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Good Neighbors

A domino has fallen in the forest, and it has made a sound:

I’m going to celebrate a rare bit of good news. Bolivia has thrown off the right-wing puppet dictatrix, Jeanine Anez, installed by America and the OAS only last year, in an old-fashioned Cold War coup-d’etat. Remember? Only Sen. Sanders had the guts to call it rightly:

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/letter-to-secretary-pompeo-oas-bolivia?id=FEAA3ED7-56F5-4D37-88EF-49FACBC66B15&download=1&inline=file

https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-only-presidential-candidate-call-bolivia-presidents-ouster-coup-1472847

The election was a great rejection of Mike Pompeo’s tin-pot-tin-hat filibustering. It’s also proof that vicious American fascist plutocrat thugs CAN be defeated at the ballot box:

“It looks as though the margin of victory delivered to [the Movement Toward Socialism party] by the Bolivian people was so stunning, so decisive, that there are few options left for the retrograde forces—in Bolivia, Washington, and Brussels—which tried to destroy the country’s democracy. Anyone who believes in the fundamentals of democracy, regardless of ideology, should be cheering the Bolivians who sacrificed so much to restore their right of self-rule and hoping that the stability and prosperity they enjoyed under Morales expands even further under his first democratically elected successor.”

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, Oct 19, 2020

“In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others—the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of agreements in and with a world of neighbors. We now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but must give as well.”

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st Inaugural Address, March, 1933
“Good Neighbors, Good Neighbors, remember our policy.
Good Neighbors, I’ll help you — if you’ll just help me!”

Comden and Green, “Wonderful Town”

Now all we’ve got to do is stop Pres. Biden sending the CIA back in to “neutralize” Arce’s popular new government.