@AaronMk
Didn’t the other side have a million-plus protesters at one point?
EDIT: Never mind, wrong country. Good Lord, how many of these places are falling apart?
The situation has been described as “The Latin Spring”, since South America is mostly lit up and could be argued to be mostly contiguous. Or at the least a protest in Chile can be commented on in Mexico and Ecuador via shared language and twitter. It may not be the most coherent thing however, since people from South America I’ve spoken to about this think it’s still a clusterfuck because you have basically a left-wing anti-settler uprising in Chile, and a right-wing pro-settler uprising in Bolivia. Meanwhile Lula’s out of jail in Brazil and the general discontent with Bolsonaro may stoke a wave of, or a new brand of protest in Brazil.
I’ve also heard and read it said that with the knowledge of the impending doom of climate change and just how much it will impact many million in places like South and Central America, as well as Asia and the Middle East there’s a greater pressure to move faster and swing harder. Already the effects of climate change are being felt across the world and have inspired more wide-spread and deadlier confrontations between the people and their governments. The Syrian Civil War is pretty much at this point understood as an effect of climate change as warmer weather accelerated desertification of Syria’s farm land and pushed people into the cities faster than anyone could anticipate, and stressed Assads’s political foundations to the point that it sparked confrontation.
One angle proposed for Chile and Bolivia is how the global green economy and climate change effects many of the people in the effected countries. Chilean indigenous protesters have famously blocked the roads to and occupied the mines used to extract rare-earth minerals useful in battery technology in the global north over cited anger over losing traditional farm land to the physical space these mines take up, and the pollution they pour into the environment to extract the metals, as well as how little of the economic value these mines extract are ever given to the local communities; intersecting the whole thing with how high the cost of living is in Chile and how poor everyone is.
Like-wise in Bolivia I read a hypothesis today that a major part of the coup there may be attached in some part to Evo cucking America and Germany over its vast lithium deposits, which are also buried under rain-forest in indigenous territory. The Morales program may have seen the area developed with acute attention to the local’s needs which may not of happened in the Germans or the Americans moved in. But this entirely speculation right now because it’s in the early phase, but I’ve heard one story of someone DDOS’ing a coup-stanner on Facebook who claimed to be a Bolivian hiding in Brazil because Evo bad and found the person was really from Langley.
