By Jolly Green

On
October 20, 2019, general elections took place in Bolivia.

The
incumbent, pro-Venezuela and pro-Cuba Evo Morales, was a candidate
after ignoring a national referendum that voted not to allow him to
run for a third term or be indefinitely re-elected.

Morales resorted to the government-controlled Constitutional Courts to annul the will of the referendum and ran for a third term. The argument was that Morales’ first term took place under a different constitution [during Morales’ first term, a new constitution was approved by a constituting assembly]. Therefore, it was claimed that Morales’ first term didn’t count as such. Of course, this was all a matter of nonsense applied to enable Morales to stay in power.

As the
votes were counted, it looked like Morales didn't have enough votes
to prevent a runoff, and because of this, he proceeded to shut down
the counting. The morning after, Morales was declared the winner with
no need for a runoff.

It was
pretty clear that the vote had been rigged. During the initial count,
it was apparent that Evo Moralis had lost the election. Then the
official election body called for a 24-hour halt in the vote count.
When the count resumed, it showed a massive shift in favor of
Moralis. The election body was heavily criticized after the
unexplained 24-hour halt in the vote count on October 20. The
stoppage fed accusations of fraud and prompted an audit of the vote
by the Organization of American States [OAS]. That generated mass
protests that denounced the elections as fraudulent.

The OAS
audit showed fraud and declared that Morales should resign. The
majority of the people rose up and demanded Moralis should give the
Presidency to the opposition leader, but Moralis demanded a new
election. The Police and army were ordered by Moralis to quell the
uprising by the people. The Police and the military refused to fire
on or attack the people demonstrating, and many Police and armed
forces members joined the peoples' demonstrations.

What
happened from there? The people became more violent and started
destroying government property and that of the President's political
party colleagues and family homes. Commander-in-Chief of the
Bolivarian Armed Forces William Kaliman requested the resignation of
the President to re-establish order in the country.

The
Bolivian Workers' Organization (COB), the largest trade union in the
country, and an ally of Morales also requested the resignation of
Morales.

This has
been [conveniently] grossly misinterpreted by certain people inside
and outside of Bolivia.

The
Worlds political left is enraged and seething; all those leaders are
describing the event as "a coup d'etat." Among those
enraged are all the ALBA membership leaders, particularly Cuban
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and Ralph E Gonsalves prime
minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Other international
21st Century Socialist, Moralis supporters, such as the British
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Great Britain, Alberto Fernandez
in Argentina, former Brazilian president Lula Da Silva, and even the
extreme left-wing Minnesota U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar in the United States,
called it "a coup d'etat."

Commander-in-Chief
Kaliman called on the Bolivian population to abstain from acts of
violence.

On
November 12 2019, Morales ran, left the country on a private jet, and
arrived in Mexico where he was granted political asylum. He never
took any of his legislative colleagues who were abandoned to the
wrath of the people. It was a matter of saving his own hide. At the
time of his winging it to Mexico, Morales had been in power for 14
years.

Despite
the left-wing claims, this was not a coup; it was a popular uprising
of the people who, in general, wanted to reinstall democracy to the
country.

In 2016,
Morales created the Anti-Imperialist Command School. He also
facilitated the ALBA military school, which opened for business in
2011, 50 miles north from a small town called Santa Cruz. Iran funded
and manned the defense academy in Bolivia; in doing so, Tehran
deepened its ties with its Latin ally and the whole of the ALBA
membership.

Hezbollah
and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) at the
invitation of Moralis under the supervision of the Cubans established
a presence in Bolivia, training "soldiers of the revolution"
in both Bolivian and Venezuelan camps, and designed, built and manned
the ALBA Military Academy, the military training camp in Bolivia. The
school's primary purpose is to ideologically indoctrinate soldiers
and Police [in Marxism and communism] and strengthen the bonds
between the armed forces and the new Latin American revolutions. The
ALBA membership was able to send their Police and military to the
Academy for training [even some politicians have benefited].

Peter
Binose wrote an article published by I Witness News in 2012

https://www.iwnsvg.com/2012/06/27/alba-under-threat-in-bolivia-opinion/

The
Iranians have also been mining uranium in the country. Venezuela and
Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program,
according to a secret Israeli government report obtained by The
Associated Press.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/world/middleeast/26israel.html

Like
most of these South American communist leaders, they come to power
with good intentions, but once they become soaked in the immense
power and taste the source of untold personal wealth, they change and
want to stay in office forever. The same thing happened in Venezuela,
but because the country's wealth is in the hands of the military, the
same kind of uprising will not happen without the people being
slaughtered by the military [under Cuban supervision of course].

The
‘Anti-imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against
Neoliberalism’ took place in Havana from November 1 to 3, 2019,
organized by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
(ICAP), Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions (CTC), along with
the Cuban Chapter of Social Movements and the Continental Conference
for Democracy and against Neoliberalism. Among the topics was the
crisis in Bolivia.

In his
intervention in Panel No. 2 of the event, St Vincents PM, Ralph
Gonsalves blamed the USA for all the ailments that 21st Century
Socialism has in the Americas and the Caribbean. He said, "The
growing hostility against Cuba and other countries in the region, the
judicial persecution of progressive leaders, the imposition of
recycled neoliberalism, are distinctive features of the current North
American policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean that awaken
the fighting capacity of Latin American and Caribbean peoples."
This appeared to be war talk against the U.S. on the part of
Gonsalves. Let's hope not, because little Saint Vincent [the rotten
apple] has been appointed a place on the U.N. Security Council
Committee from January 2020. But what is relatively sure is that
Gonsalves is still very anti-U.S., and wastes no time in condemning
them at every opportunity.

Prime
Minister Ralph Gonsalves once more swore allegiance to Cuba when he
expressed his profound solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, the
Government, and the Cuban people in the face of threats to their
independence, their sovereignty, and their legitimate right to do
whatever they wish in pursuit of their development.

Venezuela's
President by fraud, Nicholas Maduro, spoke about Bolivia saying, "Evo
Morales is going to resist and triumph over the fascist threat of the
Bolivian Right. The deadline of the opposition was not set just
against Evo but the Bolivian people."

Then
Following President Maduro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel spoke
using more anti-US diatribe. He described the discourse of Trump "as
aggressive and dismissive of all those who do not share his approach.
The decisions that he makes affect millions on Twitter with the most
abhorrent behavior. He talks about socialism without the slightest
idea of ​​what it means. And orders the end of any process or
political program that intends to overcome prevailing injustice, as
if he held the course of history in his hands."

There
were delegates there from the U.S., who were they?

Peter Binose, another chink in the wall.

Stop Press: The Cubans have 750 medical personnel [doctors and nurses] in Bolivia, they have been agitating in the villages and towns to encourage the people to protest on behalf of Moralis. They have been asked to leave.

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