In the annals of the #resistance and "friends like these"

So here's a reply about the Bolivian coup by some #resistance liberal over at LGM. Not a bad blog, but the amount of people, in the face of a fascist coup that looks ready to kill dark people (the indigenous of that country) and has already started doing so, can only say "well Evo was problematic".
So I get a reply by some one there who does the right things in terms of a presentable set of arguments but has absolutely no references for those claims. 
Again, with friends like these... note that it's most likely that this could be plants. All over the internets I see a concerted effort to present Evo Morales as "problematic". No desire to give us actual references for these. Also there was an effort to say the election was problematic as well or someone "illegitimate" because of "irregularities". Like our elections don't have those.  (only the OAS has made any mention of things being "irregular" and they are far from a reliable source. All reliable sources say this was a legit election. Yet to get this ball rolling some grain of suspicion must be added. And here it is. 
Same goes for claims about the Supreme Court ruling for Morales. Note the "friendly" quote there that scare you off. Absolute jokes, the lot of it, but many people fall for it.


A few things:
1) Morales did not win the election "fair and square." That simply isn't true. The extent to which the election was fraudulent is not yet clear, but there is credible evidence that there were significant irregularities.
2) Morales, of course, lost a popular referendum in 2016 that would have allowed him to run for a fourth term. But then he got the Supreme Court, filled with friendly judges, to rule that not allowing him to run again would violate his human rights under the American Convention on Human Rights. So he chose to stand for election again on this flimsy basis, knowing that 51% of the country opposed this already -- in doing that, he made this kind of dispute inevitable.
3) Morales has been turning away from democracy in many ways in his latter terms. He has knee-capped the very social movements that supported him in his early days. For example, Morales worked to replace all the leadership of the independent indigenous confederation CONAMAQ with people who were friendly to his government (something that the leadership of CONAMAQ at that time called a coup). By weakening these organizations (because if they were too independent, they would threaten his power) he lost allies that he really could have used, say, about now.
I don't say any of that in support of the right-wing coup. But there is no way to understand the current events there without understanding this full context of Morales's actions. And the fact is, while the right-wingers are taking advantage now, a lot of the grassroots mobilization against Morales's fourth term came from diverse sectors (including some indigenous groups) and not only the right-wing.

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