@QMS
“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” has got to be one of the most arrogant statements our ruling class has ever made.
If Biden had said it, the media would have called it a "gaff".
Yet, I respect the honesty of it. By honesty, I mean like a thief that tells you to your face, with pride, what he's stolen from you.

BTW, MAS literally couldn't have picked a better opponent to run against. If the socialists didn't win in a landslide then something was seriously wrong.

As [inaudible] Carlos Mesa government, where he took — he was elected as vice president in 2002, together with the widely hated former President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, who fled to Miami in 2003 after trying to privatize the country’s natural gas and after carrying out a series of massacres in the Indigenous city of El Alto. He flees to Miami. Carlos Mesa takes power, 2003.

And 2003 to 2005 is a period of complete paralysis in Bolivia, because Carlos Mesa pledges to not use repression, to not mobilize the military against protesters as his presidential partner did. However, he insists on the plan of privatizing the country’s natural gas and exporting it through the port of Chile. And that, of course, meant that the social movements, some of which led by Evo Morales, continued, continued their general strikes, continued popular uprising, and the country became ungovernable. And the economic crisis became extreme, as I said. The IMF were brought in to — IMF loans had been taken out to pay for the basic costs of the state, not for investment, but to pay public sector salaries — as I said, the basic costs of the state. So, Bolivia was in an incredibly disastrous moment in the two years in which Carlos Mesa ruled, with the backing, I should say, of the United States.

So, people have that in their memories. But people also, you know, lived through, experienced the past 14 years under Evo Morales in which the size of the economy tripled, the incomes of most people tripled at the very least. For those on minimum wage, it skyrocketed even further. Unemployment was the lowest in the region. And Bolivia had the highest rate of GDP growth than any other country in the region.

What's amazing is that Mesa got ANY votes.

coinkadoink as in pigs swallow coinage?
Methinks not so much the relative association
of stolen earth goods to political Wall Street profits
so much as the capitalist marketeers hope to have the
government insure the gravy train.
By whatever means. Watch as the us oligarchy
overturns another regime for national security.
Socialism scares the shit out of the rulers.