Podcast: Oliver Vargas on US Election Meddling In Bolivia and the Country’s Indigenous Uprising

Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas discusses Bolivia’s post-coup election crisis, US support for the country’s right-wing minority, the indigenous uprising and more. 

Mnar Adley
Whitney Webb
By Mnar Adley
And Whitney Webb
Oliver Vargas Bolivia Feature photo

Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. One such voice is independent Bolivian-British journalist Oliver Vargas. He

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Months After Supporting a Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia’s Elections Were Clean

Democracy in Bolivia did not die in darkness, it died to the applause of the Washington Post.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Bolivia Elections Feature photo

The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showing that there was no fraud in the October elections in Bolivia after all. The Post had for months claimed that President Evo Morales won the election fraudulently, thus justifying the U.S.-backed coup that ousted him weeks later.

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The Old Puppets Return: Meet Bolivia’s Corrupt Washington-Backed Candidates

Bolivian journalist Oliver Vargas takes an in-depth look at the right-wing candidates running to secure the longevity of the U.S.-backed coup in Bolivia.

Oliver Vargas
By Oliver Vargas
Bolivia elections feature photo

Elections are looming in Bolivia. Despite closing ranks to force out Evo Morales’ left-indigenous government, the different factions of Bolivia’s pro-coup right have fallen out with each other less than three months into their rule. The crisis boiled over on January 26, when Jeanine Anez, the self-declared ‘interim’ president, declared that she

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Meet the Candidates Taking on Bolivia’s US-Backed Right Wing Government

Bolivian journalist Oliver Vargas takes an in-depth look at the candidates taking on the interim right-wing government of Jeanine Anez in Bolivia’s upcoming elections and the many challenges they face.

Oliver Vargas
By Oliver Vargas
Bolivia Elections Feature photo

Bolivia’s presidential elections are scheduled to take place on May 3, 2020. The elections will be organized by the ‘transitional’ government of Jeanine Anez who seized power in a U.S.-backed military coup on November 10, 2019. The coup forced out the democratically elected leftist-indigenous government of Evo Morales, who presided over an economic

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Bolivia: As Elections Near, US-Backed Interim Gov’t Mobilizes Military, Arrests Opposition Leaders

Interim President of Bolivia Jeanine Añez has ordered troops to the streets and forced opposition candidates to organize abroad for fear of arrest ahead of the country’s first elections since a US-backed coup last November.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Bolivia Elections Feature photo

Wednesday, January 22 marks the day that Jeanine Añez is set to stand down as “interim” President of Bolivia, beginning the process for fresh elections set for May 3. Añez came to power in November, following a U.S.-backed coup that deposed the Movement to Socialism’s (MAS) Evo Morales. However, she is certainly not acting as if she intends to

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Bolivia’s New Right-Wing Government Intensifies Crackdown on Journalists, Doctors

The US-backed administration of Jeanine Añez is arresting prominent members of the press and even doctors in what it calls a “dismantling of the propaganda apparatus of the dictatorial regime of Evo Morales.”

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Mirtha Sanjinez Bolivia

The U.S.-backed right-wing coup government of Jeanine Añez continues its moves against media and other dissenting voices. The latest victim of the crackdown was Marcelo Hurtado, president of the ATB media network. Hurtado was paraded before cameras; handcuffed and forced to wear a vest labeled “arrested.” He was flanked by two black clad, masked

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