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It's been like a week since the last US-backed Latin American coup.
by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It's been like a week since the last US-backed Latin American coup.
- thanatropism 7y agoYeah, but US-backed != US-hatched. The proximal cause is that Bolivia had fallen into a state of utter chaos (therefore a power vacuum); the proximal cause of that is that the president tried to pull off a Xi Jingping but this didn't play even with much of the population that initially backed him. It's the difference between setting a house on fire to acquire the land, and buying a land lot where a house used to be.
- yourbandsucks 7y agoThat's certainly the official US line on the matter. How has the official US line held up, historically, when it comes to coups vs socialists in Latin America? Why should it be different this time?