George Pearkes: uh, coup in Bolivia? *BOLIVIA TV SHOWS VEHICLE DESTROYING DOOR OF PRESIDENTIAL PALACE Earlier from their President: *BOLIVIA'S ARCE: IRREGULAR MOBILIZATION OF SOME ARMY UNITS

uh, coup in Bolivia? *BOLIVIA TV SHOWS VEHICLE DESTROYING DOOR OF PRESIDENTIAL PALACE Earlier from their President: *BOLIVIA'S ARCE: IRREGULAR MOBILIZATION OF SOME ARMY UNITS

From their Foreign Ministry, never a good sign *BOLIVIA CALLS ON INTL' COMMUNITY TO HELP DEFEND DEMOCRACY

Update: coup not going as planned *CITIZENS TAKE OVER MAIN PLAZA IN BOLIVIA'S LA PAZ: WITNESS *FORMER BOLIVIA GENERAL WHO LED UPRISING HAS LEFT PLAZA: UNITEL

*BOLIVIA'S EX-ARMY GENERAL ZUNIGA ARRESTED AFTER COUP ATTEMPT

Intl' community is like "I know, right?"

Seeing some conflicting reporting about this image Confrontation between president and general. General ordered to demobilize and refused, but didn't seize Presidency. x.com/Canal_Bolivi...

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It's not officially a coup until men in uniforms and berets address a camera.

until then it's a sparkling insurrection

maybe they simply misplaced the keys to the presidential palace

whomst among us

x.com/Marco_Terugg...

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oh fuck! bolivia is getting couped!

And in Egypt, it's not a coup until Obama, Trump, Biden, or the 2028 President or one of her successors says it is, even when that does happen. (US law banned military aid to countries with coups, but Obama didn't want to stop, even though Gen Al-Sisi overthrow elected Muslim Brotherhood guy Morsi.)

overthrEw. Sigh.

They say if it is a cybertruck?

It’s obviously not if it was able to destroy the door.

Could’ve caught fire, burned it down I suppose

It's easy to confuse given how Cybertrucks look like narcotanks.

Poorly rendered by a turn of the century graphics card narcotanks.

Never a dull moment in global hijinks

What I don't understand is why there is a record number of refugees from South American and Caribbean.

Climate change

And decades of bad policy WRT to our southern neighbors.

Definitely that. But climate change is determining the destabilization timeline

Sorry, Bolivian politics is a yearslong obsession of mine so I get real chatty when coups are attempted

head of the military apparently just publicly announced that the military aimed to restore democracy, via Telesur English live www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxyS...

#Live | President of Bolivia Luis Arce denounces coup attemptwww.youtube.com Luis Arce Catacora, Bolivian head of state, demand respect for the democratic institutions in their country. Military forces under the command of General Juan Zuñiga have violently entered the Presidency headquarters in the city of La Paz. #Bolivia #News #PlazaMurillo #LatinAmerica #MAS #LuisArce #EvoMorales

I'm certainly not a Bolivia expert. I've just been hearing about multiple disturbing political developments in northern SA lately. Milei, Ecuador, El Salvador, ... the political assassinations in Mexico. And of course there's Haiti. I probably should not conflate them.

I am entirely ignorant about SA politics so by all means chat away

Oh jeez

One helluva football loss to the American squad?

New copa america rule, it was in the fine print.

www.twitch.tv/erboldigital looks like it's streaming live

Twitchwww.twitch.tv Twitch is the world

They have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Q... speaking now

Jorge Quiroga - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bolivian president warns army after soldiers seen in capitalwww.bbc.com Unverified videos showed armoured vehicles and soldiers in the centre of the capital La Paz.

One of my favorite Wikipedia-isms.

What the heck

Looking rather ominous but as history reminds us nearly anything is possible in La Paz

Arce slapped

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