"No You Guys, THIS US-Backed Coup Is Perfectly Legitimate!"
“No You Guys, THIS US-Backed Coup Is Perfectly Legitimate!"
Caitlin Johnstone Thursday, 14 November 2019, 4:40 pm
Article: Caitlin Johnstone
I just keep tripping on how dumb this latest US-backed military coup is. It's in Bolivia in case you've lost track, which would be perfectly reasonable since US-backed coups have become kind of like US mass shootings--there's so many of them they're starting to blend into each other.
I mean, for starters the justifications for this one are so cartoonishly reachy and desperate it boggles the mind a bit. The main argument you'll see in favor of the coup is that Evo Morales was elected after Bolivia's high court ruled that he could run for a fourth term, but the (democratically elected) court ruled against a 2016 referendum on presidential term limits.
That's it. That weird, pedantic appeal to a particular interpretation of bureaucratic technicalities is the whole entire argument in support of a literal military coup backed by the United States.
And make no mistake, that's exactly what this was: the military ousting a government is precisely the thing that a coup is. The coup's Christian fascist leader Luis Fernando Camacho openly tweeted that the military was actively pursuing Morales' arrest prior to the ousted leader's escape to Mexico, a tweet he later deleted presumably because the admission makes it much harder to call this military coup anything other than the thing that it is.
More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1911/S00107/no-you-guys-this-us-backed-coup-is-perfectly-legitimate.htm