Modern Bolivian History w/ Ollie Vargas

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Ollie Vargas to talk about the recent history of Bolivia.  This is an expansive episode that aims to provide historical grounding of Bolivia so that we can better understand current events taking place there!

Ollie Vargas is a Bolivian reporter at Kawsachun News, and has covered Bolvian politics, news, and the recent coup for other outlets such as The Grayzone, teleSUR English, Morning Star, and Mintpress News.  You can follow Ollie on twitter @OVargas52. You can find Kawsachun News via twitter @KawsachunNews or on their website kawsachunnews.com. Support Kawsachun News, which provides a ton of vital reporting and analysis of Bolivia and Latin America more broadly by subscribing to their patreon at patreon.com/KawsachunNews.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.  If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995.  Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/.   Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod.  Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.  

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.