Didn& #39;t resign due to the protests though did he, resigned due to the actual military coup being carried out today, after announcing a repeat election. https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1193635223470301187">https://twitter.com/BBCBreaki...
Thirteen paragraphs down.
6k RTs and over 10,000 RTs, but this is completely inaccurate and not even what the Telesur article says. Why does no-one read through? https://twitter.com/PompeiiDog/status/1193681839371759616">https://twitter.com/PompeiiDo...
Telesur actually says: Morales announced a partnership between YPFB (Bolivia& #39;s state energy company, fully nationalised for ages) and German firm ACI Systems GmbH to produce lithium batteries in Bolivia. This was in June. Industrialisation of the resource, not nationalisation.
So this isn& #39;t Morales the anti-imperialist standing up to the West and getting overthrown, it& #39;s Morales happy to accelerate extractive capitalism in a public-private partnership with German capital and blaming protests against this on right-wingers.
That doesn& #39;t mean lithium has nothing to do with this week& #39;s events - various countries were angling for a raw lithium deal, which is how the Germans won this contract because they allowed for on-site manufacture, but we should try to actually understand what& #39;s going on.
Potosi isn& #39;t new to protests under Morales. Here& #39;s a Graun article mostly concerned about the inconvenience to tourists caused by a mass miners strike and blockade there in 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/11/potosi-protest-tourists-trapped-bolivia">https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Translation of that statement threaded here: https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1193992967956111360">https://twitter.com/libcomorg...
Morales just offered (and accepted) asylum by Mexico. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1194001812413669381">https://twitter.com/AP/status...
The biggest obstacle to the Bolivian right capitalising on the coup will be the response of Bolivia& #39;s working class. This is a good sign, please tag us in to more examples of the response. https://twitter.com/FayeEcklar/status/1194005562888880128">https://twitter.com/FayeEckla...
Translation of a short statement by Bolivian writer Oscar Martínez https://twitter.com/brown_condor/status/1194293973092880388">https://twitter.com/brown_con...
Translation of a text by Ivan Apaza Calle from El Alto https://twitter.com/brown_condor/status/1194567542305706004">https://twitter.com/brown_con...
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