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    I know where to invest my stocks now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    Illegally forced change? Who forced it? This ought to be good.
    Too soon to determine that , but time will tell. It certainly wasn't the people or government of Bolivia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Too soon to determine that , but time will tell. It certainly wasn't the people or government of Bolivia.
    I’ll tell you who forced the change.


    The Bolivian people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rationalist View Post
    I know where to invest my stocks now.
    Better to invest in your fracking industry - they need the money more than Bolivia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Better to invest in your fracking industry - they need the money more than Bolivia.
    That's a good investment when oil prices are high. They're not that high at the moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
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    See more at the link https://www.peoplesworld.org/article...ing-companies/

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    Lithium is the key ingredient for the batteries fueling the world’s electric car and smartphone revolution. Market analysts speculate that by the mid-2020s, lithium supply will be straining to keep up with demand from auto and mobile device manufacturers. It’s being called the “gold of the 21st century.” Bolivia’s largely untapped Salar de Uyuni salt flats, located high in the Andes, are estimated to contain between 25 and 45% of the planet’s known reserves. The government of Evo Morales has been working to create a publicly-owned lithium industry to help diversify his country’s economy and raise more of its people out of poverty.

    Efforts to get at the metal by multinational mining companies from the U.S., Canada, South Korea, and others have so far largely faltered. A joint venture with a German company was canceled by the Bolivian government last week over concerns that not enough benefit would go to the indigenous people who live near Uyuni. Chinese and Russian firms have been among the few that have inked deals.

    Given the fate of too many progressive governments in this part of the world over the last century, the next part of the story was unfortunately totally predictable. This weekend, the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup.

    While there are too few details emerging yet to draw any kind of direct line from the interests of the resource giants to the events of the last several days, the military overthrow of the Morales government—to cheers from the Trump administration, the Trudeau government in Canada, and the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States—shows the dangerous stakes for any small resource-rich country which tries to embark on an economic path that favors the poor and working class over the demands of the rich, corporations, and imperialist states.
    Do you really think that corporations could effect regime changes and other factors over something they wanted from someone else's ground? Oh,whoops.

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    Top Bolivian Coup plotters trained by US

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    The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.

    Just prior to Morales’ resignation, the commander of Bolivia’s armed forces Williams Kaliman “suggested” that the president step down. A day earlier, sectors of the country’s police force had rebelled.

    Though Kaliman appears to have feigned loyalty to Morales over the years, his true colors showed as soon as the moment of opportunity arrived. He was not only an actor in the coup, he had his own history in Washington, where he had briefly served as the military attaché of Bolivia’s embassy in the US capital.

    Kaliman sat at the top of a military and police command structure that has been substantially cultivated by the US through WHINSEC, the military training school in Fort Benning, Georgia known in the past as the School of the Americas. Kaliman himself attended a course called “Comando y Estado Mayor” at the SOA in 2003.

    At least six of the key coup plotters are alumni of the infamous School of the Americas, while Kaliman and another figure served in the past as Bolivia’s military and police attachés in Washington.
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    Oh brother. The US is playing no role in Bolivia.

    The school of the americas was a joke.
    Last edited by Tahuyaman; 11-14-2019 at 10:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    Oh brother. The US is playing no role in Bolivia.

    The school of the americas was a joke.
    The School of the Americas was a joke? How so?

    It still exists today but under another name.

    Some its members have indeed gone off to lead coups in their countries, not to mention engaged in torture.

    I'm not sure what kind of joke that is.

    Again, I'm not claiming the US was involved in the recent coup in Bolivia, but they have before and in other countries. Have they not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    The School of the Americas was a joke? How so?

    It still exists today but under another name.

    Some its members have indeed gone off to lead coups in their countries, not to mention engaged in torture.

    I'm not sure what kind of joke that is.

    Again, I'm not claiming the US was involved in the recent coup in Bolivia, but they have before and in other countries. Have they not?
    The School of the Americas was not exactly an intense training course. If some people from a Latin American nation went on to do something bad, it wasn't because of the training they received there. That's like saying the high school Ted Bundy went to trained him to be a serial killer.

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