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 No.490991

BOLIVIA ELECTION THREAD
Menshevick implosion edition

This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.
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 No.490992

STHU UYGHUR
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 No.490995

What's a Menshevik?
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 No.490996

>thread about something real
>first two replies are one doing weird negging and one displaying total cluelessness about /leftypol/ culture and basic history
Why are both this site and .org like this? It honestly seems like an op to shut down any sense of community or constructive discussion.
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 No.490998

>>490996
I suspect that some of it is indeed what you fear. But at other times the issue is that we're getting a lot of half-assed thread OPs lately that seem to presume everyone knows what the fuck the OP is talking about when they don't. How should you expect anon to engage with these? I personally think some great discussions often come out of one-line OPs, but those only happen when everyone already knows the subject. You can't have a discussion when there's nothing to talk about.

Okay, so there's an election in Bolivia? What should we know about it? Is the left likely to make any gains from it? Should we worry about another US backed coup? Any prospects for justice for Evo Morales?
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 No.491004

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/17/americas/evo-morales-bolivia-arrest-threats-intl-hnk
Blocked from Bolivia’s election, ex-leader Morales not sure how to respond to threats of arrest

Bolivia’s charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t know what to do about threats by the right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they came to power.

From his stronghold in Bolivia’s tropics of Chapare, where he has been holed up for months under the protection of die-hard supporters, he repeated his call for voters to deface their ballots in Sunday’s high-stakes elections in defiance of the race from which he is barred due to a contentious constitutional court ruling.

“What are we going to do? Not even I know,” he said in response to questions about how he would respond if either of the right-wing front-runners, multimillionaire businessman Samuel Doria Medina and former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, wins the presidential election and fulfills their threats to arrest him. “I am in the crosshairs of of the right-wing empire.”

Morales, 65, was charged last year with human trafficking and accused of impregnating a 15-year-old girl when he was president.

While he has not outright denied having sexual relations with the underage girl, he has described the charges as politically motivated. A judge issued the arrest order as he and his former finance minister, President Luis Arce, bickered over the control of their long-dominant Movement Toward Socialism Party.

As a result of their bitter power struggle, the party splintered. With the Bolivian economy undergoing its worst crisis in around four decades, the implosion of the MAS party has given the right-wing opposition its best shot at winning at the ballot box since Morales first came to power in 2006.

“Look, it’s an election without legality, without legitimacy …. without the Indigenous movement, without the popular movement,” Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, contended in his interview with the AP at his political organization’s headquarters, where he broadcasts a weekly radio show.

The null-and-void vote, he said, “isn’t just a vote for our political movement.”

“It’s a protest vote, a vote of anger.”

He insulted Doria Medina and Quiroga, who have both run for president three times before, losing at least twice to Morales, as “eternal losers.”

Citing widespread voter disillusionment with the options, he expressed confidence that the election outcome would reveal an unusually high proportion of invalid votes.

“No one is going to win. It will be the spoiled vote, which is Evo’s vote,” he said, speaking in third person.
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 No.491005

>>491004
>Morales, 65, was charged last year with human trafficking and accused of impregnating a 15-year-old girl when he was president.
I don't even remember hearing about this. I heard he was barred and assumed it was just on the same pretext they couped him with. They're using new shit, though! This is like the stuff they made up against Assange or Lula.
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 No.491006

Also funny to think that Evo Morales is still younger than the last two guys to get elected president of the US (in 3 elections).
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 No.491013

How come in these Western articles I'm reading, there's a negative focus on Bolivia's MAS party and Morales but they ignore Jeanine Áñez's rightwing era?
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 No.491025

>>491013
Because the western media hates Evo.

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