General Are you following that Iraq is having a protest right now?

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the governor general and the caucus of the party in power decide who to appoint .there is no line of succession
It'd be cool if Lizzie came in and laid the hammer down on all the dissent in Alberta
 
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Coup d'etat
Well now the pro-Morales crowd is protesting/rioting.

It goes to show, though, that all a Latin American leader needs to do in order to be forced from office is to lose the support of his/her nation's military.

Morales is out but Maduro endures...
 

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Graphics like that are somewhat misleading because "political freedom" is too nebulous a term and all of these uprisings have economic issues undergirding them alongside a desire for freedoms and justice. Similarly, collapsing corruption into a category with economics doesn't take into account political corruption that marginalizes or stifles political participation. Lebanon is a good example as there are widespread feelings that the government is unrepresentative and the mostly sectarian party choices are stifling. Bolivia is another example where there was one movement to take down Morales by particular classes in Bolivian society and now there's a countermovement against the rising authoritarian tide that's seeking to purge Morales' party and is doing so by violence. I'd say it's important to resist any narratives that divorce politics from economy anyway. It's definitely interesting timing that these actions are taking place simultaneously, but it's also weird that they're being grouped this way. There have been sometimes large and steady protests in the US over the past couple years, so we could and maybe should be on that list.