Fuera la Cueva: Tirando la cortina sobre el golpe destado en Bolivia Outside the Cave: A student speaker series of untold narratives

In Spanish, English translation coming soon.

Today we are going to explore the 2019 coup in Bolivia and explore this event from the context of pluri-nationalism, neoliberalism, and foreign interference and how the media helped the Añez government perpetrate state sponsored violence against opposition, mostly comprising of indigenous communities, in Bolivia. This is not the first time a pro U.S. president of Bolivia has sent state soldiers to oppress indigenous opposition that resulted in military forces perpetrating genocide against indigenous communities. In 2007, former president Sanchez de Lozada formally charged with genocide by the Bolivia’s supreme court for an attack he perpetrated against the Aymara community that resulted in military forces killing 67 men, women and children, and injuring 400 others. Former president Sanchez de Lozada currently resides in the United States that in 2012 former President Obama refused to extradite. Sanchez de Lozada grew up in the United States, was educated in the United States, speaks Gringo Spanish, and is a multi-millionaire mining executive.