Ollie Vargas

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Journalist covering Latin America.

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1Feb 20, '23In Cusco, Peru, children are throwing water balloons and spray foam at the coup regime's police officers. The cops are forced to retreat after getting soaked 😅113×1.6M12k2.2k330
2Nov 15, '25🇦🇷 Young Argentinian says he’s just had to move back in with his parents, sell his car, and can’t even afford a beer because he’s struggling to pay for basic food. Then states th87.1×1.3M8k711693
3Oct 21, '23Why does this IDF soldier have a full US accent? Literally a white foreigner bombing indigenous Palestinians off their land.69.7×1M14k3k522
4Feb 13, '22The first thing I saw on Tiktok today 🇺🇸62.4×0157k14k3.6k
5Dec 16, '22Peru's unelected regime bringing liberal democracy to the majority that voted for Pedro Castillo.28.3×408k3.9k1k68
6Aug 6, '24Cuban wrestler Mijaín Lopez wins gold. The first ever athlete - of any sport - to win five consecutive gold medals. Living legend 🇨🇺21.8×314k13k1.4k224
7Sep 9, '25Venezuela is NOT a cocaine producer, nor does it register as a significant transit country. Meanwhile, 70% of Colombia's cocaine that reaches the US departs from Ecuadorian ports, 16.6×239k8.9k2.6k776
8Mar 25, '22The countries in yellow have sanctioned Russia. The countries in gray have not sanctioned Russia.15.7×026k8.1k1.2k
9Jan 9, '23Coup attempt in Brazil obviously failed, but a real coup has taken place in Peru and those opposing it are being gunned down in the streets. The 'international community' and media14.3×206k4.4k1.3k95
10Oct 31, '25Venezuela's high command appearing all together today in Caracas: We fight for national independence, for national sovereignty, and against slavery.13.1×189k8.4k1.8k222
11Oct 31, '25So much mass death in the world - Gaza, Sudan, and now the murderers want to bring it to Venezuela, a country that hasn’t been at war with anyone for over 120 years. The US is an e12.1×173k11k3.6k402
12Jan 3Latin America's left survived the US-puppet dictatorships of the 1970s, when our parents and grandparents were being murdered, tortured and disappeared. The left rebuilt, won power11.9×171k4.2k954225
13Jan 6, '23Bolsonaro was spotted in Miami wearing a US national team football shirt. He's going full gusano 🤯11.9×171k2.9k26539
14Oct 1, '24AMLO 🇲🇽 - Leaves office with 68% approval rating - Constantly trolled US media - Turned the historic right-wing political parties to dust - Nationalized lithium & other secto11.3×163k4.7k513332
15Jan 10, '23When there were protests in Cuba (zero deaths) there was non stop coverage in western media. Now there's anti-coup protests in Peru, 46 protesters killed. Silence.9.9×142k4.2k98083
16Jan 8, '23Peru general strike: Indigenous andean communities are moving giant rocks to place at the barricades, without machinery. Inca style coordinated team work.9.6×138k2.7k54167
17Nov 7, '25Very true. Murder and drug trafficking gangs have always been anti-socialist. Throughout Italian history local landlords and capitalists would hire the Mafia to assasinate union le9.2×132k5.4k879325
18Sep 9, '25Just found out there’s a Brazilian footballer called Marx Lenin. Started out at Flamengo, the country's biggest club. He also used to play for a Russian club named "Akron Togliatti7.2×104k4.1k379410
20Nov 11, '19This is the leader the world has lost. This from 2018, when Evo listed the crimes of the US, whilst sitting next to Trump at the UN. He was never defeated democratically, they coul6.7×09.9k4.8k400
21Jan 10, '23Foreign media isn't covering the massacres in Peru for two reasons: 1) The victims are indigenous 2) The dictatorship there is an ally of the US6.7×96k2.9k82857
22May 15, '21Two Latin Americas6.0×014k1.8k177
24Oct 19, '20BREAKING: Exit polls show that Bolivia's Movement Towards Socialism have won the presidency in the 1st round with 52.4% of the vote. This is an even higher score than when Evo Mora5.5×08.9k2.7k78
25Aug 27, '22Premier league managers wearing Ukraine badges, but waving a Palestine flag results in a fine. They got a whites only policy 🤷5.4×012k2.4k111
26Aug 19, '21You never know where you're gonna end up in life.4.9×012k1.1k199
27May 17, '21The South American left is in power in: 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇻🇪 Venezuela They are polling in 1st place in: 🇧🇷 Brazil (Lula) 🇵🇪 Peru (Castillo) 🇨🇱 Chile (Left lists 4.7×011k1.4k269
28Nov 3, '22The only countries to not vote against the US blockade on Cuba today: 🇮🇱 Israel 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇧🇷 Brazil (Bolsonaro) The axis of evil4.6×010k1.5k171
29Nov 1, '25The Miami Herald admits that the “drug trafficking” justification for attacking Venezuela is a lie, that it’s just marketing to convince low-IQ Americans that yet another war is in4.2×60k3.6k1.9k170
31Sep 27, '21Angela Merkel governed for 16 years, re-elected 4 times by the 🇩🇪 people. Evo Morales governed for 13 years, re-elected 4 times by the 🇧🇴 people, and by much larger margins tha3.9×08.6k1.5k175
32Jun 7, '21Peruvian media mocking Pedro Castillo's traditional clothes at the start of the campaign. I don't think they're laughing anymore.3.2×07.1k1.3k60
33Nov 18, '25Ecuadorians have voted to reject US military bases in their country, that reflects the sentiment of all of Latin America - President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum2.9×41k2.4k500112
34Nov 10, '20We're driving to Evo Morales' home town in Oruro, but every village along on the highway demands that he come out of the car so that they can express their support. Most give him f2.8×05.5k1.2k79
35Jul 12, '2168,000 fake twitter accounts were created to support the Bolivia coup. Keep that in mind if you see spam messages from 'Cubans' with 2 followers.2.8×04.8k1.7k155
36Mar 28, '22The true size of Latin America. This is why foreign-backed elites divided the continent into weak separate republics. Easier to loot.2.7×05.2k1.2k212
37Oct 19, '20The return of democracy in Bolivia didn't come for free. So many young people gave their lives in the fight against the US coup. These are the heroes of Sacaba. In Senkata, Yapacan2.7×04.5k1.8k83
38Jul 12, '21'Cubans want liberty', 2k retweets for a video of...Buenos Aires city centre 🤦 Expect a lot more of this disinfo.2.7×05.5k1.3k85
39Mar 24, '22Why is Mexico not siding with the West against Russia? Context: Currently, the US & EU are attacking Mexico's policy of pursuing energy self-sufficiency (western corporations w2.6×03.9k1.5k241
40Apr 20, '22The world's largest Che Guevara mural is in Napoli 🇮🇹2.5×06.4k515101
41May 13, '22Statue of Che Guevara crushing an American eagle, all made with used car parts. El Alto, Bolivia 🇧🇴2.4×05.9k71583
42Apr 6, '20The British government has sent a letter formally thanking Cuba, for taking in the passengers stuck on the Braemar cruise ship. They call it a 'great act of solidarity' from the Cu2.4×03.4k1.9k52
43Oct 19, '20On a personal level, I can't believe this is finally happening, but it's what we've always known. Despite the massacres, despite the persecution, despite US intervention, the MAS i2.4×05.3k1k37
44Jul 25, '20The US oligarchy on Bolivia 👇2.3×03.7k1.5k80
45Jul 17, '21Just shockingly cruel. This woman came out to protest for her country, for the Revolution, but had her identity stolen *by the UN* and falsely portrayed as an anti-govt protester. 2.3×04.3k1.2k126
46Dec 19, '21This meme is real life for Chilean Presidential candidate José Antonio Kast 😬2.1×05.3k60567
47Jun 12, '21This giant banner has been placed on the mountains of Belfast, Ireland 🙌🇨🇺2.1×05.2k60822
48Feb 12, '22That time Evo Morales sat down next to Trump & Pompeo at the UN and just listed all their crimes.2.1×03.7k1k231
49Nov 21, '22England has colonised every single country in their World Cup group, and still they wanted to preach about human rights this tournament 😂2.0×04.1k94351
50Jun 15, '21Just a reminder that the candidate from the Communist Party of Chile is currently 1st in the polls for presidential elections this year. Incredible.2.0×05k53948
51Oct 9, '20Bolivian pro-coup channel TVU has made 16% look very big!2.0×04.3k76431
52Sep 26, '22As Cubans vote to legalise equal marriage, 'liberal' Europe elects an Italian fascist.2.0×04.9k55654
53Jul 8, '20Only one of these countries voted for a right-wing President. Yet here we are.2.0×04.3k78371
54May 14, '22Israel attacking funerals brings back memories of when the US-backed coup regime in Bolivia targeted the funeral procession of those they'd massacred the day before in El Alto.1.9×03.8k99775
56Jul 1, '20Evo Morales when he was a union leader. He was imprisoned, kidnapped, beaten, survived massacres, before reaching the presidency. The current coup leaders were probably on a shoppi1.8×03.4k1.1k67
57Nov 8, '20It's done. President Luis Arce. The Movement Towards Socialism is back in power. The Bolivia coup was defeated in just one year thanks to the sacrifice & struggle of the social1.8×03.5k87020
58Feb 21, '21Bolivia expelled the DEA and saw drug production go ⬇️. Meanwhile, Colombia has the largest number of US military bases in South America and the narcos are loving it!1.8×03.3k846163
59Oct 12, '20This is Bolivia. The US wants to rig the election and impose the guy in orange.1.7×03.4k88248
60Jun 15, '20President AMLO says that Mexico would send fuel to Venezuela, even though it violates US sanctions aimed at starving the Venezuelan people. He says of the US; 'no one has the right1.7×02.6k1k33
61Oct 13, '20This is Bolivia. Quite extraordinary, considering that an unelected regime tried to exterminate this party, through massacres, persecution, racism, hunger. It didn't work. These pe1.6×02.5k1.1k44
62Jul 12, '20Old video from Bolivia's state lithium company, 1 year before the coup. This plant is now closed and Añez's VP candidate has invited Elon Musk to produce batteries there ()1.6×02k1k159
63Sep 4, '211. Pedro Castillo appoints a Marxist intellectual as Foreign Minister 2. The military (navy) forces the govt to remove him, they install a new guy 3. New guy signs a deal with USAI1.6×02.6k90397
64Feb 11, '20Bolivia's Indigenous/Andean architecture. These 'Cholets' are product of the economic boom under Evo that redistributed wealth outside the white elite. Development with identity.1.5×02.4k861158
65Nov 3, '21Heroin is disappearing, just one month after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Imagine if the US closed its military bases in Colombia, Peru, and Honduras...1.5×02.8k79786
66Feb 3, '20Remember the Bolivian mayor who was kidnapped and tortured by pro-coup fascists? She's going to be a senate candidate for the MAS. They didn't manage to silence her.1.5×03k75029
67Nov 17, '20Leftist govts in Argentina & Bolivia are set to introduce a wealth tax to pay for post-Covid economic recovery. Neoliberal govts will push austerity & shock doctrine instea1.4×03k62934
68Oct 19, '20BREAKING: Evo Morales has announced that the MAS have won in the first round & also have a majority in congress. This is based on the party's own vote counting system. The regi1.4×03k62528
69Mar 24, '22I've been trying to tell westerners that global south countries do not share your view of Russia. Whether you agree or not, the western narrative is only accepted within colonial c1.4×02.5k73882
70Nov 27, '21American vs. Indigenous Bolivian union leader in Uyuni (where the lithium is located)1.4×03.3k434101
72Nov 2, '20Evo Morales returning to Bolivia is going to be most significant global event of this coming week. From his position as a union leader, he plans to speak to and guide social moveme1.4×03.1k49464
73Oct 19, '20Above all, the victory in Bolivia shows that organised movements can always win. Even against vastly powerful enemies like the US, even when being massacred & jailed. If you fi1.4×02.5k76929
74Nov 8, '20In Villazón, Bolivia, people are bursting with excitment for the return of Evo Morales tomorrow. He'll be crossing the border on foot into this town on the Bolivian side. "We're ba1.4×02.6k65033
75Aug 21, '20A 19 year old has informed Bolivia's Human Rights Ombudsman that police illegally arrested & assaulted her and forced her to testify that she's 'Evo's girlfriend'. If she refus1.4×02k850153
76Jul 25, '21Cuba has more Olympic medals than any other Latin American country, by quite a margin!1.3×02.9k48349
77Jan 7, '21Cuban gusanos, Iranian monarchists and Falun Gong cultists were all part of the mob today. Were there any other foreign CIA-backed groups involved?1.3×02.2k700114
78Jun 8, '21Both Fujimori and Bolivia's pro-coup opposition use the national football shirt as if it's their party uniform. Absurd populist nonsense, but their aim is to use facile symbols to 1.3×02.6k69131
79May 12, '206 months ago today, Jeanine Añez declared herself president of Bolivia. The massacres began shortly after. She claimed to be an 'interim president', however, she's fighting any att1.3×02k89937
80May 28, '21One of them privatized the country's oil, the other is trying to regulate the foreign companies that now have it.1.3×02.6k55667
81Mar 16, '22The EU welcomes Ukrainian refugees with opens arms. When Libyans were fleeing NATO bombs (and the ongoing total societal breakdown that followed) they were forced to drown at sea a1.3×02.6k63032
82Jul 12, '21Prominent 'thin blue line' flag at the anti-Cuba/pro-intervention rally in Miami today.1.2×02.3k45143
83Oct 19, '20I just spoke to Luis Arce, Bolivia's legitimate President. He characterised the victory in spiritual terms, "We've recovered our Ajayu (soul)"1.2×02.4k57745
84Apr 19, '22Western media 6 months ago.1.2×02.1k64666
85Sep 26, '22Cuba's referendum had higher turnout than Italy's general election. That should tell you where people have faith in their democracy and where they do not.1.2×02.7k42933
86Jan 24, '21Bill Gates is not trying to microchip you or control your mind, but he is a genuinely evil capitalist.1.1×02.1k61353
87May 13, '22Right, so, if a Latin American left president verbally criticises the mainstream media it's considered an "assault on the press". When Israel actually shoots a journalist in the he1.1×02.2k57032
88Mar 6, '22Venezuela's economy looking good for the first time since sanctions began. Monthly inflation is at the lowest rate since sanctions began (4.8% in Jan). Oil industry rebuilt thanks 1.1×02.2k43760
89May 24, '21Evo waiting for an apology from Europe for the time they downed his plane so as to help the US persecute a whistleblower.1.1×02.1k54220
90Sep 3, '21Those openly calling for the release of Jeanine Añez: Biden's Secretary of State Spain's fascist VOX party Keiko Fujimori Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Bolivia Interesting cl1.0×02.1k50734
91Nov 19, '22If you think Qatar is sexist and homophobic, wait till you find out who western governments have been sending weapons to in Syria 😳1.0×02.3k33442
92May 18, '21This was Evo Morales' welcome home rally in Chimoré, Cochabamba (November 2020). 1 million people celebrating the return of democracy.1.0×02.2k44122
93Oct 19, '20The people won, against all the odds, the people still won.1.0×02.1k45321
94Jun 7, '21The region of Peru that borders Bolivia. The people who've had to live under neoliberals while watching Evo govern from across Lake Titicaca.1.0×02.3k38120
95Jul 26, '21Lithium is the most important element in the world transition to renewable energy. The largest supplies will be controlled by progressive governments (Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Mex1.0×02k38364
96Jun 19, '22Victory for Gustavo Petro in Colombia will be the final nail in the coffin of the US war against Venezuela. Bad news for Uncle Sam.1.0×02.3k29533
97Sep 10, '22Messi would never1.0×02.6k12041
98Jan 27, '22The left returns to power in Honduras, 12 years after the pro-narco coup backed by Hillary Clinton. An incredible victory for democracy in the Americas.0.9×02.2k34544
99Jan 16, '21Pretty funny how McDonalds doesn't exist in Bolivia. Not because they were banned, but because they went bankrupt. They invested millions and no one wanted to eat it lol0.9×02.1k35125

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