Active Online Limited Affiliate
PAKISTAN NEWS

 

 

Newsmedianews ads
Easyspace Web Hosting
Software store

    + Larger Font | - Smaller Font
    View all direct news items          Search Direct Input items

Direct news input story index

No current entries to show                                   What’s this?

More from Ireland at www.thetruth.ie

Direct news input items

Bolivia: The Struggle For Democracy Is Not Over       printable version
31 Jan 2020: posted by the editor - Human Rights, International, Bolivia

U.S Peace Council Statement
In early January 2020, the Trump Administration's assassination of a top Iranian general in Baghdad, Iraq brought the US and Iran to the brink of a major war. Understandably, that crisis shoved many other crises to the sidelines.

Accordingly, Bolivia is not now in the headlines. But even at the start of events on November 10, 2019 there was confusion in the headlines about what was happening in Bolivia. Compounding the confusion, some "progressive" and "alternative" media outlets were slow to acknowledge that a coup had begun. The coup regime's racist violence towards Evo Morales" protesting Indigenous supporters was hardly given adequate coverage anywhere. In the US corporate media support for the coup took the form of denying it was happening at all, thereby disorienting the peace movement response.

Evo Morales, in office 2006-2019, was the first Indigenous president of Bolivia, a country with an Indigenous majority. Under the 14 years of rule by his Movement for Socialism party (MAS), Bolivia had the one of the highest economic growth rates in the hemisphere. The country slashed poverty dramatically. Bolivia became a trailblazer for the rights of the Indigenous and poor, aligning itself with the progressive governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.*

Morales was re-elected president on October 20, 2019. Because the US-backed candidate lost, the US government called Morales' election "fraudulent." A US-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) disseminated misleading information on the validity of the election. Thus, the stage was set for the November 10 coup, when Morales was forced to resign under duress by the military.

Key figures behind the coup had allies in Washington. The OAS Secretary General embraced coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho. The coup was endorsed by the right-wing neighboring countries (Chile, Brazil). President Trump "applauded" the Bolivian military despite its well documented systematic violations of human rights. Evo Morales is now in exile in Mexico, and the Indigenous continue to protest in the face of lethal, racist repression. An example of the racism: the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Áñez has smeared Indigenous communities' religious beliefs as "satanic." At this writing, Morales, the MAS, and most of the popular parties and movements have agreed to new elections but efforts are underway by backers of the de facto government to disqualify the MAS from participating in an eventual election.

Several prominent US peace organizations were first out of the gate in condemning the coup. CODEPINK on Nov 19, 2019, challenging the mainstream media narrative, emphasized the coup was indeed a coup. CODEPINK highlighted the need for international monitoring. It demanded that that the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet join CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin in Bolivia.

Veterans for Peace on Nov. 21 stressed US complicity in the coup, and the coup's racist nature.

There has been a limited response from the UN. As early as Nov. 16, 2019 "the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet "urged the authorities to ensure that security forces comply with international norms and standards on the use of force and guarantee the right to life and physical integrity of protesters."

Since then the toll of repression has risen. Recent and reliable accounts state that more than 30 have been killed and 600 injured in protests against the coup government.

What are the demands that the US solidarity and peace movements should raise now?

The best chance of peacefully restoring lawful government and majority rule in Bolivia is the projected May 3, 2020 elections, but at the rate things are going the elections will be rigged. USAID, which financed anti-Morales opposition groups in Bolivia for years, is returning to Bolivia at the invitation of Jeanine Añez's coup government allegedly to "monitor" - in reality to manipulate and corrupt - the forthcoming elections.

The coup is not consolidated, witness the strenuous efforts of the coup government to fix the forthcoming elections.

We call upon all peace and solidarity organizations in the US to:

  • Put Bolivia back on the front burner as a campaigning issue between now and the May 3, 2020 elections.
  • Sign the CODEPINK Petition on Bolivia demanding that the chief of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, visit Bolivia in person. There should be a powerful, institutional UN Office of Human Rights presence on the ground in Bolivia. It will serve as a restraint on the coup government.
  • Demand a Congressional investigation to find out exactly to what extent the US was involved in the coup.
  • Organize full international monitoring of the May 2020 elections by independent experts and groups.
  • Oppose USAID and kindred NGO funding of election manipulation, including purges of Indigenous voter rolls. Voter suppression is already under way and it must be exposed, condemned, and stopped

Demand that police and army violence against Indigenous protestors and the medical professionals who care for them come to a halt. After September 11, 1973, when the Allende government in Chile was overthrown in a US-supported coup, our peace and solidarity movement and its allies launched years of campaigning to restore democracy in Chile and end the bloody rule of Pinochet. We must do no less for Bolivian democracy today.

* Roger D. Harris, 2019 Latin America in Review, Council on Hemispheric Relations.

>Local comment

Name: Remember me
E-mail: (optional)
Captcha

bignewsnetwork.com latest rss headlines

Delhi: NDA CMs, Dy CMs arrive for alliance meeting chaired by PM Modi

New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers from BJP-led NDA states arrive for a high-profile meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Ashoka Hotel in the national capital on Sunday.

Chief Ministers from across India from the 19 NDA-ruled states arrive at the venue, with Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, Maharashtra CM D

"Should be global accountability, alliance against terrorism", says all party delegation member Priyanka Chaturvedi

New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, who is a part of a multi-party delegation to European countries, on Sunday called for global accountability and a global alliance against terrorism while highlighting Pakistan's involvement in terror activities.

Speaking with ANI, Priyanka Chaturvedi said, 'There should be a zero tolerance against terrorism and there should also be global ac

8 killed, 45 injured in heavy storms in Pakistan's Punjab Province

Lahore [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): Pakistan's Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has confirmed that eight people were killed and 45 persons sustained injuries in separate storm-related incidents across Pakistan's Punjab province, Geo News reported.

Mostly, deaths were caused by the collapse of dilapidated buildings and exposure to unsafe structures, the PDMA spokesperson stated in an initial report.

"New normal": Tharoor emphasises Op Sindoor demonstrates India's determination to combat terrorism

New York [US], May 25 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leader of an all-party delegation to the US, on Saturday (local time) emphasised that Operation Sindoor marks a new normal in India's approach to combating terrorism. The operation was a response to Pakistan's continued hostilities and terrorist activities.

Tharoor stated that no one in Pakistan can take India for granted and kill Indians without facing con

"We will impose cost on Pakistan": BJP MP Baijayant Panda in Bahrain

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Baijayant Jay Panda on Saturday said that the 'changed doctrine' of India to deal with terrorism will impose a cost on Pakistan.

He further stated that Pakistan has been fostering terrorism for many decades and discussions were held with Indian diaspora leaders on how India's changed doctrine was going to impose a cost on Pakistan.

'They are,

No longer be blackmailed by Pakistan's nuclear bluff, says all party-delegation member Baijayant Panda

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): As part of India's global outreach regarding Operation Sindoor, BJP MP Baijayant Panda, leading an all-party delegation to Bahrain, said that India has firmly called out Pakistan's 'nuclear bluff' and made it clear that future provocations will be met with strong retaliation.

Addressing prominent personalities during an interaction in Bahrain, Panda said, 'We will no longer be bla

Terror organisations used religion to justify killing of people, Islam condemns terrorism: Owaisi

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi, part of the all-party delegation led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda, said that terrorist groups wrongly use religion to justify killing innocent people. He said that Islam condemns terrorism and the Quran clearly says that killing one innocent person is like killing all of humanity.

During an interaction with the promin

"India sent clear message that it was not going to take terror lying down": Tharoor shares India's response to Pahalgam attack

New York City [US], May 25 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday (local time) highlighted how India responded in a measured and calibrated manner towards terror bases and headquarters in Pakistan, following the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed.

He gave a call for the world to come together to fight unitedly against terrorism.

Delivering the remarks at the Indian Cons

"Want the world to understand that this is not a time for indifference but for mutual strength, solidarity", says Shashi Tharoor

New York City [US], May 25 (ANI): Leader of the all-party delegation, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, gave the message to the world that the Indian delegation has come forth to communicate that we will not be sitting quietly against the forces of evil which attacked India. He gave a call to the global community for standing together with mutual solidarity and strength against the menace of terrorism.

He delivered the

Members of all-party delegation led by Congress MP Tharoor pay tribute at 9/11 Memorial

New York City [US], May 25 (ANI): Members of the all-party delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor paid their respects at the 9/11 memorial after their arrival in the US on Saturday (US local time).

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor paid his respects at the memorial along with MP Ganti Harish Madhur, MP Shashank Mani Tripathi, MP Bhubaneswar Kalita, MP Milind Deora and former Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

<

Talks and terrorism cannot go on at the same time, says all-party delegation leader Baijayant Panda

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): The all-party delegation from India to Bahrain, led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda explained India's measured and calibrated response towards Pakistan's actions and brought to attention how terror emanating from Pakistan has been a threat not only to India but to world peace at large.

Speaking in Bahrain on Saturday, BJP MP Baijayant Panda shared how India has time and again extended an

Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi meets PM Modi in Delhi

New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and discussed on the state's holistic progress with a strong emphasis on accelerating growth in infrastructure, welfare, and employment.

The official statement from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) reads, 'The Chief Minister of Odisha, Mohan Charan Majhi met the Prime Minister, Nar

"Talks and terrorism cannot go at the same time", says all-party delegation leader Baijayant Panda

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): The all-party delegation from India to Bahrain, led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda explained India's measured and calibrated response towards Pakistan's actions and brought to attention how terror emanating from Pakistan has been a threat not only to India but to world peace at large.

Speaking in Bahrain on Saturday, BJP MP Baijayant Panda shared how India has time and again extended an

"Entire Bahrain stands with India", says all-party delegation member Nishikant Dubey

Manama [Bahrain], May 25 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey, who is part of an all-party delegation led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda, said that Bahrain has strongly supported India and condemned the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. He added that from today's meeting with Bahraini MPs, it was clear that Bahrain stands firmly with India.

Speaking to ANI, Nishikant Dubey said, 'The meeting that took

Strength of Team India, as shown in Operation Sindoor, will enable country to achieve Viksit Bharat: PM Modi at NITI Aayog meeting

New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Referring to people's full support for Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the country needs the same approach to achieve 'Viksit Bharat' and the strength of Team India during the operation will also enable the country transform into a developed country.

PM Modi made the remarks at the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog, its Chief Executive O

Powered by RSS 2 HTML

 


news resources
Afghanistan | Africa | Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Angola | Anguilla | Antigua | Argentina | Armenia | Aruba | Asia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Bahamas | Bahrain | Balkans | Bangladesh | Barbados | Belarus | Belgium | Belize | Benin | Bermuda | Bhutan | Bosnia | Bolivia | Botswana | Brazil | Brunei | Bulgaria | Burkina | Burma | Burundi | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Cape Verde | Caribbean | Cayman Islands | Cen African Rep | Chad | Chile | China | Christmas Island | Columbia | Comoros | Congo | Cook Island | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Cyprus | Czech/Slovakia | Denmark | Djibouti | Dominican Republic | Dubai | East Timor | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Estonia | Ethiopia | Europe | Faroe Islands | Fiji | Finland | France | Gabon | Gambia | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Greenland | Grenada | Guadeloupe | Guam | Guatemala | Guinea | Guyana | Haiti | Holland | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Ivory Coast | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kiribati | Korea | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Lietchtenstein | Lithuania | London | Luxembourg | Macau | Macedonia | Madagascar | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Martinique | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mexico | Micronesia | Moldova | Monaco | Mongolia | Montenegro | Montserrat | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Nauru | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Niue | Niger | Nigeria | Northern Ireland | Norway | Oman | Pakistan | Palau | Palestine | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Pitcairn Islands | Poland | Portugal | Qatar | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | Samoa | San Marino | Sao Tomé | Saudi Arabia | Scandinavia | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | Solomon Islands | Somalia | South Africa | South Americas | Spain | Sri Lanka | St Kitts | St Lucia | St Pierre | St Vincent | Sudan | Suriname | Swaziliand | Sweden | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Tibet | Togo | Tonga | Trinidad | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Turks & Caicos | Tuvalu | Uganda | Ukraine | United Kingdom | United States | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Vanuatu | Venezuela | Vietnam | Virgin Islands | Walli & Futuna | Yemen | Zambia | Zimbabwe | World
Human Rights | Science | Journalism | Music | Showbiz | Sport | Technology
Clickable News Globe

Top | Privacy | Forum | Comment XML news feed directory MP3 Sounds | Links | Publicity | Contact
On-line Editing | Publish news | Guestbook | Site Status | Site Map
publish an item from this page to Newsvive.com Seed Newsvine
© Newsmedianews— Sunday, 25 May 2025
on-line now for 10006 days.

Web newsmedianews

See traffic details for this site