Anti-democracy coup in Bolivia

What's happening in Bolivia is clearly not a demand to repeat elections! It's a full-blown coup. The decision of the government leaders to resign doesn't look to have been voluntary, although there are a lot of details not yet known publicly.

Marco Teruggi reports (Se consumó el golpe en Bolivia: renunció Evo Morales Página/12 11.11.2019: my English translation):

El anuncio hecho por Morales era entonces cuestión de tiempo. La ofensiva golpista ya había tomado los principales espacios, y las renuncias de funcionarios se fueron sucediendo, la mayoría bajo amenaza y persecución.

La renuncia de Morales y Linera fue seguida de persecusiones: las autoridades del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, María Eugenia Choque y Antonio Costas, fueron detenidos y esposados por la policía, en un escenario de sucesión de imágenes y noticias mezcladas entre la confusión, la militarización, y la euforia golpista con gritos y evocaciones a la democracia y a Dios.

Luego de los anuncios desde Chapare, renunció la presidenta del Senado, Adriana Salvatierra, quien debía asumir la presidencia. Lo mismo sucedió con quien debía seguir, el primer vicepresidente, abriéndose un escenario de preguntas que serán resultan a medida que tome forma el reordenamiento conducido por la Policía Nacional, la Fuerza Armada, los dirigentes golpistas, los empresarios que financiaron, y quienes respaldaron la invalidación de las elecciones desde el primer momento: el gobierno norteamericano.

En ese contexto se sucedieron las denuncias respecto a la seguridad de Evo Morales, quien denunció que existe una “orden de aprehensión ilegal” en contra suya, y que su domicilio fue asaltado por grupos violentos. La situación de Morales se repite en el caso de varios dirigentes y militantes del proceso de cambio bajo amenaza de persecución.

[The [resignation] announcement made by [President Evo] Morales was therefore a matter of time. The coup offensive had already taken over the main spaces, and the resignations of officials were taking place, most under threat and persecution.

Morales' and Linera's resignations were followed by acts of persecution: the authorities of the Supreme Electoral Court, María Eugenia Choque and Antonio Costas, were arrested and handcuffed by the police, in a succession scenario of images and news mixed into the confusion, militarization, and coup euphoria with cries and evocations of democracy and God.

After the announcements from Chapare, the president of the Senate, Adriana Salvatierra, who was to assume the presidency, resigned. The same was the case with the person next in the succession, the first vice president, raising a series of questions about what will result as reordering takes shape led by the National Police, the Armed Forces, the coup leaders, the businessmen who financed it, and those who supported the invalidation of elections from the outset: the American government.

In this context, complaints regarding the security of Evo Morales, who denounced an "illegal apprehension order" against him, were reported, and that his home was raided by violent groups. Morales' situation is repeated in the case of several leaders and militants of the process of change [i.e., supporter of Morales] under threat of persecution.}

This coup is a wretched development for Latin America.

Mexico has offered Morales asylum. Emir Olivares Alonso, Tras renuncia de Evo, México le ofrece asilo de requerirlo La Journada 10.11.2019: "Following the military coup that led to Morales' resignation and the political crisis in that nation, the administration of [Mexican President] Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered asylum in his embassy in that nation to 20 officials of the Bolivian Executive and Legislative." (My translation)

By the way, there is another government in the Western Hemisphere that is laying the propaganda groundwork for claiming elections were invalid and the results should be resisted by violence if their side loses.

Think I'm exaggerating? Have you been following the news from the US since 2016?