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No no no no.
There was a referendum, and Evo lost it. Yet, he still went around the Constitution to run, cheated during the elections, and the results were called into questions, rightfully.
Look, the hardest part of having power is letting go of it in a way that won't jeopardize your legacy. Evo failed to do that. I agree with Rusty when he says that he should have groomed a successor and introduced him to the public. Ensuring a clean electoral transition would have done more to cement a democracy that would respect indigenous rights than playing leftist dictator. That's what they've been doing in Senegal, and it is the only country in West Africa that has known Democratic transitions (since their independence) in an area where civil wars and violent overthrows are normal political transitions. The leadership in countries such as Bolivia also have agency and I find it too easy to fall in the trap of blaming the West for some of those governments' own ****ups.
What happened in Bolivia is like a police shooting of an unarmed black man.
Innocent black people getting slaughtered in the street and in their homes, and you compare that to a corrupt politician being denied becoming a de facto dictator by other corrupt parties.
Mendes help set these events into motion with his indefensible actions, the only thing innocent black people contribute to setting the events of their slaughtered into motion is being black.
Famb you really lost in the socialist sauce.
Miss us with this ****.
They are not the ******* same. You say reaching for hyperbole to argue your pointMetaphorically, yes it is the same. Using the military to remove a civilian government is an extreme action. Shooting an unarmed civilian is an extreme act.
When a black kid is shot, we hear the same chorus, “he shoplifted,” “he got suspended from school,” “he was no angel.” Basically you have to be the perfect victim. When a black kid gets shot it’s always okay because he wasn’t the perfect victim.
In Latin America, having a civilian government removed by military force is never a coup because there was some domestic political opposition and/or a law of some sort got broken.
Just as shooting someone to death is far more harmful than the harm caused by shoplifting, having the military completely overthrow a civilian government is far worse than a successful and generally popular president serving an extra term.
they really feeling that popeyes pressure