The Coup Against the Plurinational
Republic of Bolivia and Its President
Canada Must Stop Being a Tool for Regime Change!
Stand with the People of Bolivia Demanding
Reinstatement of the President They Elected
Events of the past week in Bolivia make crystal
clear that what we have been witnessing is the
culmination of a military coup against President
Evo Morales who was re-elected in the
October 20 general election and the Movement
Toward Socialism (MAS) which he leads that won the
majority of seats in both the Senate and Chamber
of Deputies.
 There is
irrefutable evidence that the events which
transpired over the past week are connected to
U.S. efforts to co-opt and influence military and
police forces in the region through programs it
has in place for this purpose. In addition,
leaked audio tapes have emerged which suggest
certain U.S. politicians and embassy officials
worked with retired Bolivian military officers and
opposition politicians and some others to organize
and finance the kind of violent and destabilizing
actions that have taken place as well as the
creation of a parallel government if Evo won the
election. That such a plan existed is given
credibility by the fact that according to Evo, a
member of his security team told him he had been
offered $50,000 to hand Evo over to his political
enemies.
Showing its bad conscience, the Trudeau
government refuses to acknowledge the obvious. In
its statements, Global Affairs has so far referred
only to President Morales "resigning" and its
readiness to support a "temporary caretaker
administration to prepare for new elections and
avoid a power vacuum." This means Canada is
supporting opposition Senator Jeanine Añez, a
person who, like Juan Guaidó in Venezuela,
unconstitutionally declared herself the interim
president -- in her case backed by the military,
with an army officer assisting her don the
presidential sash at her swearing-in. With the
presidency captured, opposition Añez named her own
cabinet and, belying the notion that hers is only
a caretaker administration until a new election is
held, set about dismantling programs and
arrangements of all types put in place by the
Morales government and generally unleashing a wave
of revenge-taking against its members and
supporters. If the interim "president" has her
way, not just Evo but any candidate of the MAS
will be barred from contesting the new election.
Meanwhile the police and army have been given a
green light to attack and arbitrarily arrest those
resisting the coup -- many of them members
of the country's Indigenous nations. As of
November 16, 23 deaths had been reported across
the country, many caused by bullets.
Rally of rural teachers in La Paz, November 13,
2019, demanding the self-proclaimed coup
government step down.
In the regime change operations mounted against
both Bolivia and Venezuela, Canada has been an
important player, working through the Organization
of American States (OAS) to declare elections
illegitimate or fraudulent that have not produced
the desired results. It then works with coup
forces to illegitimately remove the presidents and
governments elected by the people of those
countries.
In the case of Bolivia's recent election,
separate analyses of the results performed by
different experts do not support the conclusions
allegedly reached by the team that performed the
audit for the OAS. All the studies concluded that
the reported irregularities were not significant
and that removing the suspect number of votes cast
for Evo would not have affected his first round
victory. All of which suggests that the alleged
irregularities reported by the OAS team -- which
it provided no concrete evidence for and never
said amounted to fraud -- was the pretext needed
to call for rejecting the results altogether and
holding a new election, opening the door for the
coup forces to claim Evo was elected through
"fraud" and to make their move against him. In
whose name was Canada acting to help instigate
this?
March from 20 states in Bolivia to the government
headquarters in support of Evo Morales,
November 15, 2019.
Canada has played a similar role in other
U.S.-orchestrated coups or coup attempts in the
hemisphere this century -- including the coups
against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti
in 2004 and President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in
2009. In both cases the leader and governments
targeted for regime change were attempting to
chart their own course for development, giving
priority to meeting the needs of the working
people and most vulnerable rather than embracing
the harsh neo-liberal remedies of the IMF that
have destroyed national economies and brought
misery to so many people around the world. In
those two cases, beyond the role it played in
supporting the coups perpetrated against those
presidents, Canada under both Conservative and
Liberal governments weighed in to prevent the
people's forces from electing their choice of
government by rushing in to support subsequent
electoral coups to ensure the continuation in
power of neo-liberal governments and the
repressive apparatus they do not hesitate to wield
against the people.
The fact that Canada was tapped by the U.S. to
lead the Lima Group, supposedly to "restore
democracy in Venezuela," shows what kind of
democracy, human rights and rule of law Canada
stands for. The Lima Group is a collection of some
of the most corrupt, repressive, undemocratic,
rights-violating governments anywhere -- among
them Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Chile, Peru, all
of them facing crises of legitimacy and widespread
repudiation at home.
The Trudeau government's hypocrisy appears to
have no bounds. It is making endless declarations
on its own behalf and as part of the Lima Group
about the democratic and constitutional order
having been ruptured in Venezuela, warranting
punitive action by the OAS. Not only are the
people of Venezuela standing steadfast against the
attempts to bring about regime change in Venezuela
but Canada's attempts have never been realized for
lack of the required support inside the OAS
itself. Meanwhile, it is willfully blind to the
attack on the constitution and democracy -- as
well as on the lives of the people of Bolivia
demanding the return of their legitimate president
-- by the racist oligarchy now taking their
revenge on the "Indians" they so despise.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
calls on Canadians to unreservedly support the
demand of the Bolivian people for the
reinstatement of their elected president Evo
Morales and to demand that the government of
Canada end its gross interference in the affairs
of Bolivia and Venezuela in violation of the
Charter of the United Nations, international law
and the norms of diplomacy, which no amount of
Liberal hypocrisy about working for free and fair
elections, human rights and a "rules-based order"
can hide.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 27 - November 16, 2019
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Coup Against the Plurinational Republic of
Bolivia and Its President: Canada Must Stop
Being a Tool Regime Change! Stand with the
People of Bolivia Demanding Reinstatement of the
President They Elected
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