♲ @nerthos@shitposter.club: On Bolivia:

Evo had been in power for 14 years, though when he first reached office reelection wasn't allowed. He changed the constitution and the name of the country to change terms from one 6 year term without reelection to up to two consecutive 4 year terms like some other countries in the region. When he ran for his third term he had wide opposition, but dismissed it as "my first term doesn't count, it was a different country then"

The exact situation that caused the current crisis is that, with his third term done, he couldn't run even under the constitution his own party made, so he decided to have a referendum on whether he could run again as an excuse. The referendum turned against him, so he decided to run anyway and have the supreme court (which he appointed) stall any legal action against him and just have congress (which his party had a majority in) figure something out when he was in.

An election was held in which he supposedly won by ten points, but both local firms hired to audit the election and international organizations doing the same declared fraud, so he said they'd have a second election, to which the opposition refused if he ran since he was already one period too many into office. Tensions mounted, the police refused to leave the stations and take part in any conflict with civilians in case Evo wanted to do another election against popular sentiment, and culminated in Evo asking several of his government's hierarchs what he should do, to which most told him to resign, including the head of the armed forces (to which the left would cling to claim it was a coup, presenting it as "the military forced him to step down" but in reality it was Evo who asked in the first place, and the head of the military was appointed by him and part of his own party), so he stepped down.

Following that he and many of his close officials decided to leave the country, and ultimately did so through a Mexican air force plane sent to retrieve him by Obrador, who is ideologically aligned with Evo. The interim government refused to let the plane into Bolivian airspace, but the military stepped in and gave the plane clearance to land. After the plane took off, Perú refused to let them land in their space for refueling, and Bolivia refused to let them back in, so Bolsonaro allowed the plane to enter Brazilian airspace to enter sea airspace through Brazil and fly to mexico from there.

The military further refused to get involved in the conflict, until the new government requested the military take to the streets to prevent clashes between Evo supporters and the police, which Evo's supporters saw as "traitors" that had caused Evo's fall. After that an interim president assumed office following constitutional guidelines, with a big part of congress (those aligned with Evo) missing, but ultimately through legal means, to stabilize the country and organize new elections within a period of three months.

All of this comes after over a decade of growing tensions between sectors of Bolivia over economical and social interests, grey-legality groups and workers unions known for violence that had originally supported Evo recalling their support after policy changes, and racial conflict within the country which Evo encouraged, and led to one of Bolivia's regions, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, demanding independence for the last decade over economical and racial conflict. Further, Evo's "bunker" region has ties to drug production and exports, there are many cases of public funds being mismanaged (for example Evo's party used state funds to make a huge museum to him in his home district, which sees ~300 people in a very good day), and since Evo's constitutional amendments and name change to "plurinational state of Bolivia" the state has been linked to racialist policy. You'll see a flag consisting of rows of coloured squares next to the Bolivian flag in Bolivian state buildings, which represents a racialist movement aimed at furthering the interests of the amerindian majority population, which would be the equivalent of the USA flying a KKK flag next to the stars and stripes in the white house, under the excuse that it "represents the country's racial majority", a deliberate move by Evo's party to fan the flames of racial division in the country and retain support through an "us vs them" rethoric. State employees were forced to wear this symbol next to their national flag in their uniforms, so there's lots of footage of cops removing it from their clothes and leaving only the Bolivian flag after Evo's resignation.