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Oh jeez there’s that word again. Followers of “embarrassing racial slurs” and “our national shame” will remember the word “macaca” from the time it torpedoed the career of beloved Republican cracker Senator George Allen, dashing America’s hopes for a resurgent Confederacy once and for all. But did you know that in certain parts of the world, the term remains in fashion?

Meet Ruben Costas! The Governor of Bolivia’s whitest state and America’s top ally in the region, Costas survived Sunday’s recall vote and immediately called a press conference to announce to the world that Santa Cruz wouldn’t be pushed around by some “Macaco,” meaning Evo Morales, who is brown and therefore “monkey-like.” The entire campaign season, naturally, was an abominable bonfire of bigotry, punctuated with barely-coded racist discourse, recurring skinhead attacks, neo-Nazis campaigning for Costas, and, um, actual slavery.

God bless Otto at Inca Kola News for having the stomach to track this all this awfulness, and especially for calling out the inversely-gifted NYT douchenozzle Simon Romero for aiding the racists when he writes crap like this:

"Perhaps the most contentious issue has been Mr. Morales’s land reform project in Santa Cruz, the economically vibrant eastern department. Rich landowning families in the area have clashed with government officials seeking to distribute their landholdings to Aymara and Quechua Indian migrants."