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[The Success of Socialism in Bolivia]
As the next Bolivian election approaches, we cannot forget about Bolivian growth and the improvement of life under the Bolivian socialist experience. This thread will detail the experience, dividing it in 4 topics about the Plurinational.
![[The Success of Socialism in Bolivia]As the next Bolivian election approaches, we cannot forget about Bolivian growth and the improvement of life under the Bolivian socialist experience. This thread will detail the experience, dividing it in 4 topics about the Plurinational.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkoBlMWXUAEeTG7.jpg "[The Success of Socialism in Bolivia]As the next Bolivian election approaches, we cannot forget about Bolivian growth and the improvement of life under the Bolivian socialist experience. This thread will detail the experience, dividing it in 4 topics about the Plurinational.")
As the next Bolivian election approaches, we cannot forget about Bolivian growth and the improvement of life under the Bolivian socialist experience. This thread will detail the experience, dividing it in 4 topics about the Plurinational.
How did Bolivia achieve socialism?
It was through violent revolt, through the people's revolution. A fight of the Bolivian socialists and communists, the Bolivian people, fighting against imperialism that lead to the death of 100+ people, fighting for water and gas.
It was through violent revolt, through the people's revolution. A fight of the Bolivian socialists and communists, the Bolivian people, fighting against imperialism that lead to the death of 100+ people, fighting for water and gas.
After the brutal suppression, Evo Morales managed to win the elections, which was an enormous victory. The poor and stagnated Bolivia, now united under one cause and changed itself into a plurinational state - with enormous victories for the natives. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/22/evo-morales-departure-bolivia-indigenous-legacy/
Evo Morales was the first president, after his victory, to have enormous approval from all the working class, specially the minorities in Bolivia, bringing unity and prosperity to the indigenous, who now had voices in the government, jobs, etc.
https://pvangels.com/news-mexico/13172/first-un-world-conference-of-indigenous-peoples
https://pvangels.com/news-mexico/13172/first-un-world-conference-of-indigenous-peoples
Evo Morales's first act was to follow the revolutionary victory of the Bolivian people, nationalizing oil and gas, which was a major economic victory and kicked out the exploitation from imperialist powers from Bolivia. https://www.efe.com/efe/english/business/ypfb-bolivia-s-oil-and-gas-nationalization-generated-31-5-bn-over-a-decade/50000265-2898302
Evo Morales also gave land and bread to his people, with a land reform that rose people out of hunger, giving them their own farms and taking it away from the landlords of the rural areas. The first president to complete it in years.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/1216/Bolivian-land-reform-a-country-strives-to-sustain-an-agrarian-revolution
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/1216/Bolivian-land-reform-a-country-strives-to-sustain-an-agrarian-revolution
The Bolivian socialist experiment was an amazing economic success as well. It brought growth, prosperity and this Bolivarian revolution was the reverse of Venezuela's, it's economy grew by 400% and surpassed every other country. Socialism brought it out of stagnation.
While during the global financial crisis of 2007â08 it maintained some of the world's highest levels of economic growth. Free tractors were also handed out. The prices of gas and many foodstuffs were controlled, and local food producers subsidized. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Leads-Latin-America-in-Economic-Growth-UN-Report-20181226-0013.html
Bolivia's poverty reduction program reduced it by 25% in the first term and in the second term by 43%. This counterpoints the argument that ''Socialism causes poverty'', when it exactly does the reverse, fighting it! Socialism works again in Bolivia.
https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/bolivias-social-programmes-have-considerably-reduced-extreme-poverty
https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/bolivias-social-programmes-have-considerably-reduced-extreme-poverty
Upon Morales's election, Bolivia's illiteracy rate was at 16%, the highest in South America. After his literacy program, that number dropped to 3.12% in 2015. This amazing program is similar to the one in Cuba, that greatly improved education for the poor. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Illiteracy-Rate-Drops-to-Historic-Lows-in-Bolivia-20150617-0007.html
Bolivia also had a healthcare revolution, that improved it in all the nation, with many people who never had access to it, finally getting public access to it, improving the health attendance of all of it's population to a prosperous Bolivia. https://nacla.org/news/2019/12/19/bolivia-plurinational-healthcare-revolution-evo-morales
Sadly, all that growth and improvement was stopped when Evo Morales was attacked by American imperialism and the far-right coup. They faked that the elections were rigged, even if researchers found it on the contrary, forcing MAS out of power. https://theglobepost.com/2020/02/27/mit-no-evidence-of-fraud-bolivia-election/
After that, Jeanine Añez began a brutal far-right dictatorship in the country, killing tens of natives, that 8 number only increased, as more and more people were killed under the US-backed military dictatorship. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780118421/8-killed-in-bolivia-as-protesters-call-for-return-of-ousted-president-evo-morale
The U.S coup Jeanine Ăñez, continues to rule the country despite no possibility of being elected, while she and her party plot how to prevent an election which all polls show will result in victory for the socialist party of toppled President Evo Morales. https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-in-bolivia-continues-to-produce-repression-and-tyranny-while-revealing-how-u-s-media-propaganda-works/
But, now that can change. Luis Arce, MAS candidate, who was the economics minister for Bolivia, CAN BE ELECTED, TODAY! We, socialists of the world, should support him and his efforts to continue the Bolivian revolution. Viva Evo! Viva El Socialismo! https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Leftist-Candidate-Luis-Arce-Goes-to-the-Polls-to-Cast-His-Vote-20201018-0004.html
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Leftist-Candidate-Luis-Arce-Goes-to-the-Polls-to-Cast-His-Vote-20201018-0004.html
