This is the Tom Hartman Program.

And welcome back.

On the line with us is our old buddy Medea Benjamin,

activist, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange,

author, multiple books are her latest kingdom of the unjust behind the US

Saudi Connection.

Code Pink.org, of course, the website and Global Exchange.

And you can tweet her at Medea Benjamin.

Madia, Benjamin. Welcome back to the program.

Hi, John, thank for having me on.

Yeah, my pleasure.

So you were just in Bolivia and you know we've been hearing these bizarre

stories about what's going on there that Avo Morales, the first indigenous president of, I believe,

any country in this hemisphere was elected years ago

he's been very very progressive and basically the billionaires hate him and

the story that I've been reading is that this was a right-wing coup funded by

the very wealthiest people in Bolivia that evicted him from the country. Is that

what you saw when you were there?

Absolutely. I don't know how it was reported in the mainstream press because I was there, but what you saw was a premeditated attempt to reverse just about all of the games that had been made by the

able morale is 13 years in the presidency that it brought up the economic situation of millions of people

and brought the voice and the power of the indigenous community into not only the presidential palace but

into the National Assembly and all over the country and his time in office was

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