BOLIVIA AND US TOO?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Is Bolivia's recent coup another example of right wing billionaires supporting right wing populists to the exclusion of popular leaders closer to the people like Evo Morales? Policy analyst Guillaume Long checks in with Thom on the details- what is really going on in Bolivia?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:16.0 | Tom Hartman here with you and on the line with us is Giam Long. |
| 0:20.0 | Giam is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador in the government of |
| 0:26.7 | Raphael Correa. He's now a policy analyst with the Center for Economic Policy and |
| 0:31.6 | research. CEPR.net is there. with the Center for Economic Policy and Research. |
| 0:32.8 | CEPR. net is their website. |
| 0:36.0 | Giam, welcome to the program. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, thank you very much for having me on. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:41.0 | What is going on in Bolivia? Where did this start? I thought |
| 0:44.7 | Morales was very popular among the people of Bolivia. You know I heard that he was |
| 0:49.4 | trying to run for president again when the Constitution didn't allow that he was trying to |
| 0:52.9 | change that but I really don't know much beyond that and and now I'm also |
| 0:56.6 | reading pieces about this shadowy group of right-wing fundamentalist Christian |
| 1:01.0 | billionaires who are trying to force him out. |
| 1:03.0 | What's going on there? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, I think what's happened in Bolivia has to be called by its name. |
| 1:08.0 | We've just had a coup. |
| 1:09.0 | And you're right to say that he, Morales, is a popular figure amongst religions even after 13 and a half years of rule. |
| 1:17.4 | He's still in the last election was the person, the candidate who came in first place. We can talk about that in a minute. |
| 1:24.1 | There's been some talk about whether there was irregularities in the elections. |
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