Modern Bolivian History w/ Ollie Vargas

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Ollie Vargas to talk about the recent history of Bolivia. This is an expansive episode that aims to provide historical grounding of Bolivia so that we can better understand current events taking place there!

Ollie Vargas is a Bolivian reporter at Kawsachun News, and has covered Bolvian politics, news, and the recent coup for other outlets such as The Grayzone, teleSUR English, Morning Star, and Mintpress News. You can follow Ollie on twitter @OVargas52. You can find Kawsachun News via twitter @KawsachunNews or on their website kawsachunnews.com. Support Kawsachun News, which provides a ton of vital reporting and analysis of Bolivia and Latin America more broadly by subscribing to their patreon at patreon.com/KawsachunNews.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed!

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Bin-Brew?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:43.9	I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, and unfortunately, I'm only joined by one of my usual co-hosts today.
0:49.1	Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
0:51.0	Hello, Brett. How are you doing today?
0:52.2	Hello, I'm doing great. And unfortunately, we're not joined by our other co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:56.6	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University,
0:59.8	as he's feeling a bit under the weather today.
1:02.7	Adnan, hopefully, well, I'm sure that you'll be feeling much better by the time you hear this recording.
1:10.0	But yeah, sorry to hear that you were feeling a bit down
1:12.7	this morning and we're of course wishing you the best. But today we have a very interesting
1:19.1	conversation that's going to be more modern history than we generally talk about. And it's
1:25.6	going to be the modern history of Bolivia.
1:27.8	And we're going to be joined by Ali Vargas of Kasachan News.
1:32.2	Of course, Bolivia has been in the news, at least alternative media, fairly frequently
1:37.7	recently for some recent events.
1:40.2	And we thought that it might have been important to lay down a little bit of the
1:43.7	historical context,
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