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& #39;s coup, yet some celebrate today.

Jacobin hailed Evo Morales as the Americas& #39; "greatest president" today, praising his record of poverty elimination.

That overdone headline strongly contrasts Jacobin& #39;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">https://nacla.org/news/2019...

In the days after last year& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s coup. https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1316139527422070792">https://twitter.com/RodericDa...

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.