https://vimeo.com/447993698 After three postponed elections, a date is finally set after pressure from protests across the country. Why did Evo step down? How did the conditions for the coup develop? Carlos Orias and Tony Phillips join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast produced in cooperation with Other News. Paul JayHi, I’m Paul Jay and welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast.This episode is produced in collaboration with Other News. Other News is an international pressplatform that disseminates analysis, insights and information about global issues in English,Spanish and Italian. You can find it at other-news.info. Most roads into Bolivia’s major cities are being blockaded by thousands of people protesting thethird postponement of national elections by a far right government installed by a coup againstthe elected leader, Evo Morales. Morales was pressured to resign on November 10th, 2019, and fly to Mexico and is now living inArgentina. Why did Morales leave? What is the current balance of forces as the situation growseven tenser amidst a raging COVID-19 surge? Now joining us to discuss the situation in Bolivia,the general strike and blockade organized by indigenous groups across the country and theNational Workers Federation are, from Bolivia, Carlos Orias. He’s a Bolivian journalist and editorsince 1995. He’s worked at news desks in two main newspapers in his country as foreign newseditor, web editor and multimedia chief editor at, El Deber, I’m sure I’m pronouncing thatincorrectly, in his hometown in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and as chief editor of La Razón, aleading newspaper in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz. And once Carlos joins us, he can correct me onall my butchering of these names. And joining us from Buenos Aires in Argentina is TonyPhillips. He works as a journalist for, Other News in South America. He was a delegate to theConference for the Defense of the Rights of Mother Earth and Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2010,he’s published three books, two on finance, one on climate, and he currently investigatesclimate change, energy and national debt dynamics in South America. Thank you both forjoining us. Carlos OriasThank you, Paul. Tony PhillipsYou’re welcome. Paul JayCarlos, what’s the situation on the streets and highways now? What is happening in terms ofrepression of the protests? Give us a picture of the current situation and then we’ll get into howwe got here. Carlos OriasSure, sure. Paul, thank you. And Hello Tony. Thank you for the interview. It’s really nice to talkto you. This is a difficult time for Bolivia, again. We always used to live at the edge of a cliff andalways pretending to be surprised, to be again at this point. And this is where we are right now,surprised that we are again at this difficult moment.Today, the president of the government, Jeanine Áñez, she has signed a law that has put a dateon the elections. They will be held on October 18th, 2020, that’s the date. This was done underpressure from the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), the people that support the formerPresident Evo Morales, they are out in the highways of the country, blocking circulation fromtown to town since maybe 10 days ago. And this situation and the response by the governmentand other parts of the society has brought us to this point of tensions, again, with thebackground of a lot of economic crisis due to the closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic.So that’s pretty much crisis on top of crisis. And it’s now clear that we have a date for votingagain. And I think aside from the tension, the political tension, and the speech that each side isairing and showing,
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