S8 Ep957: (8) Alejandro Peña Esclusa reports on a "slow-motion coup" attempt in Bolivia led by Evo Morales, whose supporters have placed the capital under siege. This instability is a major concern for Brazil because Bolivia serves as a primary source of the cocain

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

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(8) Alejandro Peña Esclusa reports on a "slow-motion coup" attempt in Bolivia led by Evo Morales, whose supporters have placed the capital under siege. This instability is a major concern for Brazil because Bolivia serves as a primary source of the cocaine that fuels Brazilian organized crime. Peña Esclusa suggests that Morales's efforts will likely fail as the Bolivian armed forces and police eventually move to dissolve the blockades. Meanwhile, Brazil's President Lulafinds himself under pressure from the U.S. and internal factions, limiting his ability to support Morales.
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0:00.0	I'm John Batchel with my colleagues, Alejandro Pena, a member of the opposition traveling in Europe and Venezuela opposition, meaning he's on the side of gangy doodle dandy and vice versa.
0:29.2	And Ernesto Haruio, former foreign minister of Republic of Brazil, also traveling.
0:33.8	There's big turmoil throughout the Americas.
0:40.8	It started with the vote in Venezuela in 24,
0:48.2	and it continues. Bolivia, I'm told from a colleague in Bolivia that the capital is under siege by Evo Morales and his cocoa growers, helped with unions that want more favorable treatment from the central
0:57.1	government. Gentlemen, we just have a few minutes.
1:00.8	Alejandro, I ask you, the Bolivian situation is dire at this moment. It would appear that
1:07.0	Morales is attempting a slow-motion coup. Does this affect Venezuela in any fashion?
1:14.0	Does it help Venezuela to see what a cordial like Maduro and a cordial like Morales means to
1:22.8	people? Does it inform them of what's going on?
1:26.7	In Venezuela, Evo Morales, it has a lot of...
1:31.8	He's not loved in Venezuela.
1:34.4	It's considered a gangster.
1:38.8	Also in Bolivia.
1:40.5	The only reason why this blockades and this protest have not been, let's say, attacked by the
1:47.8	armed forces and by the police is because of the president, Rodrigo Paz. You see, his father,
1:56.8	Victor Paz-Estensoro, the father of Bolivian, the actual believer in president, was a very peaceful man.
2:03.6	And in the past, when he was a kid, Rodrigo, saw that his father tried to deal with his protest in those years peacefully.
2:13.9	So he's trying to do the same.
2:15.5	I don't know if it would work, but I don't think
2:19.1	Evo Morales has a possibility, under the circumstances we've been speaking in this interview,
2:26.0	the situation in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, etc. I don't think he has the possibility to
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