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The Red Nation Podcast

The Coup against Bolivia's Indigenous people w/ Maya & Juan

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Maya Ajchura Chipana and Juan Lazaros Mendolas, Indigenous Quechua from Bolivia, offer an Indigenous perspective on the coup in Bolivia and the significance of Evo Morales.

 

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0:00.0

My number is Juan Lass Romendolas and I'm musical.

0:04.0

My name is Juan Lass Romanolas and I'm going to Oh, God, God. Bolivia's former president of nearly 14 years is claiming he was ousted by a coup.

0:44.0

Avo Morales was accused of stealing the country's presidential election on October 20th,

0:52.0

which would have been his fourth term in office.

0:54.6

Weeks of protests against Morales and sued.

0:58.0

So he's saying like the communication and the media in Bolivia is very controlled.

1:08.8

That's what he said.

1:17.0

He said. He said that the people that own these modes of media, that all these modes of media

1:21.0

like the newspapers and the news outlets, they're owned by people that

1:27.8

are very close ties to the right-wing party and people that come from a lot of money.

1:32.8

And so they're the ones that are controlling

1:35.2

like the media and the news that's coming out

1:40.9

and within Bolivia.

1:57.0

So it's biased because they're also, they own these like newspapers and media and they are tied to the right wing opposition party. Okay, so he just said that the support for Evel, from the Campeunos and from those that live in the mountains, it hasn't changed. They still support Evel.

2:11.0

But what has changed is that new generation, the children of many of these

2:17.4

campesinos that move to urban cities that move from you from, you know, like the Neskampo,

2:25.0

the urban cities that have like,

2:27.0

they're, like in their 20s, like fairly young people.

2:30.0

They're the ones that have been easily told and brought to the right side, like

2:37.0

sort of manipulated, you know, like to the, by the right wing opposition.

2:42.0

So the younger generation.

2:47.4

So he said that the native people,

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