Denuncio ante el mundo y pueblo boliviano que un oficial de la policía anunció públicamente que tiene instrucción de ejecutar una orden de aprehensión ilegal en contra de mi persona; asimismo, grupos violentos asaltaron mi domicilio. Los golpistas destruyen el Estado de Derecho. — Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) November 11, 2019

The United States has been threatening it for months, but now it seems it has finally arrived. The Fascist coup has come. Evo Morales has been forced out of office by Military forces, even after he has tried everything to placate the opposition. Morales has announced that a second round of elections will take place, but even this, exactly what the opposition has been clamering for, the fascists have attacked. They have been attacking for weeks now, ever since Morales was DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED to a 4th term. People claim he is authoritarian due to him even running a 4th term, completely ignoring the ruling of the Bolivian Supreme Court. Morales won outright with a 10% lead, what would be considered an utter landslide in Euro-American elections, yet somehow he is an undemocratic dictator. Trump didn’t win the popular vote in America, Boris Johnson wasn’t even really elected, moreso appointed, as Prime Minister, yet an indigenous man from a South American country with so much more support than those two men will ever know is clearly Authoritarian.

To make matters worse, the Western Media is hailing this as “Victory for Democracy”. Fascists support fascists, I suppose. The houses of MAS officials are being raided, government employees are being arrested by the military and have been paraded out on TV, looting and burning of buildings in cities across Bolivia, yet this must clearly be a victory for democracy. A mayor of a town was tortured by the opposition, but clearly a victory for democracy. The oppositon are march with fascist symbolisms and are threatening the indigenous people of Bolivia with violence, death, and oppression. This is a cut and dry coup by right wing, reactionary forces, yet the media is in denial. Why? Because the media is complicit in imperalism, and we are witnessing the latest phase of Operation Condor in Bolivia.

Muy agradecido con la solidaridad del pueblo, herman@s de Bolivia y el mundo que se comunican con recomendaciones, sugerencias y expresiones de reconocimiento que nos dan aliento, fortaleza y energía. Me emocionaron hasta hacerme llorar. Nunca me abandonaron; nunca los abandonaré — Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) November 11, 2019

To add insult to injury, the western leftists are in total disarry in their responses. I’ve seen some anarchists and trotskyists claim that the coup is outting a corrupt leader, buying into CIA and NED talking points. Some hardline Marxist Leninists have wasted no time criticizing Morales, claiming that this is what happens when you attempt social democracy. This punching left of an indigenous, leftist leader facing a coup RIGHT NOW, is demonstrating the extreme ignorance and Western chauvinism. Criticizing leaders is useful, but criticizing them in moments where they need our full support is playing right into the hands of the imperialists. This is not to say that all anarchists, trotskyists, and MLs are doing this, there are some that are of course standing against western imperialism. But it still stands that there are SOME who are, and even a few is harmful. Criticizing is fine, but NOT in moments of extreme crisis, like an attempted right wing coup, that looks as if, for now, it has succeeded.

One thing to make clear is that this is not over. Morales is an extremely popular figure, there will be thousands who will rally to his defence. In fact, many already are. In the city of El Alto, adjacent to El Paz, thousands of indigenous workers and marching, sending an ultimatium to these fascists: restore democracy to Bolivia, or else they will form armed militas to fight against these reactionaries. It is the police vs. the people, the right vs. the left, the rich vs. the workers, fascism vs. socialism. The battle lines have been drawn, and the future is murky. What isn’t murky, however, is where we need to lay our support. Support for the workers! Support for the indigenous people of Bolivia! Support for the MAS! Support for Morales! Support the Plurinational State of Bolivia in this time of darkness in their fight against US Imperialism!