Zuniga was inspired by Prigozhin's coup attempt. First, fail to storm the capital, second, pretend you were actually loyal the whole time to the current leader.
As a Bolivian i really look forward to seeing your analysis of this whole situation, great to see people talking about our country, love your content man.
@@Kanadabalsam of course, forgive me for asking you in that manner. Socialism has become like a tradition in that part of the world, and it throws people into poverty, and the poorest people become the more they vote socialism. It's like the definition of madness.
@@legatobluesummers3211people view socialism in rose tinted glasses until the working/middle class gets the short end of the stick. This is why we shouldn't give people the soap box; preaching it just because they like how it sounds on paper.
America took a socialist coup led by a Geriatric, a cackling mad woman and a coalition of know psychopaths. They not only took over the entire country in little under 5 years, they did so without a hint of subterfuge or tact. Not only this! We don't know why! They are not a socialist movement nor a nationalist movement they are a chaos movement that merely takes on the most destructive ideals. No sane person believes any of their ideology and yet we are in year three of a counter attack and mind you? Mind you? No shots fired so the entire nation ignores the fact that WE ARE UNDER A GODDAM ILLEGITAMATE GOVERNMENT which achieved its power by how? POLITICAL COUP. No, america takes this one and you're not shifting the award under my watch. Just wait, I suspect the other shoe to drop when Trump gets elected just to really grind it home to people that hero worship is mindless and counter productive.
Just a little correction. Bolivia didn't officially lost territory to Brazil. What happened was that a group of rouge Brazilians conquered a territory without Brazilian goverment permission. When called to settle the situation Brazil tried to argue it's citizens out of there, but ultimately they had to compensate Bolivia by giving in exchange another piece of land plus some money
A bit more complex than that The territory of Acre was basically empty, but was also rich in rubber trees, an expensive commodity at the time. It was then settled by people from the state of Amazonas in Brazil, sponsored by the state, in hopes that it would eventually just be majority in the region and just drift into Brazilian sovereignty and be incorporated in the state. The Brazilian government didn't know and wasn't informed, as it'd like be against the plan because it'd trigger tensions with Bolivia. As the Brazilian settlers became majority, which wasn't hard, they declared independence and applied to Brazilian statehood, but got rejected cause it'd trigger a with Bolivia. In time, it was settled that the territory would be ceded to Brazil with some concessions, like taking over some debts from Bolivia and the construction of a railroad. Bolivia accepted because since Brazilians were majority in the territory, it'd never regain of it control anyways. In the end, the railroad costed thousands of lives to build and by the time it was completed it was functionally useless, as synthetic rubber crashed the demand for the expensive natural rubber.
@@LucasSchimmel Brazil itself did not have that much territory to start with, but they send out settlers to the east anyways, just like the US in its infancy, the idea was occupy territory and declare to itself, Portugal had that straight up down line as a limit, but the land between current Bolivia and Brazil is all deep jungle forest, very hard to maintain, so the ones with most settlers wins, and Bolivian province was too worried with their own deals on the east at the time to keep protecting and cleaning house, on the west, of the new Brazilian invaded land. Until today those are crazy parts of South America, you enter pretty much no mans land, and is up to the local authorities to define their own rules.
@@AFlawBitter 7:36 check the great helmets with a german helmet behind him to the left. Edit: The other helmet is not a german wwi helmet, I was mistaken.
Steven 29 minutes into a 50 minute video: "This is where our story really begins." I love you man and the background was really interesting and important, but that was too funny
@@Ayem427no but there was a serious drop in the number of coups across the 90s, 00s, and 2010s compared to decades previously and the 2020s have been like non stop coups and attempted coups a levels we haven't really seen since cold wars and world wars were the norm. Not coups but the west isn't much better with countries like the UK barely even bothering with elections so much as just resigning in disgrace before you can get fired, the US having a famous riot people called a coup, and Russia nearly suffer a coup from one of their main coup exporters Wagner
Re: Lithium, there are a lot of new economic deposits found in the US very recently. There's one on par with what's in Bolivia found near the Nevada-Oregon Border, and I've seen reports of other places in the US having non trivial deposits as well.
Totally understand. History builds on itself. This is why sometimes as a history teacher, it can be hard to determine a good starting point for people.
As a native Cambodian, I can only summarize that time period as human skulls, blood and a little bit more skulls. And I’m starting to think pol pot is a Khrone worshiper before 40k even existed.
You did a pretty good job. There's a couple of minor errors here and here, but I get it, my country is REALLY hard to understand, especially looking from the outside, and sources are scarce and often contradictory, so you get a pass. I especially appreciate the explanation of the current compound crisis. I'm recomending your video to my fellow Bolivians!
@@historyofeverythingpodcastcould I ask a favour (that others have suggested as well) Please lower your mike so people like me whose hearing is not great can see your mouth?
Bolivia in the 1980's: We have civilian democracy! We are stable and we just need to fix our debt! Good thing we have a stable export! Tin Crash of 1985: Hello there, we would like to introduce ourselves.
It's crazy how often countries see Dutch Disease and think "well, I better not hurt this one thing i can sell by diversifying. If it's valuable today and was valuable yesterday then it's value could never drop!" Seems to hit Latin America a lot too. They mine a couple minerals OR grow a couple cash crops OR they drill for oil and none of them really focus on any major manufactured goods or value added industries.
@@arthas640 some south american countries tried, like chile during allende, he tried to make a manufacturing industry in the country and hopefully set a precedent to keep it running in following administrations, but the usa stepped in and did a coup on every country in the region, the governments installed by the usa focused on selling every valuable resource on those countries to the manufacturing industries of the usa and their allies.
Venezuela, Oil at $125/barrel "Everything for everyone!" Venezuela, Oil at $45/barrel "Nothing for anyone!"* *Unless you are the President, family member of the President, or 5% of other upper government/military.
@@arthas640i mean at least the gulf countries are trying to diversify but i have a feeling its much harder for them to do that than its for the south American countries
@@guycrew3973 Exactly. South American countries do have some other things going for them. Being close to the US (physically and with close cultural ties), having plenty of natural resources, and having a population whit close cultural ties to the whole continent and a language shared by most of the hemisphere all makes it so they could focus on more value added industries like Brazil and Mexico could use their oil to make plastics, Chile could use their minerals to make components and parts, and just about any of the countries could be doing assembly work (taking components and making them into things like engine blocks) since they have tons of manpower and low wages. A lot of those countries tried that and gave up when easier revenue streams appeared or the investors and experts got scared off. Gulf states have almost zero arable land, very few resources outside of oil and gas (and their biproducts like sulphur), and few ties outside of their region so it makes diversification much harder.
There is a fair amount of histories, made up by the countries involved to glamorize the stuff that happened then, each country built up heroic tales to explain it in history books., and they all agree on it. probably to justify the conflicts.
You can move the wind screen down a bit. I doesn't need to be centered on the microphone. It just needs to be positioned to prevent higher velocity air (breath) from hitting the microphone. Preferably you'd move the whole setup further from you and just turn up the gain to match, but since you don't have a proper recording studio, you're probably already fighting with background noises. So now gain is probably a non starter, although that's just an assumption.
and nothing says more equitable and more just than having the support of a single-party government currently "re-educating" over 1 million members of an ethnic and religious minority
Wait...how is it that I never knew this while living on the neighbour country?...especially the one that wants to get the upper hand over it (Chile). And this is why I follow guys like you
I am curious about that statement, why is a chinese loan a trap? Isn't all loan traps or atleast it is made not for the long term benefit of the loan takers?
@@nathanaelraynard2641 loans are meant to be transactions. I go to the bank and say I can not afford to pay 150,000$ got a house up front. The bank says I can and will because I see you are fiscally responsible and able to make payments, but I will need to be compensated. I will pay for your house and in return over then next 30 years you will pay me back and by the conclusion of your payments you will pay me a total of 175,000$. 150,000 will be the principal and 25,000$ will be the fee for using my money. I accept your terms. Chinas loans are I see you need a new port and no one thinks your financially stable enough to loan money to, but I think different because I am a benevolent country. I will loan you all of this money and give you personally some money to ensure we can do business. No need to look at the terms just look at all the zeros on the check I'm giving you. 5 years later when the politician is out of office or does something that angers China. I am now demanding you make all of these payments I let you defer prior if you the county I knew would struggle to make payments can not do so immediately I will be sezing your port and taking ownership of it.
@@nathanaelraynard2641 Belt and Road loans are debt traps. They are for infrastructure that is constructed by Chinese contractors at terms that can not be repaid, and then China gets control of the of the project and the country surrenders sovereignty. See Sri Lanka
@@nathanaelraynard2641 >Isn't all loan traps or atleast it is made not for the long term benefit of the loan takers? No, the foundational concept behind loans isn't intentionally predatory. At its base a cohesive group of people who wish to work together more efficiently might store - that is why the definition of "banking" derives from storage - all of their wealth together. Then when a subsection of that group finds a worthy way to invest the groups resources they might be lent a portion of the wider wealth from the group's bank that is needed to make their investment. The reason interest exists is to incentivize a return of that invested wealth back to the whole group's bank so that others who might need it have access. It is only under hostile capital that interest is considered a profit generator for a business separate from the person taking out the loan. Consider a family that owns only one car, and stores it (banks it) in their home along with the rest of their wealth. They might temporarily lend the car to a son in order to drive out and pick up groceries, because the investment nets a return that is beneficial for the whole group including the son. Things would be very different if the family lent the car to a son who offered to drive out and pick up groceries on the expectation that this son will crash, and so that the rest of the family could demand value of greater worth than the car where the interest is on the inconvenience of no longer having a vehicle. Ultimately the difference between predatory lending and regular lending is that predatory lending sees the person who asks for a loan as something to be exploited for maximum profit which could mean giving them very high rates on the expectation of not being able to repay so as to reap whatever was placed in collateral, while regular lending is perfectly fine with denying someone who asks for a loan any such temporary wealth on the basis that the investment is not healthy for that person.
The war over guano & saltpeter seems stupid by today standards but this is before the development of haber-bosch process. Post WW1 & a lot of dead soldiers(don't ask how that ties to the haber-bosch process or what Haber's contribution to WW2 is) conflicts over Guano & saltpeter declined thanks to Haber & Bosch. Rarely in history does one man have the responsibility for so many deaths & yet allowing the population to grow to its current state.😅
The move to try and rely more on china has some serious potential risks attached to it , especially as the Chinese Economy is faltering right now. That may be part of the reason why Washington is letting China make these moves - if it fails it would do more to push all of those nations back to the US than if the US tried to barnstorm its way through Latin America.
I hope the Bolivians can come through this ok but I can't help being concerned about China stepping in to "help." As Sri Lanka and other countries have demonstrated, China's help is often very expensive in the long run.
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 If what was mentioned in the video is true, that's not accurate, one of China's conditions was three Chinese state owned companies move in to Bolivia to extract Lithium, allowing China to make more money on top of the loan and interest payments. And, I don't doubt there were more conditions we don't know about. So no, the condition is not simply pay it back. Not the worst deal imo, but that's for Bolivians to decide.
@@OptimalToast Indeed, there are also often legal agreements attached to such loans that make the Chinese companies (and employees) virtually above the law and able to do whatever they want. (They also frequently bring in Chinese employees for every level of the operation so the host country doesn't even get jobs out of the deal.)
I wanted to read more on this and some of the stuff from your recent Bangladesh video. Do have a source list anywhere? stuff like this i find really intriguing.
I haven't gotten too far into the video and am open to having my mind changed, but the idea that Acre himself ordered the coup doesn't really make sense to me. Zúñiga *has* to have known that, in order for Acre to "defeat" a fake coup, he would've needed to be arrested afterwards, no? Is Zúñiga claiming that he thought he was doing a real coup, but that Acre set him up? How could he possibly know Acre's specific plan and motives if he wasn't in on it? Why couldn't Acre, say, have been setting him up as essentially a Honeypot?
Here, if you have money and connections, laws don't apply to you. so, he was going to be start a coup, get arrested then retire with full pay, free in some other place
@@wil1941 In that case, why squeal immediately after getting caught if everything was going according to plan? I'm not really sure what that achieves beyond alienating Acre and making his theoretical release much more politically complex.
@@datfisheboi6519 But then why would you ask for more details? I don't see how there's much to interpret, the man is facing life in prison and making desparate claims.
Your example of Bernie and Trump is not a good one. Before Bernie sell out to the DNC establishment he and Trump had a couple of similar talking points related to populism. Bernie was against unrestricted immigration because it impacted American workers, he believed we had to renegotiate our deals because it was sending American tax payer dollars abroad, he was opposed to foreign wars.
I've made a similar argument with the original Tea Party and Occupy movements. Both actually had very similar goals. Unfortunately both groups fell for the myth of the Open Tent in an attempt to grow their numbers and ended up getting involved in various social issues that had nothing to do with their original reasons for being. This caused both groups to see each other as an enemy and lose focus on what they could have done together.
Id almost rather you just drop all your narratives on Spotify too. Its easier to listen to. I dont mind 15 minute videos. Not sure about the WHY but id prefer it. And tell Gabby i said sorry, she doesnt talk enough now! I was just tired of her interrupting when you were going in on a point! Shes awesome, and asks the questions alot of us would!
Idea for a future video. Coups that actually led to an open reasonably democratic government. I have a feeling it's a short list compared to the usual "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" outcome.
Australian allows foreign Gas Companies like Prince Andrew's BG (British Gas) for Free - in fact subsidized by Australian Domestic Natural Gas users who now pay Sky High Prices due to the Local Gas Shortage Prince Andrew's 5 LNG Export Terminals create
“People of Bolivia…..” Wildlands was a banger of a game. I always wondered why they made a game about Mexican cartels in Bolivia instead of just having it in Mexico.. I guess PR based reasons.
I can’t say I feel bad that the government stepped in to stop the growing of coca plants. It may have been a cash crop that they needed for the money but it has extremely negative effects. There are other cash crops such as cocoa and coffee which I would assume would also do well in those climates that they could have been growing with far less negative effects on everyone.
Someone should hook up some wires to Simon Bolivar, with all the nations he tried so hard to give democracy to falling to coup after coup has to have him rolling at over 5k rpm at this point. He's probably a source of free energy....
The China Observer video talking about this coup explained that the "tofu-dreg quality" of the chinese-manufactured military vehicles caused the failure of the event, as the steering of the second vehicle in the caravan died immediately after a curb was hit.
This video is very biased and as I was watching it I couldn’t help but start doubting it more and more. The historical part was mostly true, albeit a bit simplified, but the current scenario Bolivia is going through is being analyzed through a “American help = good” “China help = bad” and for a country like Bolivia that can’t be further from the truth. Not only has America intervened in our democratic process in the past (with violence and assassinations I might add), but any super power trying to bet on our small territory should be treated with the same distrust and carefulness, the CIA role in 20th century’s Bolivia and South America’s history should be proof enough that they never tried to help here out of the goodness of their hearts but because we’re their backyard as they so smugly say.
Hey can you please do a deep dive on the situation and economy of rwanda, we seem to have a constant 20-30% inflation despite an 6-8% year on year growth rate, and elections with 99% majority (though our president is beloved), I'd like to know what's our prospect are
God day every one , I'm Peruvian born and during my school years in peru regarding the war of the pacific( peru,Bolivia, chile)peru used to extend to Arica(now part of chile) then used to be Bolivia the next neighbor of of peru yes before the pacific war the next country was Bolivia and they used to have ocean access and then was chile, and it was chile the provoked that war( and they prepare for it) peru and Bolivia where not so chile attacked Bolivia for the guano and you know the rest Bolivia lost ther ocean access and peru lost Arica and according to the peace treaty of the time, Arica after 100 years can vote to remain been part of chile or return to be part of Peru again but this did not realize, and till today even know is peace the pacific is no complete thrust between chile and Peru since they didn't honor there part of the treaty and ever since then Peru been armed themselves to protect there territory and history doesn't repeat again thank you for your time ,just need to clear the chile was the attacker not the other way arround.
I don’t know if slipping in the lie that we import even food as part of the video was sloppy and poor research or done in bad faith but that has greatly discredited my trust in this video. We produce our own food, it’s another matter entirely that we need to import fuel to transport it back to the cities.
Hey Stakuyi it would be cool if you could say measurments too in the metric system when its like in 09:29 I have no idea how hight that is supposed to be and I think many of your viewers have that problem bc ourtside of the Feet and miles are not really used.
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Zuniga was inspired by Prigozhin's coup attempt. First, fail to storm the capital, second, pretend you were actually loyal the whole time to the current leader.
When Hearts of Iron 12 is out, Prigozhin will probably have his own alternate historical path
@@bulletflight I wonder if Millennium Dawn has added a pringle path yet.
I wonder if he'll follow step 3?
I dont think he'll like step 3
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As a Bolivian i really look forward to seeing your analysis of this whole situation, great to see people talking about our country, love your content man.
Hi, how's socialism working out for you?
@@legatobluesummers3211 terrible, worse considering i never even voted for it
Ya conseguiste gasolina? 🥲
@@Kanadabalsam of course, forgive me for asking you in that manner. Socialism has become like a tradition in that part of the world, and it throws people into poverty, and the poorest people become the more they vote socialism.
It's like the definition of madness.
@@legatobluesummers3211people view socialism in rose tinted glasses until the working/middle class gets the short end of the stick. This is why we shouldn't give people the soap box; preaching it just because they like how it sounds on paper.
This is definitely one of the most embarrassing coups of this decade
America took a socialist coup led by a Geriatric, a cackling mad woman and a coalition of know psychopaths. They not only took over the entire country in little under 5 years, they did so without a hint of subterfuge or tact. Not only this! We don't know why! They are not a socialist movement nor a nationalist movement they are a chaos movement that merely takes on the most destructive ideals. No sane person believes any of their ideology and yet we are in year three of a counter attack and mind you? Mind you? No shots fired so the entire nation ignores the fact that WE ARE UNDER A GODDAM ILLEGITAMATE GOVERNMENT which achieved its power by how? POLITICAL COUP.
No, america takes this one and you're not shifting the award under my watch. Just wait, I suspect the other shoe to drop when Trump gets elected just to really grind it home to people that hero worship is mindless and counter productive.
I mean, yes but also there are a lot to pick from. Prigozhin, Trump, Bolsonaro, etc.
Just a little correction. Bolivia didn't officially lost territory to Brazil. What happened was that a group of rouge Brazilians conquered a territory without Brazilian goverment permission. When called to settle the situation Brazil tried to argue it's citizens out of there, but ultimately they had to compensate Bolivia by giving in exchange another piece of land plus some money
A bit more complex than that The territory of Acre was basically empty, but was also rich in rubber trees, an expensive commodity at the time. It was then settled by people from the state of Amazonas in Brazil, sponsored by the state, in hopes that it would eventually just be majority in the region and just drift into Brazilian sovereignty and be incorporated in the state. The Brazilian government didn't know and wasn't informed, as it'd like be against the plan because it'd trigger tensions with Bolivia. As the Brazilian settlers became majority, which wasn't hard, they declared independence and applied to Brazilian statehood, but got rejected cause it'd trigger a with Bolivia. In time, it was settled that the territory would be ceded to Brazil with some concessions, like taking over some debts from Bolivia and the construction of a railroad. Bolivia accepted because since Brazilians were majority in the territory, it'd never regain of it control anyways.
In the end, the railroad costed thousands of lives to build and by the time it was completed it was functionally useless, as synthetic rubber crashed the demand for the expensive natural rubber.
@@LucasSchimmel Brazil itself did not have that much territory to start with, but they send out settlers to the east anyways, just like the US in its infancy, the idea was occupy territory and declare to itself, Portugal had that straight up down line as a limit, but the land between current Bolivia and Brazil is all deep jungle forest, very hard to maintain, so the ones with most settlers wins, and Bolivian province was too worried with their own deals on the east at the time to keep protecting and cleaning house, on the west, of the new Brazilian invaded land. Until today those are crazy parts of South America, you enter pretty much no mans land, and is up to the local authorities to define their own rules.
As a Chilean , its pretty weird seeing my neighbour country having a cou... hope the best for Bolivians.
Totally unrelated, but that german helmet on top of the tournament helmet is just hilarious.
Link?
@@AFlawBitter Mark I Eyeball, it's in the video dude.
@@hypotheticalaxolotl …when people say “link” in the comments they mean a time link,give me the time in the video
@@AFlawBitter 7:36 check the great helmets with a german helmet behind him to the left.
Edit: The other helmet is not a german wwi helmet, I was mistaken.
@@AFlawBitter What link? It's in the video, behind Stack, to OUR left (his right).
Steven 29 minutes into a 50 minute video: "This is where our story really begins."
I love you man and the background was really interesting and important, but that was too funny
Zuñiga rolls worst military coup ever, immediately asked to leave
"Sir, this is a Wendy's, can you just tell me what you'd like to eat and/or move on?"
Everyone's got coup fever
Tfw its only the 5000th coup this year.
dont tell the french. they take you serious.
Crazy that y'all are think this is a new phenomenon lmao
@@Ayem427no but there was a serious drop in the number of coups across the 90s, 00s, and 2010s compared to decades previously and the 2020s have been like non stop coups and attempted coups a levels we haven't really seen since cold wars and world wars were the norm. Not coups but the west isn't much better with countries like the UK barely even bothering with elections so much as just resigning in disgrace before you can get fired, the US having a famous riot people called a coup, and Russia nearly suffer a coup from one of their main coup exporters Wagner
We live in interesting times.
Sometimes it's like just seeing the world go into flames around you and you know eventually your country may be next.
Re: Lithium, there are a lot of new economic deposits found in the US very recently. There's one on par with what's in Bolivia found near the Nevada-Oregon Border, and I've seen reports of other places in the US having non trivial deposits as well.
I legit didn't look at the length of the video, clicked on it, expected a quick overview of the coup, stayed for the whole history class LOL
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@@historyofeverythingpodcast never change man, never change
@@historyofeverythingpodcastseriously though your vids are great I’ve only been watching a few days and am already addicted
I really appreciate the fact the he is coveraging my countries economic and social issues. Also today is bolivian independence day.
Hope y'all weather this swiftly. Be safe!
Bolivians "tourist" to Peru have increased from 3000 to 30000 in the first 5 months of the year vs last year. (2023vs2024)
Build a border wall 😂
Totally understand. History builds on itself. This is why sometimes as a history teacher, it can be hard to determine a good starting point for people.
Dude, if you have time in the future, please do a piece on Cambodia and Pol Pot.
As a native Cambodian, I can only summarize that time period as human skulls, blood and a little bit more skulls. And I’m starting to think pol pot is a Khrone worshiper before 40k even existed.
@@goosegoblin1844hahahah. ayo fellow Asian
Hmm....yeah..i saw a video about that and....
I had to hold my guts in.
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Another point to the nothing ever happens crowd.
VERY well done! The amount of research alone required to do something like this is staggering. And then the editing! Ahhh! 😂
Good job 👍
boliva has a rich history of Coup d'état, its just how they do stuff. like 190 coups in the past 200 years. they have had weirder coups
This sounds curiously similar to the period of Spanish history that was parallel to the wars of independence
I liked the coup that featured the comically-oversized bible. That was a real clown show of a coup.
You did a pretty good job. There's a couple of minor errors here and here, but I get it, my country is REALLY hard to understand, especially looking from the outside, and sources are scarce and often contradictory, so you get a pass. I especially appreciate the explanation of the current compound crisis. I'm recomending your video to my fellow Bolivians!
You're one of the few things that I look forward to every week thank you for your videos
Poor Bolivia 😢😮 thank you for the very interesting video!!
I was literally just trying to look for a video on this when I got this video's upload notification. What luck.
Glad I could help
@@historyofeverythingpodcastcould I ask a favour (that others have suggested as well)
Please lower your mike so people like me whose hearing is not great can see your mouth?
Bolivia in the 1980's: We have civilian democracy! We are stable and we just need to fix our debt! Good thing we have a stable export!
Tin Crash of 1985: Hello there, we would like to introduce ourselves.
It's crazy how often countries see Dutch Disease and think "well, I better not hurt this one thing i can sell by diversifying. If it's valuable today and was valuable yesterday then it's value could never drop!" Seems to hit Latin America a lot too. They mine a couple minerals OR grow a couple cash crops OR they drill for oil and none of them really focus on any major manufactured goods or value added industries.
@@arthas640 some south american countries tried, like chile during allende, he tried to make a manufacturing industry in the country and hopefully set a precedent to keep it running in following administrations, but the usa stepped in and did a coup on every country in the region, the governments installed by the usa focused on selling every valuable resource on those countries to the manufacturing industries of the usa and their allies.
Venezuela, Oil at $125/barrel "Everything for everyone!"
Venezuela, Oil at $45/barrel "Nothing for anyone!"*
*Unless you are the President, family member of the President, or 5% of other upper government/military.
@@arthas640i mean at least the gulf countries are trying to diversify but i have a feeling its much harder for them to do that than its for the south American countries
@@guycrew3973 Exactly. South American countries do have some other things going for them. Being close to the US (physically and with close cultural ties), having plenty of natural resources, and having a population whit close cultural ties to the whole continent and a language shared by most of the hemisphere all makes it so they could focus on more value added industries like Brazil and Mexico could use their oil to make plastics, Chile could use their minerals to make components and parts, and just about any of the countries could be doing assembly work (taking components and making them into things like engine blocks) since they have tons of manpower and low wages. A lot of those countries tried that and gave up when easier revenue streams appeared or the investors and experts got scared off. Gulf states have almost zero arable land, very few resources outside of oil and gas (and their biproducts like sulphur), and few ties outside of their region so it makes diversification much harder.
You should do a video on The Chaco War and the horrendous consequences that Paraguay and Bolivia would pay.
Damn, thats a lot of Coup. Big ole Coup-stew.
The war of the pacific was batshit insane
There is a fair amount of histories, made up by the countries involved to glamorize the stuff that happened then, each country built up heroic tales to explain it in history books., and they all agree on it. probably to justify the conflicts.
You can move the wind screen down a bit. I doesn't need to be centered on the microphone. It just needs to be positioned to prevent higher velocity air (breath) from hitting the microphone.
Preferably you'd move the whole setup further from you and just turn up the gain to match, but since you don't have a proper recording studio, you're probably already fighting with background noises. So now gain is probably a non starter, although that's just an assumption.
“Curious if any of you are related to me”
Me, a Dane… “probably”
Me, a person who doesn't want my DNA all over the place ready to be sold to authorities and medical insurance companies.... We'll never know.
Here a guy from Chile 🙌. The Pacific war was about salitre, not guano.
and nothing says more equitable and more just than having the support of a single-party government currently "re-educating" over 1 million members of an ethnic and religious minority
"Don't look behind the curtain," said the Wizard.
Wait...how is it that I never knew this while living on the neighbour country?...especially the one that wants to get the upper hand over it (Chile).
And this is why I follow guys like you
Great video 👍🏽👍🏽
Chinese loans are a trap
I am curious about that statement, why is a chinese loan a trap? Isn't all loan traps or atleast it is made not for the long term benefit of the loan takers?
@@nathanaelraynard2641 loans are meant to be transactions. I go to the bank and say I can not afford to pay 150,000$ got a house up front. The bank says I can and will because I see you are fiscally responsible and able to make payments, but I will need to be compensated. I will pay for your house and in return over then next 30 years you will pay me back and by the conclusion of your payments you will pay me a total of 175,000$. 150,000 will be the principal and 25,000$ will be the fee for using my money. I accept your terms. Chinas loans are I see you need a new port and no one thinks your financially stable enough to loan money to, but I think different because I am a benevolent country. I will loan you all of this money and give you personally some money to ensure we can do business. No need to look at the terms just look at all the zeros on the check I'm giving you. 5 years later when the politician is out of office or does something that angers China. I am now demanding you make all of these payments I let you defer prior if you the county I knew would struggle to make payments can not do so immediately I will be sezing your port and taking ownership of it.
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Belt and Road loans are debt traps. They are for infrastructure that is constructed by Chinese contractors at terms that can not be repaid, and then China gets control of the of the project and the country surrenders sovereignty.
See Sri Lanka
@@nathanaelraynard2641 depends on terms of the loan. Chinese loans and some pretty tight strings attached.
@@nathanaelraynard2641 >Isn't all loan traps or atleast it is made not for the long term benefit of the loan takers?
No, the foundational concept behind loans isn't intentionally predatory. At its base a cohesive group of people who wish to work together more efficiently might store - that is why the definition of "banking" derives from storage - all of their wealth together. Then when a subsection of that group finds a worthy way to invest the groups resources they might be lent a portion of the wider wealth from the group's bank that is needed to make their investment. The reason interest exists is to incentivize a return of that invested wealth back to the whole group's bank so that others who might need it have access. It is only under hostile capital that interest is considered a profit generator for a business separate from the person taking out the loan.
Consider a family that owns only one car, and stores it (banks it) in their home along with the rest of their wealth. They might temporarily lend the car to a son in order to drive out and pick up groceries, because the investment nets a return that is beneficial for the whole group including the son. Things would be very different if the family lent the car to a son who offered to drive out and pick up groceries on the expectation that this son will crash, and so that the rest of the family could demand value of greater worth than the car where the interest is on the inconvenience of no longer having a vehicle.
Ultimately the difference between predatory lending and regular lending is that predatory lending sees the person who asks for a loan as something to be exploited for maximum profit which could mean giving them very high rates on the expectation of not being able to repay so as to reap whatever was placed in collateral, while regular lending is perfectly fine with denying someone who asks for a loan any such temporary wealth on the basis that the investment is not healthy for that person.
As a Chilean, the pacific war was over salitre, not wano.
Yeah, the Salpeter Wars
Who is surprised that Stakuyi is a Viking?
The war over guano & saltpeter seems stupid by today standards but this is before the development of haber-bosch process. Post WW1 & a lot of dead soldiers(don't ask how that ties to the haber-bosch process or what Haber's contribution to WW2 is) conflicts over Guano & saltpeter declined thanks to Haber & Bosch. Rarely in history does one man have the responsibility for so many deaths & yet allowing the population to grow to its current state.😅
this is something out of the death of stalin movie isnt it
We're on, what, like the 5th "weirdest coup ever" in ike 4 years?
Im sad the term "Bolivian marching powered" was never used
The move to try and rely more on china has some serious potential risks attached to it , especially as the Chinese Economy is faltering right now. That may be part of the reason why Washington is letting China make these moves - if it fails it would do more to push all of those nations back to the US than if the US tried to barnstorm its way through Latin America.
An interesting take on the situation that I hadn’t considered. Chinas economy has a lot of issues.
I hope the Bolivians can come through this ok but I can't help being concerned about China stepping in to "help." As Sri Lanka and other countries have demonstrated, China's help is often very expensive in the long run.
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 If what was mentioned in the video is true, that's not accurate, one of China's conditions was three Chinese state owned companies move in to Bolivia to extract Lithium, allowing China to make more money on top of the loan and interest payments. And, I don't doubt there were more conditions we don't know about. So no, the condition is not simply pay it back. Not the worst deal imo, but that's for Bolivians to decide.
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 they destroy the countries by setting up shops that sell super cheap goods .
@@OptimalToast Indeed, there are also often legal agreements attached to such loans that make the Chinese companies (and employees) virtually above the law and able to do whatever they want. (They also frequently bring in Chinese employees for every level of the operation so the host country doesn't even get jobs out of the deal.)
China uses their debt very similar to the US and IMF anyways by using it as leverage over the country to push their agenda.
im completely lost
We need an actualisation of the situation.
This reminds me of the Onion Video of the US staging a self-revolution to eliminate our debt
"Unidad chopper, get down!"
Love your video so far! Just wanted to say guano is rich in Phosphorus!!
I wanted to read more on this and some of the stuff from your recent Bangladesh video. Do have a source list anywhere? stuff like this i find really intriguing.
Taliban water war drops tomorrow but my next video after that will be the Bangladesh update
Drinking game...
Take a shot every time there's a crisis in Bolivia
I haven't gotten too far into the video and am open to having my mind changed, but the idea that Acre himself ordered the coup doesn't really make sense to me. Zúñiga *has* to have known that, in order for Acre to "defeat" a fake coup, he would've needed to be arrested afterwards, no? Is Zúñiga claiming that he thought he was doing a real coup, but that Acre set him up? How could he possibly know Acre's specific plan and motives if he wasn't in on it? Why couldn't Acre, say, have been setting him up as essentially a Honeypot?
Here, if you have money and connections, laws don't apply to you. so, he was going to be start a coup, get arrested then retire with full pay, free in some other place
@@wil1941 In that case, why squeal immediately after getting caught if everything was going according to plan? I'm not really sure what that achieves beyond alienating Acre and making his theoretical release much more politically complex.
are you roleplaying as a side character from that movie where no one ever thought of lying before
@@slyseal2091 I mean yeah, Zúñiga being a liar is pretty obviously what I'm implying here
@@datfisheboi6519 But then why would you ask for more details? I don't see how there's much to interpret, the man is facing life in prison and making desparate claims.
Another one? I feel like Bolivia has a coup every sunday.
Socialists suck at governing?!
Your example of Bernie and Trump is not a good one. Before Bernie sell out to the DNC establishment he and Trump had a couple of similar talking points related to populism. Bernie was against unrestricted immigration because it impacted American workers, he believed we had to renegotiate our deals because it was sending American tax payer dollars abroad, he was opposed to foreign wars.
I've made a similar argument with the original Tea Party and Occupy movements. Both actually had very similar goals. Unfortunately both groups fell for the myth of the Open Tent in an attempt to grow their numbers and ended up getting involved in various social issues that had nothing to do with their original reasons for being. This caused both groups to see each other as an enemy and lose focus on what they could have done together.
Fascinating
Aw man, I though you´ll talk more about the Chaco war.
He shoulda watched Ordinary Things' video on how to coup a country.
Fr. Amateur work.
“So can we get some legal coca here, for the altitude?”
There is so many coup going on.
Talk about Morocco and Algeria brother plzzzzzzzzz
he should have watched ordinary things coup guide
As a dane it kinda makes sense you have danish ancestors. You remind me of a lot of dudes i know in looks and voice and such.
the man at 3:33 is an ancient incan
Hmmm. Something to think about.
Wildlands
Ghost recon mentioned
Id almost rather you just drop all your narratives on Spotify too. Its easier to listen to. I dont mind 15 minute videos. Not sure about the WHY but id prefer it. And tell Gabby i said sorry, she doesnt talk enough now! I was just tired of her interrupting when you were going in on a point! Shes awesome, and asks the questions alot of us would!
3:33 Pharrell Williams is in Bolivia ?
i forgot about bolivia...ty
black legend about spanish goverment we never had colonies we had virreinatos and the mines where privaticed
Idea for a future video. Coups that actually led to an open reasonably democratic government. I have a feeling it's a short list compared to the usual "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" outcome.
That spit guard is massive. It takes up half your face.
Australian allows foreign Gas Companies like Prince Andrew's BG (British Gas) for Free - in fact subsidized by Australian Domestic Natural Gas users who now pay Sky High Prices due to the Local Gas Shortage Prince Andrew's 5 LNG Export Terminals create
B-tier coup. Quite messy, but the drama and pacing is pretty good. Thankfully it didn't go through.
All the Chinese made equipment broke almost immediately.
funniest reason to create a coup.
Can you make a video on Nigeria??
Like most of these stories: "And then it got worse..."
Ah yes, the classic “rely on China” to help you. Whatever happened to the countries that relied on the USSR to help them?
“People of Bolivia…..”
Wildlands was a banger of a game. I always wondered why they made a game about Mexican cartels in Bolivia instead of just having it in Mexico.. I guess PR based reasons.
I can’t say I feel bad that the government stepped in to stop the growing of coca plants. It may have been a cash crop that they needed for the money but it has extremely negative effects. There are other cash crops such as cocoa and coffee which I would assume would also do well in those climates that they could have been growing with far less negative effects on everyone.
Name a Latin American country that’s not in a crisis:
Challenge level: Impossible!
I live in the Dominican republic
Belize? Maybe El Salvador in another decade or so. Maybe.
Uruguay, Surinam, France?
Chile is also rather stable. The last large protests they had was over metro fares..:D
@@Garlic2111we stay winning 💪🇩🇴
One week before I was actually in Bolivia 😅
*laughs in ghost recon wildlands*
Dislike for myHeritage plug.
They take your most personal data and sell data about you and all your relatives to corp, gov, brokers.
Self coups are not unheard of in south America, Brazil had an attempt on the 50s/60s
Someone should hook up some wires to Simon Bolivar, with all the nations he tried so hard to give democracy to falling to coup after coup has to have him rolling at over 5k rpm at this point. He's probably a source of free energy....
Coup is bad, why cant they have soup instead
The "Movement Towards Socialism" huh? Who's going to tell them?
The China Observer video talking about this coup explained that the "tofu-dreg quality" of the chinese-manufactured military vehicles caused the failure of the event, as the steering of the second vehicle in the caravan died immediately after a curb was hit.
Not sure if this is a joke or not, it’s certainly funny either way and something I could see happening
I love the idea of My Heritage, but this kind of thing doesn't work for people like me, who wrre adopted and don't have a last name to start with 😔
This video is very biased and as I was watching it I couldn’t help but start doubting it more and more. The historical part was mostly true, albeit a bit simplified, but the current scenario Bolivia is going through is being analyzed through a “American help = good” “China help = bad” and for a country like Bolivia that can’t be further from the truth. Not only has America intervened in our democratic process in the past (with violence and assassinations I might add), but any super power trying to bet on our small territory should be treated with the same distrust and carefulness, the CIA role in 20th century’s Bolivia and South America’s history should be proof enough that they never tried to help here out of the goodness of their hearts but because we’re their backyard as they so smugly say.
That ad is the most American thing ever, trying to discover some kind of identity by going back to Europe
Interesting video, although it was quite confusing every time I heard "Indian".
How many coups this year alone does this make?
Finally, some WEIRD governmental unrest
Hey can you please do a deep dive on the situation and economy of rwanda, we seem to have a constant 20-30% inflation despite an 6-8% year on year growth rate, and elections with 99% majority (though our president is beloved), I'd like to know what's our prospect are
God day every one , I'm Peruvian born and during my school years in peru regarding the war of the pacific( peru,Bolivia, chile)peru used to extend to Arica(now part of chile) then used to be Bolivia the next neighbor of of peru yes before the pacific war the next country was Bolivia and they used to have ocean access and then was chile, and it was chile the provoked that war( and they prepare for it) peru and Bolivia where not so chile attacked Bolivia for the guano and you know the rest Bolivia lost ther ocean access and peru lost Arica and according to the peace treaty of the time, Arica after 100 years can vote to remain been part of chile or return to be part of Peru again but this did not realize, and till today even know is peace the pacific is no complete thrust between chile and Peru since they didn't honor there part of the treaty and ever since then Peru been armed themselves to protect there territory and history doesn't repeat again thank you for your time ,just need to clear the chile was the attacker not the other way arround.
There is too many conflicting interests in the world for democracy to ever flourish. Too many competing interests to ever have a pure system.
I don’t know if slipping in the lie that we import even food as part of the video was sloppy and poor research or done in bad faith but that has greatly discredited my trust in this video. We produce our own food, it’s another matter entirely that we need to import fuel to transport it back to the cities.
Hey Stakuyi it would be cool if you could say measurments too in the metric system when its like in 09:29 I have no idea how hight that is supposed to be and I think many of your viewers have that problem bc ourtside of the Feet and miles are not really used.