I’m not suggesting he had anything to do with it (though I wouldn’t rule out the possibility). The question was just what he thinks of it, and I thought his response wasn’t funny in the slightest. The coup in Bolivia is horrible. Not even remotely funny. It’s tone deaf and insensitive at best.
I am not in favor of the US interfering, to whatever extent it may have, but it seems that for Morales to run in the first place was unconstitutional due to term limits. His party tried to overturn the term limits in a referendum, failed, and then presto, the Supreme Court ruled it was a violation of human rights.
So if he has a case for it being a coup, it seems like the opposition has a comparably good case that he was moving towards what people call an "autogolpe" or self-coup.
This is not to say the current government is preferable.
I have not been paying attention to Bolivia recently, like most Americans, so my information is from:
I tend to avoid The Intercept since the whole Reality Winner thing sensitized me to possible Russian connections. Without knowing what the true relationship is, I have written them off as providing a manipulative propaganda line. Of course, sometimes propaganda is written by the best; I was just reading about Eric Blair's wartime efforts for the BBC, and how he tried to avoid damaging his credibility as an anti-imperialist.
I understand the election irregularities in the Bolivia election are controversial, and I don't take a side on whether that was a pretext to get rid of Morales. My point was only that the act of running in the first place was questionable.
That's shorthand for Russian government intelligence; I didn't mean to cast aspersions at the Russian people.
I hesitate to declare it worse than being a CIA front.
But in any case, I think it's better to look for other sources of information and never, ever, trust them with your freedom or life, like Ms. Winner did.
