Washington’s fingerprints are all over the coup in Bolivia.

“Bolivar prophesied shrewdly that the United States seemed fated by Providence to plague America with woes in the name of liberty.”

Eduardo Galeano — Open Veins of Latin America

There exists a striking parallel between the forced resignation of Bolivia’s erstwhile President Evo Morales upon the instruction of country’s military leadership, and the manner in which a section of the Venezulean military briefly overthrew Hugo Chavez in 2000, prior to the poor and the working class of Caracas laying siege to the president’s official residence, the Miraflores Palace, in their tens of thousands to successfully demand his return.

In the second instance it soon came to light that the move to topple Chavez had received the prior sanction of Washington, while at time of writing the role of Washington in the removal of Morales from power in Bolivia is yet to be revealed.

I say ‘yet to be revealed’ because it’s simply impossible to believe that no such green light was sought or given to the Bolivian military leadership prior to it issuing its diktat demanding Morales’ resignation. It comes after three weeks of protests and violent unrest throughout the country. This after the Organization of American States (OAS) reported ‘serious irregularities’ with respect to the result of the…