Category Archives: All About Evo

Festive Left Friday Blogging: No such thing as too much of a good thing

Whether it’s Evo in a straw hat… …or El Ecuadorable dressed to kill… …there’s just no such thing as too much of either of these guys. Or too many cute pictures of them.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Evo’s anti-imperialist military is now official!

And looking mighty fine, too: And here’s the story behind it all, from Contrainjerencia: President Evo Morales declared the armed forces of Bolivia to be nationalist, socialist and anti-imperialist, during the ceremony for the 188th anniversary of the country’s independence. … Continue reading

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Evo in uniform!

Now here’s a sight you don’t see every day: Evo did his obligatory military service many years ago, like so many other young Bolivian guys. Since then, he’s been strictly a civvies kind of guy. But for the air force, … Continue reading

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: In Cuba, it’s always the 26th

It was 60 years ago today, Fidel Castro taught the band to play… Today is the 60th anniversary of the storming of the Moncada Barracks in Santiago, Cuba. It was led by a young lawyer who was not yet a … Continue reading

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Why Evo?

Further to my post from the other day, it seems that I’m not the only one who’s picked up on the not-so-subtle racism of the European countries who denied Evo’s plane the right to pass through their airspace. Venezuelan TV … Continue reading

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Spanish twits laugh at Evo

This is simply disgusting. They made fun of the kidnapping of Evo Morales at the hands of the Spanish government, one of the colonies of the European Union in the power of the United States. Nothing new in the Spanish … Continue reading

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See the Injun fly the airplane?

In the 2006 documentary Cocalero, which shows how Evo Morales first became president of Bolivia, there’s a scene near the end where he and his campaign manager are boarding a small plane, flying over rugged terrain back to the capital … Continue reading

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Cartoon du jour

Evo gets Kong’d over a guy who isn’t even on his plane.

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They are SO FUCKING PARANOID.

Really. What more can I say when Evo Morales, of all people, has been denied permission to overfly four European countries, just because some nimnul thinks that Edward Snowden might be on board his plane (and he isn’t)? Or when … Continue reading

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More Evo? Yes, please!

From Bolivia, a little good news today: The Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal of Bolivia has declared it constitutional that president Evo Morales and vice-president Alvaro García Linera may stand for re-election in the general elections of 2014. The case was decided … Continue reading

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