference?
Not if you're intent on downplaying (how fashionable!) the event, the role of the OAS (incl. Canada's role), and your beloved generals who figured out the right course of action.
You should spend some time in Latin America, in particular chatting up conservatives. They don't require US help to do all kinds of nasty stuff.
The nasty was already apparent (and it echoes centuries). Who requires/helps who?
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election last year in a dictatorial assault upon democracy. Two landslide victories in as many years is neither "stunning" nor a "comeback", it's just the people decisively making their will known two times. (...)
R_P: Imperialism..... Whether the USA backed the coup or not, did it really make a difference?
Not if you're intent on downplaying (how fashionable!) the event, the role of the OAS (incl. Canada's role), and your beloved generals who figured out the right course of action.
You should spend some time in Latin America, in particular chatting up conservatives. They don't require US help to do all kinds of nasty stuff.
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election last year in a dictatorial assault upon democracy. Two landslide victories in as many years is neither "stunning" nor a "comeback", it's just the people decisively making their will known two times. (...)
R_P: Imperialism..... Whether the USA backed the coup or not, did it really make a difference?
Not if you're intent on downplaying (how fashionable!) the event, the role of the OAS (incl. Canada's role), and your beloved generals who figured out the right course of action.
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election last year in a dictatorial assault upon democracy. Two landslide victories in as many years is neither "stunning" nor a "comeback", it's just the people decisively making their will known two times. (...)
R_P: Imperialism..... Whether the USA backed the coup or not, did it really make a difference?
This is the same old, same old, that we got when a military coup overthrew the Allende government in 1973. The US backed the coup, just like the US backed the violent purges of suspected left-wing guerrilla in Argentina.
So what? What difference did it make? Do you think there would have been no military coups in Argentina and Chile without US backing? Strikes me as delusional, wishful thinking.
I suspect that the author of the article Caitlin Johnstone is a racist or at the very minimum suffers from the prejudice of really, low expectations. She views Amayara and other indigenous folk as culturally inferior and incapable of sorting their own affairs.
Now it is possible that Caitlin Johnstone has no understanding of how Neo-Marxist guided populist movements and governments in poor, developing countries have been complete and utter disasters.
Or maybe she is intrinsically anti-democratic? Maybe she is anti-science and anti-expertise just like Trump supporters?
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election last year in a dictatorial assault upon democracy. Two landslide victories in as many years is neither "stunning" nor a "comeback", it's just the people decisively making their will known two times. (...)
Somebody should give Evo Morales citizenship in either the USA or Israel. His ability to talk around the issues is absolutely outstanding.
But not Canada. Same attitude towards the indigenous (despite all the virtuous blathering).
What do you mean? We tolerate corruption in FN communities. What is the problem?
The problem is pointing a finger at others, while excusing (or ignoring) your own policies. It tends to come (in most of those countries) with victim blaming.
Somebody should give Evo Morales citizenship in either the USA or Israel. His ability to talk around the issues is absolutely outstanding.
But not Canada. Same attitude towards the indigenous (despite all the virtuous blathering).
What do you mean? We tolerate corruption in FN communities. What is the problem?
The problem is pointing a finger at others, while excusing (or ignoring) your own policies. It tends to come (in most of those countries) with victim blaming.
Somebody should give Evo Morales citizenship in either the USA or Israel. His ability to talk around the issues is absolutely outstanding.
But not Canada. Same attitude towards the indigenous (despite all the virtuous blathering).
What do you mean? We tolerate corruption in FN communities. What is the problem?
The problem is pointing a finger at others, while excusing (or ignoring) your own policies. It tends to come (in most of those countries) with victim blaming.
