Editorial:Bolivia's racist coup is trying to drown resistance in blood

[Judi Lynn]

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2019




Military police block the march of coca leaf producers, supporters of Evo Morales, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, yesterday


BOLIVIA’S coup regime seems determined to drown the opposition in blood. Protesters demonstrating for the return of elected president Evo Morales have been gunned down in La Paz and while marching on Cochabamba.

Accurate figures are hard to come by, since the Bolivian government is clamping down on free reporting. Journalists have been attacked by police; foreign reporters threatened with deportation, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

The IACHR and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights might sound the alarm over lethal force by the security forces, but “president” Jeanine Anez wants more of it: signing a decree exempting troops from criminal responsibility for anything they might do during “the restoration of order and public stability.”

Given that Anez is now notorious for a tweet in which she declared La Paz “no place for Indians” and demanded that indigenous peoples go back to the mountains or the plains, it is hardly surprising she is unconcerned at shedding indigenous blood.

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[ArizonaLib]

1. I have read comments about Bolivia's coup, referring to it as a people's action

This is not a picture of people taking their country back. This is a picture of a well funded (not by regular, working class, poor or indigenous families), but rather a powerful establishment that was voted out in an internationally accepted democratic election.

Protesting a coup that undoes a democratic election should be legal. The US should only be involved to promote honest election results not fascist coups. Anyone claiming to be close enough to CIA clandestine activity who feels free to vouch for any non US involvement would not be posting knowledge of or denials of recent such operations on a public forum such as this. We are not that stupid.