• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is this referring to Bolivia? Because that was almost definitely orchestrated by the current Bolivian president for political points and had nothing to do with the CIA.

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      3 days ago

      Could be, the time does look approximately right since it’s from 26.6.

      Frankly it’s hilarious how people especially on the more, er… fringe side of the leftist spectrum seem to think that the CIA is behind everything. Feels like for some people spilling their coffee means that it happened because the CIA made the floor slippery. Also every time a country like eg. Ukraine decides they’d very much like to not have a brutal Russian-controlled puppet government, or there’s anything even resembling a coup in South America, it’s somehow the CIA’s doing.

      And no, I’m not saying the CIA hasn’t ever done anything nefarious or won’t do so in the future; they’ve definitely done a lot of nasty shit in their time, but they also tended to overstate their own importance and success a lot.