Photos of the Bolivian Protests

[Sandpiper]

Hasta la Victoria Siempre!

[stevedeshazer]

1. kick

:kick:

It could happen here.

[0rganism]

7. It has happened here

Unfortunately, Las Transnacionales came out on top:

[stevedeshazer]

8. Yes, but I was just a grade-schooler then.

:) :hi:

[0rganism]

17. So that's why you were spared!

Now I know why you made it through alive. :P

[killbotfactory]

2. WTF?

Do they think that they should be able to pick their own government and make their own decisions or something? Don't they know we own them?

[hippiechick]

3. Marvelous !

:kick:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. J'adore the people of Bolivia!

They give me hope, and inspiration!!:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[bin.dare]

5. it is great to see protest signs not written in english ...

... thanks for posting the photos.

[Kolesar]

6. Bolivia no sera colonia de los Yanquis

I think I know what that says.

[Helga Scow Stern]

9. This provides balance to what was heard on NPR this morning:

the reporter covering it used the derisive term: "the leftists' protestors."

[Sandpiper]

10. "leftist protestors" = Oligarch's codeword for

Popular uprising.


Nice to see "liberal" NPR dutifully spewing pro-establishment propaganda.

[deutsey]

11. Many of these people are indigenous people who want more

participation and representation in their government.

Crazy leftist radicals. :eyes:

[Baaad Puppet]

12. Yeah, NPR is marching to a new drum these days.

Forty years ago, many Americans were willing to go along with suppressing similar movements in Central and South America because Washington was very successful at convincing us that "nationalism" was code for "communism" and we could not tolerate "communist regimes" in the Americas.

What's the battle cry going to be this time? I think it's a given that we're on the verge of quelling the growing Movement toward citizens controlling their own destiny/interests in Bolivia (and maybe Venezuela, too); will we brand Bolivia's "highlands rebels" as cocaine kings who must be stopped? Is it mere coincidence that our already stretched military forces are being scaled back in non-hotspots (perhaps to make them available for fighting "civil wars" in South America)?

I expect Evo Morales to be arrested, assassinated, or otherwise silenced very soon.

[Sandpiper]

14. This is all about the Monroe Doctrine

What's going on in Venezuela and Bolivia is a direct threat to the 2 century old idea that the U.S. is the owner and proprietor of the western hemisphere.

The problem now though is that intervention will be a much tougher sell. The "evil empire" is dead, we can't exactly paint them with the "islamic terrorist" brush either. Not to mention our military is already stretched thin occupying two foreign nations, at a cost of over 1 billion dollars a week.


Maybe all of these conditions will finally be the death knell in the odious Monroe Doctrine. To paraphrase Ben Hur, on the day that happens, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never known.

[Beam Me Up]

13. Bolivia is beautiful!

[Robbien]

15. The airport in La Paz went on strike to join the protest movement !!!

and a reporter from LaPaz said the national unions will call a srike if right wing privatizer Vaca Diez takes the presidency.

Mayors of seven cities said they are opposed to Vaca Diez taking the presidency and will declare it illegitimate.

and NarcoNews says:

Radio Erbol just quoted Bolivian Congressman Evo Morales, who accused Senate President (and presidential wannabe) Hormando Vaca Diez of "having a martial law decree in his hands," to be invoked the moment he becomes president.

and also reports:

President Carlos Mesa is keeping the Bolivian Air Force (that branch that supports Vaca Diez) very busy today... flying beef and chicken supplies into starving La Paz.

[Joanne98]

16. Go Boliva GO!

Bolivians say NO to Globalization, NO to Free Trade, NO to foreign investors, NO to the "Hacienda Owners" NO to WASHINGTON and most of all NO TO THE WITCHES ON WALL STREET!

This is what real freedom looks like!