Talkin' 'Tina 3 - The 18th Brumaire of Macho Camacho w/ José Lastra Zorrilla (Preview)
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Sean KB and AP Andy
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of the Antifada side project on the politics of Latin America, we discuss the political situation in Bolivia, where last year riots against a supposed voter fraud lead to a coup of far-right evangelicals. Since then, they have massacred protesters, clamped down on free speech, and cancelled election after election. Spanish historian José Lastra Zorrilla uses the method of analysis of Marx's 18 Brumaire describe the origins of the coup, the failures of Morales and MAS, and how the Bolivian campesinos and workers continue to struggle against the new regime, even as the pandemic rages.
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For the original article and other works by Zorrilla: https://libcom.org/library/bolivia-s-18th-brumaire
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| 0:00.0 | During this time, of course, it should also be noted that there's not only this transition to the |
| 0:08.0 | co-car industry, that is basically the transition that happens for the indigenous people but for the rest of society |
| 0:16.0 | there's also a pivoting into, sorry, into hydrocarbon industry and also the agricultural business. |
| 0:26.0 | This is very interesting and very noteworthy because as you have said before |
| 0:32.0 | there's a sort of a coupling of Bolivian and Brazilian capital in many aspects |
| 0:40.5 | but in the first aspect the first sort of economic area that begins to be coupled |
| 0:47.3 | with the Brazilian capital is basically the agro business, the basically the sauya soil plantations that are in Bolivia, which are led by the mostly white |
| 1:01.6 | bourgeoisie from the lowlands. |
| 1:05.0 | And this is one of the things that is most important in this few years of transition to democracy that there is an indigenous bureaucracy that |
| 1:16.7 | begins to take place in the coca trade unions and in some of the remnants of the mining sectors which begin to be incorporated |
| 1:29.0 | into the state apparatus, making already the transition to the era of mass, yes, it's noteworthy, as we said before, that in 2000, in the 2000, 2003, there was another, there were new measures of liberalizing basic goods, which led to very popular |
| 1:52.4 | arrisings. I already talked about the 2003 Gas War. |
| 1:56.2 | There was also the 2000 water war and curiously one of the people involved in this privatization effort was Carlos Mesa, who is now one of the main opposition forces in the run-up for the elections this year. |
| 2:12.0 | This whole situation paved the way for a mass electoral |
| 2:16.3 | victory in 2005, along in a coalition with the Pachakuti Indian Movement, which they took 56% of the boats. |
| 2:27.0 | And this marked a transition to the era of Morales and Massismo, basically. |
| 2:34.0 | And during this time, we're going to see that there's an antagonism between the indigenous world that, as I said, starts to be incorporated into the state sector |
| 2:49.7 | and this agro- business and hydrocarbon bureo is here which are mainly white and yeah that are very |
| 3:00.1 | linked to foreign capitals, like for example Brazil. |
| 3:06.8 | You're talking a lot about these classes of Bolivian people, |
| 3:10.3 | but you haven't even mentioned the United States or imperialist powers once, which might |
| 3:15.3 | be confusing to some listeners because recently Elon Musk bragged about being able to coup whoever |
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