Biden Bungles Bolivia

[Disir]

...In the United States, fortunately, some Republican leaders rejected the move, and the police attempted to maintain order against the attacks of violent, organized right-wing groups, frustrating the coup. But in Bolivia, like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other paramilitary-style groups, armed right-wing gangs also went into action to intimidate Indigenous people and Morales’s supporters, working in tandem with the military while the police stepped aside. The coup succeeded.

In both countries, fake news and social media fueled the flames. In Bolivia, this included U.S. actors like a company called CLS Strategies, hired after the elections to propagate fake Facebook posts in defense of the de facto regime. Remarkably, a senior advisor of CLS Strategies at that time, Mark Feierstein, would go on to work as principal advisor to Samantha Powers, the current head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) until April 2022.

Among other actors in the Biden administration who seem to be apologists for the coup, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted about “concerns” after Áñez’s detention, demanding that she and other former regime officials be released. He also suggested—with no irony—that the Bolivian government was acting anti-democratically. Despite ongoing suggestions that Añez did not have due process, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, in response to a petition from Áñez herself, ruled last October that her rights were being protected.

In March 2022, the U.S. Congress approved a new spending bill that included language calling on the State Department to assess the experts’ reports on both the 2019 election fraud claims and the human rights abuses committed under the coup regime. The Biden administration appears to be dragging its feet. Statements and actions by officials in Washington seem to be going in the opposite direction, even with the report deadline less than a month away.

Biden Bungles Bolivia

While the Biden administration struggles to impugn Trump for his attempted coup, its approach to Bolivia is undermining that country’s efforts to bring their own coup perpetrators to justice.

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This is an interesting point of view.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Interesting conclusion:

"The United States now risks further alienating what little support it might have regained after the departure of Trump and appears to be set on confirming what many Bolivians already think: the United States is struggling to hold on to what little imperialist power it has left and is worthy of nothing more than outright resistance."

Imperialist power in... Bolivia? When? Where else? This is not the correct word. Influence is not, itself, equivalent to "Imperialist power". Making and enforcing all the rules is "Imperialist power".

But you hear this about the US a lot. We are the best example of a modern country that was barely Imperialistic from the start and is no more.

Read foreign news... read just about anything not produced in the US or Europe. We are looked at as the "Imperials" .

Even the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan: Not imperialism. No intention to make them the 51st and 52d states, or even territories.

These foreign governments have been doing a fine propaganda job on their people for 50 years.

I read about Russian citizens just about 15 years ago who relied on a lake that quickly drained itself dry via a sinkhole. They believed the Americans had done it, somehow.

I saw similar video of a Pakistani talking about a nearby meteor strike, widely reported on the news. He said he knows it was an American missile, and that Pakistan shot it down.