LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s new right-wing government said Tuesday that it restored diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest sign of the dramatic geopolitical realignment underway in the South American country that was once among the most vocal critics of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo met his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar in Washington and signed a declaration agreeing to revive bilateral ties, which Bolivia’s previous left-wing government severed two years ago over Israel’s devastating campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
Aramayo, as well as Bolivian Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, launched this week into a whirlwind of meetings with American officials as their government works to warm long-chilly relations with the United States and unravel nearly two decades of hard-line, anti-Western policies under the Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS
When protests over Morales’ disputed 2019 reelection prompted him to resign under pressure from the military, a right-wing interim government took over and restored full diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Israel as it sought to undo many of Morales’ popular policies.
But 2020 elections brought the MAS party back to power with the presidency of Luis Arce, who in 2023 once again cut ties with Israel in protest over its military actions in Gaza.
i doubt that there’s anything that can stand up money, oligarchy, and a captured voting system now-a-days
Proper party building, democratic centralism, and a strong adherence to theory and a connection to the working classes.
all things we popularly eschew and trivially easily mitigated; hence the loss of bolivia to the imperialists… again.
Yep, it’s deeply tragic.
it’s more than tragic, it goes to prove that it only takes a momentary lapse of collectivist vigilance or a single mistake to reverse all momentum that these movements have earned; it has to be absolutely perfect, meanwhile the opposing side has well placed zealots who will never stop trying and a never ending supply of paid actors.
this is also why i believe that the us empire will endure considerably longer than most m/l people think it will last despite its undeniable signs of collapse.
It’s definitely going to last longer than any of us want or hope for. The problem is that morality doesn’t make any difference on the unfolding of historical progression and as such true justice is unfortunately rare.