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mofongo wrote

I posted an article (in spanish) about this, here. In short (and english), your friend's perception of Morales' government is correct. The extended political time and his politics, for example despite being indigenous, his government body was predominantly 'white' (techinally mix-raced, the article calls them white-mestizo), did very little for the indigenous people specially those not part of his ethnicity, and appropriated indigenous history and culture, an visible example of this is that MAS' flag is the same flag as the Alpine Community, but with the party's logo on it. At a distance, indigenous people protesting the government using their traditional flag, could be seen as supportive of the government. I heard a story that a several pro-camacho indigenous people waiving this flag were attacked by Camacho supporters thinking they were supporting MAS. It also turned into a racist attack.

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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote

Cool, thanks for this. It's quite striking to me how even the everyday stuff that comes through the site, which is generally supposed to be quite critical, has managed to reproduce this idea that the coup was mostly just about green capitalism's greed for lithium rather than a failure of representational forms of left politics.

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