Turmoil in Bolivia

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AndeanInfoNet

May 24
#Bolivia's largest union, the COB, and other protesting social movements are letting ambulances, food, vulnerable populations and supplies through blockades. Please take note next time the right, the mainstream press or the government refers to them as "vandals" or other derogatory, racist terms. See translation below👇

https://x.com/AndeanInfoNet/status/2058632157162033518

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Ollie Vargas

Indigenous leaders of La Paz, Bolivia: We don't want dialogue or negotiation with those who have our blood on their hands, we'll be at the barricades until the President is gone.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2060180188483461544

HispanTV

Translated from Spanish
🎥 Women March in Bolivia with Empty Pots Demanding President's Resignation

🔺Nearly a month into protests against President Rodrigo Paz and the handover of resources to transnational oligarchies, women held a march with empty pots.

🎙Sdenka Saavedra, La Paz

https://x.com/Nexo_Latino/status/2060130243906818322

Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

🇧🇴 Bolivia: 28 days of protests demanding the resignation of the comprador president

https://x.com/jacksonhinkle/status/2060089675092549988

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🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 reposted

Desordenado

Translated from Spanish
URGENT!

La Paz, Oruro, Potosí, Cochabamba, and Chuquisaca signed a Pact of Struggle against Rodrigo Paz's government in Caracollo.

They demand his resignation, reject the attempt to impose a state of emergency, and warn of moving the mobilization to La Paz.

They denounce the handover of natural resources, point to the consolidation of a narco-state, and reaffirm permanent mobilization:

“We will not allow any leader to dialogue with this damned government.”
#Bolivia #ResignNow

https://x.com/caos_desorden/status/2060157968419529006

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🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 reposted

CODEPINK

The U.S. has ordered the right-wing regime in Bolivia to violently crush a popular indigenous uprising.

The U.S. Embassy told officials "we can't lose the lithium."

https://x.com/codepink/status/2060124728224886889

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VPol

Protestors in La Paz, Bolivia put a garbage bag over the statue of Christopher Columbus, gave him a mask of US-backed neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz, and wrote "Basura Colonial," or "Colonial Garbage," according to Bolivia-based journalist Joseph Bouchard (
@GeopolWonk
), as the nationwide general strike and mass protests continue in Bolivia.

https://x.com/VocalPolitics1/status/2060364554660397471

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Desordenado

Translated from Spanish
¡Bolivia Alert!
Rodrigo Paz looks utterly exhausted; he's no longer talking about solutions to the crisis. He's talking about states of emergency, about absolving the Armed Forces of responsibilities, and about a supposed “battle of all battles.” He clearly states that it won't matter how many are killed by the army or the police.

When a government stops persuading and starts threatening, it demonstrates its weakness, not its strength.

Bolivia needs dialogue, democracy, and respect for the people's rights, not laws to guarantee impunity or warlike speeches against its own people.

History teaches that no state of emergency resolves a political crisis: it only deepens it.
#Bolivia #RenunciaYa

https://x.com/caos_desorden/status/2062213135843447177

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La Catrina Norteña

Jun 2
Translated from Spanish
🚨 THE BOLIVIAN PEOPLE DO NOT BEND

Who continue their fight against the government handing over their Lithium and Natural Resources to the United States and foreign companies...

https://x.com/catrina_nortena/status...25044200694040

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Rubén Loor #Apolo13

Translated from Spanish
🚨🚨🚨 #BREAKING | This Tuesday night, June 2, a meeting of the High Military Command is taking place. According to reports, the Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces, Gen. Víctor Hugo Valderrama Quezada, would not be willing to take responsibility for intervening in the blockade points, a situation that could lead to him offering his position to President
@Rodrigo_PazP
.

The people are triumphing and the struggle must continue with even greater force until its objectives are achieved.

#BoliviaVencera
#AbajoLosEEUU
#EstadoFallido
#DestacamentoDeRefuerzo

https://x.com/AboDCausaJusta/status/2062018749838864648

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Ollie Vargas

Bolivia's Minister of Defense has resigned from government with no official explanation.

Right now, US State Dept is trying to force Bolivia to declare martial law to break the strikes against neoliberalism. Our allies within military confirmed that cabinet is split on this.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2061981894833778922

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Ollie Vargas

Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism.

The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2062155539413635514

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contra

🇧🇴 🇺🇸 | Civil war-type scenes are emerging from Bolivia.

The government passed a law authorising US-backed President Rodrigo Paz to deploy the military against protesters.

Bolivian police and military forces have launched a joint operation to clear strike blockades in San Julián, Santa Cruz department, as a five-week general strike against neoliberalism continues to grip the country.

The crackdown came with full government backing — multiple ministers arrived for what was intended as a photo opportunity declaring victory over the movement.

Instead, entire communities mobilised, forcing security forces to retreat after more than four hours of sustained resistance on the highway.

The mobilisations, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, have left at least ten people dead, 37 injured, and over a hundred facing prosecution, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

Meanwhile, in El Alto — the indigenous city encircling the capital — daily popular assemblies are being held where communities vote on strike strategy and assess the movement's progress. A new form of grass-roots democracy is taking shape on the streets.

https://x.com/contra_press/status/2063987705415909878

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VPol

Indigenous leader and former Bolivian Senator of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), Simona Quispe, was freed on Friday after being detained by the police in what her family said amounted to an abduction, with no court order presented.

￭ Quispe said upon her release, "I was detained, and now I am leaving; absolutely nothing was found on me. I am innocent of all those things. I won't elaborate much. I will only say this: I was abducted by civilians," likely meaning fascist paramilitaries that work hand-in-hand with the police. "That is all I can say. I am leaving now as an innocent person, with no evidence having been proven against me," she said."

￭ Over 100 blockades across Bolivia have brought its economy to a halt as the nationwide general strike continues.

https://x.com/VocalPolitics1/status/2064052612249350501

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Reuters

Bolivian union leaders called for nationwide blockades to be expanded and demanded the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz as protests and disruptions continued for a seventh straight week

https://x.com/Reuters/status/2067302503922970852

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El Fantasma

Translated from Spanish
🇧🇴✌️🇧🇴👊🇧🇴💪🇧🇴✊🇧🇴🤜🤛
Day 48 of the Bolivian people's struggle 💪 and the demand for puppet Rodrigo Paz to resign grows stronger 💪 the Bolivian people remain steadfast in the fight and unity strengthens 💪 the Zionist-imperialist regime of far-right Rodrigo Paz will hardly be able to hold on.

https://x.com/AlTopeyPunto891/status...00164494782768

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Ollie Vargas

Bolivia's union confederation has forced the government to withdraw all privatization and anti-land reform laws, in exchange for ending the general strike. Agreement signed.

However (big however), most affiliated unions state that they want to maintain strike until govt resigns.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2068162947374027003

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Daniel Mayakovski

Translated from Spanish

In Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz's regime has imposed a state of emergency against the untamable people who remain in the streets demanding his resignation, despite some unions having betrayed them and agreed to lift the blockade.

For more than 50 days, Indigenous workers have been bringing the country to a halt to prevent its privatization and the plundering of their resources, standing their ground in battle until the imperialism's puppet resigns.

https://x.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2068257480828711269

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La Izquierda Diario

Translated from Spanish
Long live the struggle of the people of Bolivia! Down with the state of emergency! TODAY WE MARCH 17:30 FROM THE OBELISK TO THE EMBASSY

https://x.com/izquierdadiario/status...79140097524216

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EllenJAbare
@EllenAbare
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6h
🇧🇴Bolivia Blockaded✊

We have control from the Peru-Chile border, meaning the "Western Strait of Hormutz" is CLOSED‼️

So that the Chicken scoundrel Fake President learns a Lesson‼️


https://x.com/EllenAbare/status/2069014791184679086