These protests blocking the highways are largely being orchestated by the major trade union. That part of the article isn’t wrong.
The short part is: Military tried to coup in 2024. Opposition to the military coup called on unions to strike. They did.
The coup was an internal split of the ruling coalition, so the current president, from the Christian centrist party, managed to win in 2025. He did not include the trade unions or indigenous people of Bolivia in his government and is turning everything over pretty categorically to American/Epstein class interests. (Wealth taxes cut, restored Israel relations/cut off Cuban relations, etc.)
So the disenfranchised unions are striking, which is being written off as little more than insurrection from a defeated party that had a split and an attempted coup in 2024.
You really have to believe and trust the current American government to really critique the protests quite frankly.
The short part is: Military tried to coup in 2024. Opposition to the military coup called on unions to strike. They did.
The coup was an internal split of the ruling coalition, so the current president, from the Christian centrist party, managed to win in 2025.
You forgot to mention that the current president’s major opponent in the 2025 election wasn’t from the ruling coalition either, because the ruling coalition had so thoroughly discredited itself as a credible ruling body that they won two fucking seats in the legislature in 2025. Nice attempt to paint it as just division and squabbling letting dreaded non-Evoists squeak by with a win.
Especially notable is ‘The coup was an internal split’, when both sides of the ruling party opposed the coup. It’s just that Evo Morales saw an attempt to attack his ‘ungrateful’ protege by passing along conspiracy theories that the coup was planned all along, and the resultant infighting was enough to effectively electorally destroy the party Morales once led.
So the disenfranchised unions are striking, which is being written off as little more than insurrection from a defeated party that had a split and an attempted coup in 2024.
“Striking” is when you and a vast collection of aligned political interests blockade food and medical supplies from reaching urban areas with violence, huh?
Well, the United States claims no involvement and the complete capitulation and pivot of policy is just coincidence. But also the US State Department wants to drive wedges into the unions and protests by portraying it as socialist agitation against democracy.
These protests blocking the highways are largely being orchestated by the major trade union. That part of the article isn’t wrong.
The short part is: Military tried to coup in 2024. Opposition to the military coup called on unions to strike. They did.
The coup was an internal split of the ruling coalition, so the current president, from the Christian centrist party, managed to win in 2025. He did not include the trade unions or indigenous people of Bolivia in his government and is turning everything over pretty categorically to American/Epstein class interests. (Wealth taxes cut, restored Israel relations/cut off Cuban relations, etc.)
So the disenfranchised unions are striking, which is being written off as little more than insurrection from a defeated party that had a split and an attempted coup in 2024.
You really have to believe and trust the current American government to really critique the protests quite frankly.
You forgot to mention that the current president’s major opponent in the 2025 election wasn’t from the ruling coalition either, because the ruling coalition had so thoroughly discredited itself as a credible ruling body that they won two fucking seats in the legislature in 2025. Nice attempt to paint it as just division and squabbling letting dreaded non-Evoists squeak by with a win.
Especially notable is ‘The coup was an internal split’, when both sides of the ruling party opposed the coup. It’s just that Evo Morales saw an attempt to attack his ‘ungrateful’ protege by passing along conspiracy theories that the coup was planned all along, and the resultant infighting was enough to effectively electorally destroy the party Morales once led.
“Striking” is when you and a vast collection of aligned political interests blockade food and medical supplies from reaching urban areas with violence, huh?
Thanks. That sounds like a mess. I guess I’m not surprised to learn the US is involved. I hope this works out for them.
Well, the United States claims no involvement and the complete capitulation and pivot of policy is just coincidence. But also the US State Department wants to drive wedges into the unions and protests by portraying it as socialist agitation against democracy.