One Day In January Early Sunday, January 23, 2022, intense gunfire was heard outside of military bases and Burkina Faso’s presidential palace in Ouagadougou. Mutinous troops demanded the dismissal of their country’s military chiefs and more significant resources to fight the Islamist insurgency, which killed 2000 and displaced over 1.5 million in recent years. On […]
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Resistance Beyond Borders: HK19 Meets Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Movement
The recent Myanmar Coup is hardly unprecedented. Myanmar was governed by a military dictatorship from 1962 to 2011, leaving the country under the iron fist of the Tatmadaw, the Burmese Military. The strength of the Tatmadaw was enshrined by the 2008 Constitution, which guarantees one third of parliamentary seats to the military, reserves leadership of […]
The Cocalero’s Legacy: What Evo Morales’ exit means for Bolivia
On November 10th, 2019, Bolivian President Evo Morales was pressured to resign at the demand of military leadership amid controversy around his re-election. The results showed a clear Morales victory without the need for a second-round runoff vote, but observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) had determined that Morales’s first-round win could not […]