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General strike against neoliberal government: This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment, union members in each community take turns at the barricades. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The short part is: Military tried to coup in 2024. Opposition to the military coup called on unions to strike. They did.

The coup was an internal split of the ruling coalition, so the current president, from the Christian centrist party, managed to win in 2025.

You forgot to mention that the current president's major opponent in the 2025 election wasn't from the ruling coalition either, because the ruling coalition had so thoroughly discredited itself as a credible ruling body that they won two fucking seats in the legislature in 2025. Nice attempt to paint it as just division and squabbling letting dreaded non-Evoists squeak by with a win.

Especially notable is 'The coup was an internal split', when both sides of the ruling party opposed the coup. It's just that Evo Morales saw an attempt to attack his 'ungrateful' protege by passing along conspiracy theories that the coup was planned all along, and the resultant infighting was enough to effectively electorally destroy the party Morales once led.

So the disenfranchised unions are striking, which is being written off as little more than insurrection from a defeated party that had a split and an attempted coup in 2024.

"Striking" is when you and a vast collection of aligned political interests blockade food and medical supplies from reaching urban areas with violence, huh?