punk rebel ecks posted:

I was under the impression that Pachakutik were "the good guys"?

Pomeroy posted:

https://www.liberationnews.org/will-the-left-return-to-power-in-ecuador/

"Pérez presents himself as a left wing environmentalist and a representative of the country’s Indigenous movement. But he and his political movement have in fact been close allies of Ecuador’s right wing that represents the country’s traditional oligarchy. Pérez has said he is open to trade deals with the United States and has openly courted U.S. officials. He is an avowed opponent of many of the leaders targeted for regime change by the United States, having supported the fascist coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in 2019 and attempts to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. Perez’s movement played a role in an unsuccessful coup attempt to remove Rafael Correa from office in 2010."

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/yaku-perez-pachakutik-ecuador-us-coup/

"Pérez’s ostensibly progressive ideology is filled with contradictions. While the Correista candidate Arauz has proposed giving $1000 checks to one million working-class Ecuadorian families, Pérez has attacked the plan on the grounds that poor citizens would spend all the money on beer in one day."

'The party of Pérez, Pachakutik, identifies as “ecosocialist” and claims to represent Ecuador’s Indigenous communities. But like the candidate that leads it, it employs left-wing rhetoric to paper over regressive goals.'

'Pachakutik is closely linked to NGOs funded by Washington and EU member states. The party’s leaders have been trained by the US government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI), a CIA cutout that operates under the auspices of the National Endowment for Democracy.'

'In the past, Pérez and Pachakutik helped lead protests against Ecuador’s former President Correa, forming an unspoken alliance with the country’s right-wing oligarchs in a bid to destabilize and overthrow the socialist president. In fact, Pachakutik played a significant role in a US-backed 2010 coup attempt that came close to undemocratically removing Correa from power.'

'The leading right-wing candidate in the 2021 election, the wealthy banker Lasso, is not threatened by the “ecosocialist” rhetoric of Pérez and Pachakutik. He seems keenly aware that the label is just a marketing plot. Lasso publicly declared that if Pérez somehow made it to a second round, Lasso would gladly support Pérez to defeat the Correistas.'

'The banker’s endorsement is unsurprising when one considers that, back in 2017, before he changed his name from Carlos to Yaku, Pérez himself supported Lasso’s presidential bid.'

'Even before the violent regime change operation, Pérez was a harsh critic of Morales, accusing him and Correa of “authoritarianism, machismo, extractivism, and populism.” Pérez flatly refused to recognize the legitimacy of Evo’s government.'

'In 2017, Pérez attacked Evo again, tweeting, “His ignorance is encyclopedic. Evo is biologically Indigenous; in terms of his identity he whitewashed and colonized himself and doesn’t feel or understand the Native cosmovision.”'

punk rebel ecks posted:

Isn't he still attacking him from the left? Arauz threw Correa under the bus though and has been moving Ecuador further to the right.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

No.

punk rebel ecks posted:

I was under the impression that Pachakutik were "the good guys"?

punk rebel ecks posted:

Isn't he still attacking him from the left? Arauz threw Correa under the bus though and has been moving Ecuador further to the right.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Wow, those examples make Perez seem to fit right in with the Bolivian anti-MAS environmental crowd.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

just banning the first place winner by a large margin from the runoff nbd normal democracy stuff here

Josef bugman posted:

Have they actually banned him or are they just getting very cross and yelling that they will/ should ban them because they are winning too much?

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Facebook said it was "ready to work with local authorities", but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade.

sexpig by night posted:

Lol we're still loving this chicken I guess

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1366917587578331144

Egg Moron posted:

steinrokkan posted:

I can't believe she hadn't left the country months ago

Traveller posted:

I can't believe General Baquedano is dead

Traveller posted:

I can't believe General Baquedano is dead

Moron posted:

Its sad because we bolivians have had an insight into the imputation and have seen no evidence whatsoever, anticipating how corrupt and shameful the trial will be.

Guy Responding to Moron posted:

I don't mind you stating your opinion but don't assume you speak for all Bolivians. As far as I saw her presidency was just as currupt as many of the previous presidents.

Moron's Response posted:

I do mind you repliying your opinion with no though whatsoever in what I've said.

Was her presidency corrupt? Yes. Should she be put on trial for charges of corruption? Yes.

The problem here is that she is being indicted on charges of staging a coup, a narrative that falls apart when you see one of the nunerous laws ratified by the legislative asembly controled by a oposition who could have unrecognized her and nominate a president. Or like when Arce was interview in national TV and state that she was "a transitional president, a constitutional transitional president, but a transitional president nonetheless."

The Problem with Anez is that she wasn't more fascist! posted:

Just curious as to whether you're a Bolivian living outside of the country during this whole ordeal or an actual resident and if so could you specify where?

Because anyone living in Bolivia knows that we have no real justice due to the MAS party since the laws only apply to the opposition and not the MAS militants.

While Añez was a terrible transitional president for not doing what the MAS is doing to her right now and surrounding herself with the same people that Morales did at no point in time did a coup exist (Outside of Morales's coup when he went against the referendom results against his rerererelection) but she's being illegally detained due to sedition and terrorism while the narrative of a coup is still being pushed.

To contrast Añez's persecution by the MAS party in cochabamba we've got actual seditious MAS militants (K'ara K'ara) that have openly stated that they will not let Manfred govern and they will create their own municipality so you know actual terrorism and sedition, yet not a peep from the 'justice' branch. Link

So please clarify that for me since a great of majority of Bolivians live with the reality that in this country justice is selective and tainted by the MAS party so we know how corrupt and forced her trial will be if this is the way they're detaining her and her ministers.

The Colonizers Only Controlled Bolivia for Four Terms! posted:

Correction you were born in Bolivia but you have spent the majority of your life living in other countries because only a tourist would say this rediculous and unprovable nonsense

"Until recently the European descended minority has for more than hundred years tried and succeeded in destroying native population history and languages. "

Secondly, Bolivia is 196 years old, thats not "hundreds of years" and those "European descended minority" have only held power what? 4 times in the past 100 years? and they were the same people who brought universal suffrage to the indigenous so the entire claim that they have magically eradicated languages and cultures is just a flat out lie.

Thirdly, considering the majority of Bolivia's natural resources are on the west, not the east if Media Luna which is made up of multiple low land indigenous are willing to go as far as to claim autonomy from the entire country knowing they will have no natural resources I think that speaks volumes and completely shits on your claims.

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Secondly, Bolivia is 196 years old, thats not "hundreds of years"

Nucleic Acids posted:

Honestly I’m just waiting for Western NGOs to denounce this.

Redczar posted:

Vaccination program is going swimmingly in Paraguay

https://twitter.com/mundoeconflicto/status/1371958504622338049?s=21

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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic will begin constructing a fence along its 376-kilometer (234 mi) border with Haiti later this year to curb unauthorized migration and illicit trade, President Luis Abinader said on Saturday.

“In a period of two years, we want to put an end to the serious problems of illegal immigration, drug trafficking and the movement of stolen vehicles,” Abinader said in a presentation to Congress.

Construction of the border fence, whose cost has not been disclosed, will begin in the second half of 2021, Abinader said.

The barrier will include a double-fence in the “most conflictive” sections, along with motion sensors, facial recognition cameras and infrared systems, he added, speaking on the 177th anniversary of the country’s independence from Haiti.