BOLIVIA AND THE CIA IN REAL LIFE
Hello everyone! I recently bought Wildlands because it was on sale and started playing the story. I’m still near the beginning, but I found it pretty funny that the CIA/the Ghosts are working alongside a leftist indigenous movement against a narco organization. It reminded me of the 1980 'Cocaine Coup' in Bolivia. The contrast is pretty interesting: Wildlands basically flips the historical political alignment. In the real events around the García Meza coup, there were documented connections between the regime, far-right groups, drug traffickers, and networks linked to drug trafficking, while the United States was promoting anti-communism in Latin America. So seeing the CIA allied with a leftist indigenous movement in Wildlands gave me a bit of that 'wait, isn’t this almost the opposite of what happened?' moment.
Not trying to start a political argument. I just thought it was a funny historical coincidence that I hadn't noticed before playing the game. Has anyone else picked up on this?