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the Bolivian people rise up and say 'No' as the US just tried to kidnap former president Evo Morales. (thespectaclemag.substack.com)
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A few days ago, a document surfaced online. It was a leaked police memo outlining a joint operation between the Bolivian police and the United States military to capture former president Evo Morales and, according to multiple reports, massacre the villagers who stood in their way. The response from the Bolivian people was immediate and defiant. Indigenous rural communities surrounded Morales’ residence to protect him. Workers seized Chimoré airport near his home, blocking the runway to prevent American planes or helicopters from landing. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a people fighting for their lives and the Western media is barely whispering about it.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11672063

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[–] 40 points 5 months ago (1 child)

That’s really inspiring

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    • [+] 22 points 5 months ago (12 children)
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  • [–] [S] 22 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    It's really frustrating to watch how people keep talking about how you just have to vote harder, when we can see a concrete example of how workers actually take power in Bolivia.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    The mass delusion makes me feel like I'm in a zombie movie. Like I've explained it, countless times through history we've fought this battle. It always goes the same way. Yet they still think they can vote their way out of this.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It's willful blindness.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Agreed. They don't want the treats to stop flowing; it's an addiction at this point. So many people around me aren't even willing to boycott, which I view as the barest minimum involvement at this point. Anything that threatens their comforts is summarily dismissed out of hand. For a lot of people, that level of consumption is not going to be sustainable as prices rise without a simultaneous increase in wages. We'll see what happens if gas prices hit $10 per gallon; I'm expecting the price to start skyrocketing as the supply chain catches up to the shortage.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You can't even get the biggest Lemmy instance users to question Zionazi moderator narratives and motivations.

    https://imgshare.cc/m300imcs

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The thing about denial is that it eventually comes crashing down. Cognitive dissonance takes a lot of energy to maintain, even if it's unconscious. The libs on the big instances are in a precarious place because they're not grounded in reality; even if they ignore what we've told them now, they won't be able to do so forever.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Well, they denied Nazis working in multiple governments in high levels the world over for almost a century. I hope you are right.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I choose to believe that we are not some special few, gifted with secret knowledge or special ability but instead the canaries in the coalmine, just the first of many who are perhaps most sensitive to the disinformation environment we are in. Eventually what we know to be true will become undeniable.

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    • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Amazing read, and I am indeed shocked that I have seen nothing about it in the news.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    The west tries to hush up actual popular resistance while magnifying color revolutions. That's a good litmus test to see that yes, this is genuine popular resistance.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    I've only heard whispers on lemmy and Reddit. This is the first journalism I've seen. I love Bolivia and I've always wanted to go. The salt flats alone are something everyone should see. Now I can't show my American face there :( those poor people.

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    • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Jfc that was a hard read. Those people are an inspiration.

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    For anyone who is in possession of a machine gun, that country feels they have the right to kidnap you.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    https://imgshare.cc/m300imcs

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is imperialist bullshit, what's going on is a leftist uprising against the right-wing government and the US Empire supporting it.

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Is this real? Why have I not seen videos?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Yeah wtf this would be world news ( just another on the pile of Trump’s terribleness but at least as bad as other recent events)

    Edit: there is definitely a ton of chaos there now, protests against the new president as their economy sucks and made use by the Iran war spiking fuel prices: Banks close branches in tense Bolivia, diplomats call for calm - https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-close-branches-tense-bolivia-diplomats-call-calm-2026-05-19/

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    News like USA getting our asses handed to us by Iran? Like how many aircraft were lost? Perhaps news like how we couped various states? News like how US sanctions starved Cuba and DPRK? Palestinian Genocide? The kind of news bought and paid for MSM never reports until people who live there or outside read actual news from local papers and keep posting videos, photos, articles (until states kill all the reporters like Israel does on behalf of the United States)?

    That kind of world news?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, that kind of news. I can’t tell if your tone is directed at me for wondering for more details or at the world?

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Funnily enough, I work an extremely physically punishing job, I posted the same Western link when I had a chance to see your slow-federating post. But if you read on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, you find all sorts of news articles from credible sites that aren't in bed to carry the Western narrative. El País, mronline, Middle East Eye, and multiple others.

    Yes those are sites pieFED, Nazi.world, feds.it.works, Midwest.social censor. The news articles are solid, analyses detailed, annotated, and cogent, coherent, and verifiable.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It appears that Evo Morales used an invented USA threat to motivate his supporters. All video "evidence" is of his supporters doing stuff as prevention of that invented threat, not in reaction to an actual USA kidnapping attempt.

    There is an actual Bolivian threat for Eva Morales though: Bolivian courts had first ordered his arrest in 2024 because of a rape case, but Morales holed up in a regional stronghold to avoid appearing before court. Recently the Bolivian government has been making new moves to make an actual arrest, which Morales appears to want to thwart by rallying his supporters again.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 5 months ago

    I don't see where it "appears" Morales "invented" anything. The USA kidnapped Maduro and invented charges against him.

    It's interesting how you automatically assume the United States narrative, it's not like the United States ever lied and made up allegations to coup or foment coups in the global East or South, or Mideast, amirite? Oh wait... 🙄

    https://media.kbin.earth/e9/b7/e9b707c4f6c80ad86da694d0adb35d8b9c1fc81ca43b2b82a6effc1da8ff90af.jpg

    https://madeupmind.org/blog/false-consensus-effect

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-emotional-footprint/202108/cognitive-dissonance-true-lies-and-false-truths

    And finally,

    https://www.bolde.com/14-things-that-seriously-trigger-fake-people/

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    [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    https://imgshare.cc/m300imcs

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