Over the years, a class of US academics & NGO types deployed woke language, eco-anarchist themes, and faux-expert condescension to legitimize the imperialist campaign against Evo Morales and MAS. They helped suppress left opposition to last year's coup, yet some celebrate today.

Jacobin hailed Evo Morales as the Americas' "greatest president" today, praising his record of poverty elimination.

That overdone headline strongly contrasts Jacobin's past coverage of Morales, which portrayed him as a failure & conservative who had betrayed the socialist cause.

. @NACLA has been a base for sneering academic condescension toward Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia.

Days after the coup, it ran this Q&A attacking Evo for correctly declaring victory & blamed him for "creating" far-right putschist Luis Camacho. https://nacla.org/news/2019/11/13/bolivia-path-camacho-interview-morales

In the days after last year's coup, @intercepted played host to familiar academic criticism of Evo and deployed the "extractivism" critique favored by Western-backed NGOs like Rios De Pie, which helped set the stage for the coup.

As Bolivia's far-right Interior Minister Murillo incited against our @codepink delegation this week, touching off a wave of death threats, this US anthropolo-snitch begged the authorities to take action against us. He has also justified last year's coup. https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1316139527422070792

The past year has shown how the Western academics who heaped criticism on Evo as he fled for his life had no actual program beyond self-advancement & virtue signaling. Anez-Murillo demonstrated to Bolivians what the real alternative to MAS was, and they repudiated it last night.