#evomorales

Here are photos of some friends and comrades who live in the Donetsk People's Republic. 

Some of them grew up in Donetsk. Some were forced into exile by the U.S.-supported neo-Nazi/right-wing oligarch takeover of Ukraine in 2014. 

Living in wartime conditions, under an intense economic and political blockade, they have done what they can to support our struggles here, as they did in June 2020 after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. You can read their moving statement here: https://tinyurl.com/58njw4hc

They stand with Cuba and Venezuela. They protested the coup against Evo in Bolivia. They worked to defend the reproductive rights of women in Poland and Texas.

Understand that these progressives are some of those Joe Biden and the New York Times call a Russian "false flag." They are living through the bombings, terrorist attacks and threat of invasion by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and fascist battalions that seek to ethnically and politically "cleanse" the multinational Donbass region. 

Some are being evacuated. Some are staying to fight. Some can't leave because their parents and grandparents, workers, are too sick to be evacuated.

They gave us their solidarity. It is long past time that we returned it.

U.S.-NATO-UKRAINE: HANDS OFF DONBASS!

The last few days have been very frustrating for the Bolivian people. Our political situation has been incorrectly labeled as a military coup. For anyone that has actually been here in the country, it has been an emotional roller coaster. I have witnessed how millions of people amassed peacefully on a daily basis all around the country for one singular purpose. To get Evo Morales to resign. These marches, protests, and blockades were not exclusively lead by oligarchs or the bourgeoisie. It was a task that everyone of all races and classes took upon their hands to remove a president that claimed to be for the people. Since his resignation, people that claim to be his followers have been breaking into homes, vandalizing businesses, burning houses and public transport buses; all of which is raising fear among Bolivians.

There is such a diversity of people in Bolivia that to claim that all indigenous people want the same thing is preposterous. Multiple ethnic groups from regions including Potosi, Santa Cruz, and La Paz have denounced support for Evo Morales as he threatened to use their resources and land for purposes that did not align with their needs. These include building of highways through indigenous land, hydroelectric dams that would flood vast Amazonian regions, burning vast areas of the Amazon for coca plantations and cattle industry, and outsourcing mineral deposits to multinationals.

While the players that take part in these endeavors are not your typical western capitalist countries, they are still funded by large economies that don’t hold the best interest for the people of Bolivia. China in particular has been allowed to buy the role and responsibility of many of our infrastructural development projects. So before you assume you know whats going on in Bolivia, I urge all of you to please take into account the context of the situation. While liberal and socialist rhetoric has been rightfully applied in other scenarios, it doesn't necessarily apply here.

(Raquel Almérida) El actor estadounidense Morgan Freeman, entrevistó este sábado en Bolivia al presidente Evo Morales sobre su vida política, según informó el propio mandatario, quien le obsequió un libro sobre la centenaria demanda marítima de su país a Chile.

Freeman, de 79 años y que llegó esta semana al departamento de Santa Cruz, en los llanos de Bolivia para filmar un documental de National Geographic, conversó con Morales, de origen aymara, durante cerca de una hora.

“Yo resumiría en 3 aspectos la entrevista: la vida de Evo, las luchas de los movimientos sociales y la gestión de presidente”, afirmó el mandatario, quien comenzó su gobierno en 2006, con un

discurso izquierdista

y anticapitalista y acercó su país a naciones como Cuba e Irán.

El gobernante acotó que fue “una linda entrevista” y que “seguramente será un gran documental de este norteamericano”. Reconoció que le sorprendió el pedido de Morgan Freeman para un reportaje.

Morales aprovechó el encuentro para regalar al ganador del premio Óscar en 2005 por Million Dollar Baby, un ejemplar del texto oficial “El Libro del Mar”, que recoge la historia de Bolivia en su reclamo a Chile por una salida al mar.