Bolivia on the verge of revolution?

[Agathon]

A comment from a BBC viewer (American)

I am a mining company executive returning to the US from Bolivia. While my project was in the hinterlands and not in La Paz, our office is headquartered in La Paz and the situation there is getting steadily worse according to my associates. This whole mess started when the US asked Bolivia to quit growing Coca which they did. When Bolivia asked for help for alternative incomes for the coca growers Bush said no and here we are. This would never have happened if the US had helped develop another sustainable employment for them. Another failure of American diplomacy.

Is the coca thing true?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Agathon
A comment from a BBC viewer (American)

I am a mining company executive returning to the US from Bolivia. While my project was in the hinterlands and not in La Paz, our office is headquartered in La Paz and the situation there is getting steadily worse according to my associates. This whole mess started when the US asked Bolivia to quit growing Coca which they did. When Bolivia asked for help for alternative incomes for the coca growers Bush said no and here we are. This would never have happened if the US had helped develop another sustainable employment for them. Another failure of American diplomacy.

Is the coca thing true?

Very likely. This presents a great danger to the revolution, since Bush will likely use it as an excuse to invade.

[Agathon]

Y'know if all the whitey educated people say they'll leave, I reckon the rest of Bolivia should call them on it.

Uncle Fidel has lots of well educated people who he'll lend them for a bit of gas.

[chequita guevara]

That assumes Bolivia can export it's gas. If it's blockaded by its neighbors . . . Also, I don't know how many gas experts Cuba has, not being a major source of it. Angola, perhaps, and Venezuela.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
That assumes Bolivia can export it's gas. If it's blockaded by its neighbors . . .

You think the poor people in those countries would stand for that?

[Agathon]

Apparently Diez went to the military with a plan to violently suppress the protesters and the military told him to **** off.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Agathon

You spoke of the Indians as if they constituted the majority in Santa Cruz, and you ridiculed the idea the business elite were the majority. Unless those are the only groups in SC, the obvious fact that a business elite won't be the majority doesn't support the notion that the Indians are the majority.

The beauty miss's claim about people being white in her part of the country rather suggests the indigenous element is smaller than in the highlands

It's not clear that this is true.[/q]
What is not clear to be true?
[q] I guess you can draw a line somewhere in Bolivia, but it would be a patently dishonest exercise.

And the government is so aware of the people's love for it that it has moved 700km away from La Paz to meet in Sucre in order to install someone almost no Bolivians want as leader.

That just might relate to the fact that Sucre is the official capital?


I'll have to admit that the commies glee is rather amusing ...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Agathon
You think the poor people in those countries would stand for that?

It depends. The poor don't seem to have a lot of power in Chile or Paraguay, and aren't terribly organized in Argentina, despite their militancy. The revolution in Peru has been defeated for now, and Brazil is no good just for geographical reasons.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
That just might relate to the fact that Sucre is the official capital?

Sucre is one of two capitals, much like The Hauge and Amsterdamn in the Netherlands.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

That just might relate to the fact that Sucre is the official capital?

I'll have to admit that the commies glee is rather amusing ...

They ran away, because the protesters shut down La Paz. Now they've shut down the airport at Sucre.

Aren't you gleeful when a group of unrepresentative swill like the Bolivian establishment get their comeuppance.

In other hilarious news, the US blamed all this on Chavez, citing Evo Morales' (whose MAS isn't even with the protesters) admiration for Chavez and desire to get help from him.

I guess this means that Bush is in league with North Korea, because the North Koreans have asked for aid on occasion.

[chequita guevara]

The MAS better get with the protesters fast, but like most Mensheviks, they will side with capital when push comes to shove.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

It depends. The poor don't seem to have a lot of power in Chile or Paraguay, and aren't terribly organized in Argentina, despite their militancy. The revolution in Peru has been defeated for now, and Brazil is no good just for geographical reasons.

They have the same power everywhere, if they get irritated enough. Reading about Bolivia makes it clear that the people are not just annoyed, they're severely pissed at the government.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Sucre is one of two capitals, much like The Hauge and Amsterdamn in the Netherlands.

The Dutch seem to insist that Amsterdam (is your extra 'n' supposed to be funny?) is the capital wheras The Hague is merely the seat of gov't. The rest of Europe is mystified.


It seems DÃez has just about everyone against him. Both Mesa and the Catholic church has called for him to decline the presidency.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

It seems DÃez has just about everyone against him. Both Mesa and the Catholic church has called for him to decline the presidency.

That's because he's a major league ******* who wants to use the military to violently suppress the protesters.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
(is your extra 'n' supposed to be funny?)

it was unintentional, though now that I think about it, it is funny.