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Didn'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
Thirteen paragraphs down.
WaPo did a glowing feature on Bolivian capitalist growth a couple of weeks ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/socialism-doesnt-work-an-emerging-middle-class-of-bolivians-would-beg-to-differ/2019/10/08/3b1cb3ae-e6f6-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html
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
Telesur actually says: Morales announced a partnership between YPFB (Bolivia'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.
Since June, there have been protests against the deal with ACI systems in Potosi, where the battery factory would be built. https://www.dw.com/en/bolivians-protest-over-lithium-deal-with-german-company/a-50732216
Morales blamed the protests as being stoked by the right wing opposition parties, but then subsequently cancelled the project - this article is from 4th November. https://www.dw.com/en/bolivia-scraps-joint-lithium-project-with-german-company/a-51100873
So this isn't Morales the anti-imperialist standing up to the West and getting overthrown, it'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't mean lithium has nothing to do with this week'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's going on.
Potosi isn't new to protests under Morales. Here'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
Translation of that statement threaded here: https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1193992967956111360
Morales just offered (and accepted) asylum by Mexico. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1194001812413669381
The biggest obstacle to the Bolivian right capitalising on the coup will be the response of Bolivia's working class. This is a good sign, please tag us in to more examples of the response. https://twitter.com/FayeEcklar/status/1194005562888880128
Some translations of pieces written by Bolivian activists. This is by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar from November 8th.
http://zur.org.uy/content/bolivia-la-profunda-convulsi%C3%B3n-que-lleva-al-desastre https://towardfreedom.org/front-page-feature/upheaval-in-bolivia-lurches-towards-disaster/
http://zur.org.uy/content/bolivia-la-profunda-convulsi%C3%B3n-que-lleva-al-desastre https://towardfreedom.org/front-page-feature/upheaval-in-bolivia-lurches-towards-disaster/
From María Galindo founder of long-standing Bolivian anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Creando.
https://towardfreedom.org/front-page-feature/kristallnacht-in-bolivia/
https://www.lavaca.org/portada/bolivia-la-noche-de-los-cristales-rotos-por-maria-galindo
https://towardfreedom.org/front-page-feature/kristallnacht-in-bolivia/
https://www.lavaca.org/portada/bolivia-la-noche-de-los-cristales-rotos-por-maria-galindo
Translation of a short statement by Bolivian writer Oscar Martínez https://twitter.com/brown_condor/status/1194293973092880388
Translation of a text by Ivan Apaza Calle from El Alto https://twitter.com/brown_condor/status/1194567542305706004
We've now posted the translation of Ivan Apaza Calle's text to the site: https://libcom.org/news/they-are-not-evo-supporters-they-are-altenos-dammit-13112019
