I always wonder why Milei isn’t hanging from a lamppost. How much time will the Argentinian people endure this imperialist bootlicker?

Simply impressive!

Regarding the motivation of Arce and rightist elements, it usually goes as what we both have seen with the current struggle in Lebanon and other West Asia countries which is to further imperialists interest within the region. In case of Bolivia, this could be easily linked to their resources such as Lithium.

Just to delve deeper on Bolivia’s resources, around 85% of the world’s lithium reserves are located in the so-called “Lithium Triangle,” comprised of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The Lithium is so important that we had Elon saying that “we will coup whoever we want”.

Going back to Bolivia and the current right wing candidates that are running for the second round, both of the top two candidates are pro US and neoliberal. In the worst case scenario, we will get results as Argentina.

There was betrayal from Arce to Evo. This is what I could pick up from the Cuban Telegrams. Let me copy something published by Sacha Llorenti; a Bolivian lawyer, former minister, and former president of the UN Security Council; that shares plenty of valuable context and was recommended in the Cuban Telegrams:

It’s well worth reproducing this analysis of the recent Bolivian elections and everything that happened in that context.

For those who attacked Evo Morales Ayma without even considering all the facts and repeating the pamphlet that the right and the subservient left placed in the headlines of the tabloid press, read and draw your own conclusions

Five Myths About the Crisis of the Left in Bolivia By Sacha Llorenti *

I have read with great attention how many comrades, people I love and respect greatly, simplify the situation of the crisis of the left in Bolivia. I know that these criticisms are from honest people, born of genuine concerns and solidarity with the Bolivian people.

However, a series of common points emerge that deserve an explanation given the unique characteristics of Bolivia, its social organizations, and its left.

1. The fracture of the left is a struggle of personal ambitions.

It is not egos, a lack of generosity, or pettiness that marked the rupture between social organizations and the government of Luis Arce. This is a reductionism that hides a lack of understanding of the meaning of the Political Instrument of the social organizations that came to conquer political power in Bolivia in December 2005.

That instrument is the sum of the largest indigenous and peasant organizations in the country, in a country, it goes without saying, predominantly indigenous.

These organizations are structured into unions, union sub-centrals, provincial centrals, departmental federations, and national confederations. These are the structures that debate and decide the course of the instrument. These are not personal decisions or whims, but organizational decisions that permeate Bolivian territory.

These organizations were systematically attacked by the government of Luis Arce, who, as a result of judicial manipulation, managed to strip them of their party acronym.

Thus, the break with Arce, among many other reasons, stems from his decision to ban the entire movement organized around the Political Instrument, due to its catastrophic economic management and serious allegations of corruption.

Furthermore, these organizations decided that their candidate should be Evo Morales. The mobilizations and protests against the ban were met with repression, an attempt on Evo’s life, and the violent takeover of several union headquarters. As these lines are being written, dozens of Indigenous leaders are still in prison or in hiding.

2. No one sought unity

Although the Luis Arce government used the full repertoire of Lenin Moreno when he banned Rafael Correa, Evo Morales and the social organizations of the Political Instrument proposed several alternatives to prevent the implosion. First, they proposed holding closed internal primaries with the participation of the instrument’s membership, which exceeded one million registered members. Then, after this was rejected, they proposed holding open primaries, Argentine-style. That proposal was also rejected. Finally, Evo Morales proposed conducting Mexican-style polls to designate the candidate, with the commitment to full support for whoever won. That proposal was also rejected because the intention was always the political annulment of Evo Morales and, consequently, of organizational decisions at all costs. Andrónico Rodríguez also rejected the holding of primaries.

3. Andrónico Rodríguez’s candidacy represented the popular bloc .

Andrónico was the young politician who could best represent the interests of the Bolivian popular bloc. An indigenous man, union leader, political scientist, and president of the Senate, he was seen by all as the natural heir to Evo Morales’s political legacy.

However, he committed the crime of political treason by launching his candidacy behind the backs of the social organizations that make up the Political Instrument. It was through a press conference that the Indigenous and peasant leaders learned that Andrónico had made the individual decision to launch his candidacy, without it having been the result of a decision by the structures of those organizations.

It was a personal candidacy that dealt one of the harshest blows to the Political Instrument because it usurped representation that was not conferred upon him, legitimized the proscription of the popular movement, and broke with the logic of collective decision-making. Rodríguez was expelled from his union and his peasant federation. His extremely low percentage in the elections is proof that his candidacy lacked popular support. To make matters worse, his candidate lists included clearly right-wing individuals.

4. The protest vote or null vote is useless

The decision to campaign for the null vote was not an individual or whimsical decision by Evo Morales. It was a collective decision that took time to make and was based on the logic that these elections were illegitimate because they were carried out by banning the country’s largest political movement. Despite the brevity of the campaign, the null vote reached nearly 20 percent of the vote, when the average for all previous elections was close to 3.5 percent. It was a protest vote, a disciplined vote, a vote that demonstrates that social organizations continue to be the soul and essence of the Bolivian left.

5. It is the decline of Evo Morales and the Bolivian left

The election results demonstrate that the Bolivian left is based on indigenous and peasant social organizations, that the undisputed leader continues to be Evo Morales, and that there lies the true opposition to the right-wing parties that will assume political power next November.

Just as happened after the coup d’état, it was these organizations and their leadership that managed to restore democracy. After the series of coups, this time from the Arce government and the rupture of Rodríguez, it will be these organizations that will chart the course that the popular and revolutionary movement in Bolivia must follow.

Final Note on Equidistances

A call to the Latin American left: there can be no equidistance between those who betray and those betrayed, between those who try to destroy our political organizations and those who defend them, between those who outlaw and those who are outlawed, between those who try to murder our comrades and those who are the victims, between those who imprison Indigenous leaders and those who are imprisoned. Our equidistance in the face of injustice is a weapon of our enemies.

As José Martí rightly said: “Men cannot be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns with the same light with which it shines. The sun has spots. The grateful see the light. The ungrateful see the spots.”

Fortunately, this time, we finally have a date which is September 2025(in 2 weeks) so we can track the progress. If this push is finally bringing some change, then we should start seeing some commitment and evidence.

I hope that it just doesn’t stay in mere words and postponement.

That red shirt looks way better than the white one IMO! Gotta check how much it cost for me with shipping included 🤔

Please accept my apologies, I wasn’t attacking you or your post, it was more hope than dismissal on my part, dear friend.

It’s okay! There is nothing to apologize for.

If you need evidence in case this appears in a conversation in your daily life, US Congressman Scott Perry mentions this during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on DOGE.

Some Nigerian media even shared this:

Former foreign affairs minister, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, lent credence to the military chief’s assertions during a February 17 interview on Arise TV.

“I served on the Boko Haram committee, and villagers consistently told us about helicopters flown by foreigners that kept landing in Borno with arms, ammunition, and cash,” he said.

Anyone with a single functional brain synapse knows when the USA says “liberation,” they mean “destabilization.”

Sadly, the rightoids in my country Mexico will actually welcome an invasion from the US and think that we are getting “liberated”. You will even get an ex president lamenting the lack of intervention in the country.

Also, not too long ago, there was a post asking what’s wrong with opposing the cartels so I thought it will be better to leave that clarification just in case is ever needed. If my speculation turns real, my country and other Latam countries as well will face an increasing amount of dehumanizing propaganda in favor of intervention and in favor of ICE actions.

A brief reminder to everyone:

The “drug cartels” are terrorist organizations controlled and in the service of US imperialism. The “war on drugs” is an instrument of imperialist geopolitical power that traps people between the violence of drug trafficking and US military intervention. The drug cartels were created by them just like ISIS and Boko Haram.

The US uses these cartels to further their imperialist agendas in the region and the cartels help the imperialists to distract people from the exploitation that they are doing in the region. If you want to learn more, give this book a read:

Sadly no. Using the excuse of “targetting” the Drug Cartels, the US wants to intervene even more brutally as the past century to loot our resources and displace our indigenous population.

Some important points to consider from this. This is also speculation! If you have more information and other perspectives, feel free to correct this:

• It is not guaranteed that the Lebanese government will reach a consensus regarding Hezbollah’s disarmament. There are still many opponents to this, including obviously Hezbollah and Amal, which make up a significant portion of the government. If a decision is reached to disarm, then Hezbollah and Amal will quit the government.

• If the decision is reached that Hezbollah should be fully disarmed, this will be extremely difficult (almost impossible) to implement, because the party will never voluntarily give up its weapons, and this has been clearly stated.

• If the Lebanese state insists on disarming Hezbollah, and it wants to do so forcefully, then they are officially allying with Israel and every Lebanese soldier unfortunately becomes complicit — and no action will remain off-limits.

• The Lebanese Army is not capable of confronting Hezbollah on the field. The only way they can forcefully disarm Hezbollah is by openly inviting Israeli or American intervention. In that case, a civil war is a real possibility. Hezbollah will not be the one to blame, Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam forced their hand, and the party will do what it must.

• Hezbollah has never directed its weapons at any Lebanese unless directly provoked or existentially threatened. Hezbollah’s weapons have only been a threat to Israel, and in fact, these same weapons guaranteed southern Lebanon’s independence and liberated the Lebanese from the occupier. It was Hezbollah’s weapons that protected Lebanon’s dignity and protected the Lebanese when the government was silent.

Sadly, I couldn’t find much apart from this:

https://radiozapatista.org/?p=51407&lang=en

Just like GaryLeChat said, there are two PCVs. One is a Trotskyst party that aligned with the fascists and the other is a pro gov’t that raised class consciousness while collaborating internationally with other communist parties(China, Vietnam, et al). You can find more information in these two articles and the comments within the posts:

• https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8500313

• https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5309060

As much as i dislike reddit i also have to agree with this. We certainly need to have our own spaces like lemmy, but communists should always also go to where the masses are. Even if it’s hard, even if it’s uncomfortable. This applies both online and offline.

For the Global North, your comments make sense and it is still important to keep a presence in imperialist dominated spaces. However, for the Global South, that strategy is no longer working and the demand for an alternative to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, X, Reddit, et al in the playing field grew radically.

For what I have seen as an example of this, the growth of usage for Telegram from Cuba/Nicaragua/Venezuela was intense due to the constant bans on anti imperialist voices to the point that even Maduro asked people to opt out of Whatsapp to use Telegram and WeChat.

If Cubans with the aid of China and Russia(see the promising initiative of the tech hub) put an alternative out there to the yankee owned social networks, I am confident that people will flock there. From my perspective, comrades from the Global South like me have to push for this change. We need this change urgently so our marxist voices could flourish without any imperialist meddling.

A ton of maoists and ultras too on social media, and very vocal too.

I feel that this is also what imperialists wanted to accomplish by giving voice to people that will actively harm our movements and global solidarity.

They know that a maoist/ultra/trotskist will not change/endanger their bourgeois dominated status quo as much as what a Black Panther/anti imperialist//ML/et al have done because the former are easier to dismiss by the population while stirring the highly class conscious people into inactivity and irrelevancy.

There is a lot that can be done about this. However, strategies change depending if you are in the Global South or the Global North.

If they say they can’t because that leaves them exposed to violence, well then they have answered the question as to why you shouldn’t yourself disarm.

If only compradors could be reasoned with 😔

Sadly, they will only change when they are being targeted directly by the imperialists.

Yeah I missed it! My bad 😵‍💫 Thought for sure that this gusanos finally changed in their word use. Got proven wrong.

Damn, you are right. I read halfway and missed the end of the article where they used those words

😂

The interesting part of this news is that CiberCuba, a known Miami based news network and pro imperialist, have not used the words Regime and/or other words to describe the Cuban or Chinese gov’t.

Very interesting.