A few days ago, a far-right fascist coup broke out in Bolivia, causing the president Morales to resign. What does this mean to the country?
When the unrest started in Bolivia, my primary news source was the New York Times, and I originally went along with the rationalizations they and most other mainstream news sources were making about why anti-Morales rancor was justified (his 13-year tenure, cult of personality presidency, too much state intervention). But this recent Guardian article by a member of the Brule Sioux tribe that looks at the coup from an indigenous perspective got me thinking more. Bolivia is a majority indigenous country, and Evo Morales was the country's first native president. So this coup is a colonial, ethnic reaction to Morales's more inclusive, indigenous-centered political movement.
But the far-right, Christian fundamentalists who ousted Morales will not last for long at all. I've been seeing the 2020s as a decade when indigenous activism and general social justice movements will combine the world over to create a powerful new force for change. We saw the precursors to this with the Standing Rock protest, which brought together light workers from a diversity of skin tones and national origins under the banner of sacred activism. Bolivia will be caught up in this energetic shift, and I feel that justice there will be restored sooner rather than later. Â
@coyote, Thank you for this beautiful and sensitive answer.Â
@coyote I would like to bump this post up because Evo Morales' party won in a landslide. I see this as a sign that democracy will triumph and the US will follow suit by voting trump out.