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Raftina

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www.aljazeera.com

Bolivian ex-President Anez jailed for 10 years for mounting coup

Ex-President Jeanine Anez found guilty of orchestrating a coup that brought her to power in 2019.

A Bolivian court has found former President Jeanine Anez guilty of orchestrating a coup that brought her to power during a 2019 political crisis and sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

Anez, 54, was convicted on Friday of making "decisions contrary to the constitution" and of "dereliction of duty".

Anez maintains she is innocent. Her defence said it would appeal to international bodies to seek justice, and several sectors of the opposition planned marches to protest against the ruling.

The court also sentenced former Armed Forces commander Williams Kaliman and ex-police commander Vladimir Calderon to 10 years in prison. Four other former military chiefs received lesser sentences.

It sounded like the trial was procedurally rather problematic, though to what degree I am not able to say. This trial was only for the coup. There are other trials for her activities as president, like granting the military and police immunity for shooting protestors.
 

Akira86

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ohh, she of the ridiculously large bible?

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Some english-speaking shock-news sources back in 2019 said that the CIA backed this coup, and even Elon Musk implied this... but this wasn't mentioned during the trial. I would think that this should have come up if it were true (or even speculated at being true). The only country accused of getting involved was Argentina.
 
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Raftina

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Yes, she was the giant bible president.

Interestingly, one of her defense seems to be "I had to take the presidency to fill a power vaccuum because the military and the police already conducted a coup. Otherwise things would get much worse." That is, on the face, a plausible excuse--at least without looking at the context. For example, she did things like granting immunity to the military and police for shooting protestors and implementing significant changes in policy (which a mere interim government should not be doing).
 

BlackLagoon

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Some english-speaking shock-news sources back in 2019 said that the CIA backed this coup, and even Elon Musk implied this... but this wasn't mentioned during the trial. I would think that this should have come up if it were true (or even speculated at being true). The only country accused of getting involved was Argentina.
I wouldn't be surprised if Russian controlled accounts were pushing this. They certainly loved portraying Euromaidan and the various color revolutions in Eastern Europe as CIA plots, and Morales seems quite Russian friendly (he was happy to discuss how the Ukraine conflict is the US and NATOs fault with Sputnik News).
 

Afrikan

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Damn shame first thought in my mind was "wow, she got off easy". Certain other countries, it would have been curtains for her.
 

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Rot in jail, you racist pig. Hope the other trials add more years to her prison time.
 

rataplein

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I wouldn't be surprised if Russian controlled accounts were pushing this. They certainly loved portraying Euromaidan and the various color revolutions in Eastern Europe as CIA plots, and Morales seems quite Russian friendly (he was happy to discuss how the Ukraine conflict is the US and NATOs fault with Sputnik News).

"russians I knew it was them! even when it was the CIA I knew it was them!"
 

JJD

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Bolsonaro can't stop talking about this. He is scared shitless of going to jail to the point that he asked Biden for help against Lula last week at the summit lol
 

Dr. Mario

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I know too little of Bolivian politics to say anything authoritatively, but granting Morales amnesty and then sentencing her to 10 years does reek a bit of political scheming?
 

keku

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I know too little of Bolivian politics to say anything authoritatively, but granting Morales amnesty and then sentencing her to 10 years does reek a bit of political scheming?

Yes, it is. The left and right in Latin America are in a constant tug of war to sink a country and loot its population, backed by Russia and US respectively
 
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LMAO at some of you people, even with the proven history of coups and meddling the US and the CIA have in Latin America still defending the US and going "both sides"
 

keku

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LMAO at some of you people, even with the proven history of coups and meddling the US and the CIA have in Latin America still defending the US and going "both sides"

I'm from Argentina, the left and the right we have are a farce. It is both sides that are fucking my country, they should both fuck off with their meddling
 
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I'm from Argentina, the left and the right we have are a farce. It is both sides that are fucking my country, they should both fuck off with their meddling
We're talking about a woman who headed a government responsible for many massacres, a woman who referred to indigenous people as monkeys and who allied with far right militia.

It was clear from the beginning where the US lied with regards to the coup (no quotemarks needed).

So no it's as far away from a both sides kind of issue as possible.
 

ibyea

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Regardless of whether the CIA was involved or not, there was clear malfeasance from the US end of things when the OAS sowed doubt on the election.
 

keku

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We're talking about a woman who headed a government responsible for many massacres, a woman who referred to indigenous people as monkeys and who allied with far right militia.

It was clear from the beginning where the US lied with regards to the coup (no quotemarks needed).

So no it's as far away from a both sides kind of issue as possible.

She should be in jail, but it is a political scheme nonetheless and that is what I was answering.
 

louisacommie

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I wouldn't be surprised if Russian controlled accounts were pushing this. They certainly loved portraying Euromaidan and the various color revolutions in Eastern Europe as CIA plots, and Morales seems quite Russian friendly (he was happy to discuss how the Ukraine conflict is the US and NATOs fault with Sputnik News).
I don't know how Mueller brain poisoned someone has to be to think the intelligence community funding anti-left movements in the global south comes from Putin's porn bot accounts.


2016 man
 

Arkanim94

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I wouldn't be surprised if Russian controlled accounts were pushing this. They certainly loved portraying Euromaidan and the various color revolutions in Eastern Europe as CIA plots, and Morales seems quite Russian friendly (he was happy to discuss how the Ukraine conflict is the US and NATOs fault with Sputnik News).
russian controlled foreign actor wikipedia.
 

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Regardless of whether the CIA was involved or not, there was clear malfeasance from the US end of things when the OAS sowed doubt on the election.
The OAS sucks, and if it were for me, it would disappear. It is just another shithole full of corrupt pieces of shit. That being said, it can't be denied Morales was subverting the Bolivian constitution and using his cronies inside the supreme court to run for reelection again. It isn't out of the realm of possibilities he did fraud to get himself reelected.
 

Planx

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Some english-speaking shock-news sources back in 2019 said that the CIA backed this coup, and even Elon Musk implied this... but this wasn't mentioned during the trial. I would think that this should have come up if it were true (or even speculated at being true). The only country accused of getting involved was Argentina.
Well let's just see if there's any news reports about the United States, Argentina and Bolivia from that time...

Bolivian armed forces head Williams Kaliman on November 10 "suggested" that Morales resign. That was the coup de grace. Within three days, Kaliman himself had resigned and moved to the United States. Sullkata M. Quilla of the Latin American Center for Strategic Analysis explains that Kaliman and other military chiefs each had received $1 million and that top police officiers received $500,000 apiece. U.S. Chargee d'affaires Bruce Williamson allegedly arranged for monetary transactions that took place in Argentina's Jujuy Province – immediately south of Bolivia – under the auspices of Governor Gerardo Morales. The story first appeared on the website tvmundus.com.ar.

According to the respected Argentinean journalist Stella Calloni, Ivanka Trump arrived in Jujuy on September 4-5 ostensibly to honor a small group of women entrepreneurs. Some "2,500 federal agents" and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan accompanied her. At the same time, Governor Gerardo Morales was informed that the United States would be delivering $400 million supposedly to pay for improvements to a big highway in Argentina. Cattaloni suggests that a freight train running through Jujuy en route to Santa Cruz, the center of anti- Morales plotting in Bolivia, was transporting military equipment to opposition groups.
There's media speculation as to how Governor Morales may have facilitated the transfer of U.S. money to Luis Camacho, leader of the coup and head of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee. He may have done so in Santa Cruz, where he visited on September 4, or in Jujuy Province where Camacho may have showed up later that day or the next.


Ah, well I'm sure this is nothing. After all why wouldn't a country that was just coup'd openly accuse the country that facilitated that coup? They totally wouldn't try to launch another coup, right?
theintercept.com

Bolivian Ex-Minister of Defense Plotted a Second Coup Using U.S. Mercenaries

Leaked phone recordings and emails reveal a top official was prepared to use foreign troops to block Bolivia’s left-wing MAS party from returning to power.
BOLIVIAN EX-MINISTER OF DEFENSE PLOTTED A SECOND COUP USING U.S. MERCENARIES
Leaked phone recordings and emails reveal a top official was prepared to use foreign troops to block Bolivia's left-wing MAS party from returning to power.
Hm, nevertheless it's probably Russia
 

BlackLagoon

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I don't know how Mueller brain poisoned someone has to be to think the intelligence community funding anti-left movements in the global south comes from Putin's porn bot accounts.
Mueller? Lol, my comment came from at my disgust of Morales' willingness to chat with Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik and throw his implicit support behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their massacring of its people and how they're trying to facilitate a famine in Africa and the Middle East to force the west to back off etc. I think it raises a legitimate question about how long he's been a useful tool for the Russians.

A list of things like 50+ years ago, and most of them merely seem to be political endorsements of actions done by internal actors, rather than the US actually causing something to happen through direct covert intervention - which was the implication I reacted to here.
 

cDNA

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Muller also tricked Putin to support the leftist Bolsonaro, Marina Le pen and Victor Orban
 

Planx

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Mueller? Lol, my comment came from at my disgust of Morales' willingness to chat with Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik and throw his implicit support behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their massacring of its people and how they're trying to facilitate a famine in Africa and the Middle East to force the west to back off etc. I think it raises a legitimate question about how long he's been a useful tool for the Russians.


A list of things like 50+ years ago, and most of them merely seem to be political endorsements of actions done by internal actors, rather than the US actually causing something to happen through direct covert intervention - which was the implication I reacted to here.
Ivanka along with the rest of the Trump presidency was a useful tool for the Russians. Ivanka traveled to Argentina on short notice before the coup with 2,500 Federal agents, an Undersecretary of State, almost half a billion dollars in aid, and supposedly met with people later involved in the coup.

I'm pretty sure this means the coup was a Russian plot
 
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Mueller? Lol, my comment came from at my disgust of Morales' willingness to chat with Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik and throw his implicit support behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their massacring of its people and how they're trying to facilitate a famine in Africa and the Middle East to force the west to back off etc. I think it raises a legitimate question about how long he's been a useful tool for the Russians.

Morales should have talked to the totally not mouth pieces that are CNN/MSNBC and fox news.
Remind me again how many times those news outlets towed the line of regime change?

A list of things like 50+ years ago, and most of them merely seem to be political endorsements of actions done by internal actors, rather than the US actually causing something to happen through direct covert intervention - which was the implication I reacted to here.

That only speaks to the amount of regime change attempts and success the US had in Latin America in total because you know what? Many also took place in the last 20 years. Or does Venezuela not count?
 

BlackLagoon

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Ivanka along with the rest of the Trump presidency was a useful tool for the Russians. Ivanka traveled to Argentina on short notice before the coup with 2,500 Federal agents, an Undersecretary of State, almost half a billion dollars in aid, and supposedly met with people later involved in the coup.
The idea that Ivanka was chosen for some secret mission and somehow managed to bring a small army with her on her South American publicity trip is nonsensical. If there was any substance to it it would have been presented at the trial.

I'm pretty sure this means the coup was a Russian plot
Take your strawman somewhere else. I never said Russia was involved in the coup, merely that promoting conspiracy theories about US involvement is something they like to do.

Morales should have talked to the totally not mouth pieces that are CNN/MSNBC and fox news.
Remind me again how many times those news outlets towed the line of regime change?
Lets not get away from the main issue here - his support of the Russian massacre of the Ukrainian people. But choosing to speak to a Russian state propaganda outlet makes it clear where his alliances lie.
 
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Moppeh

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Mueller? Lol, my comment came from at my disgust of Morales' willingness to chat with Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik and throw his implicit support behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their massacring of its people and how they're trying to facilitate a famine in Africa and the Middle East to force the west to back off etc. I think it raises a legitimate question about how long he's been a useful tool for the Russians.


A list of things like 50+ years ago, and most of them merely seem to be political endorsements of actions done by internal actors, rather than the US actually causing something to happen through direct covert intervention - which was the implication I reacted to here.

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Most of those are not just endorsements lol. The majority involve support from the USA.
 
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Lets not get away from the main issue here - his support of the Russian massacre of the Ukrainian people. But choosing to speak to a Russian state propaganda outlet makes it clear where his alliances lie.
The main issue is one of the fascist coup leaders getting some semblance of fucking justice after massacres that the Bolivian people suffered. But you chose to ignore those and go "morales was no angel"
 

ultraluna

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Mueller? Lol, my comment came from at my disgust of Morales' willingness to chat with Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik and throw his implicit support behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their massacring of its people and how they're trying to facilitate a famine in Africa and the Middle East to force the west to back off etc. I think it raises a legitimate question about how long he's been a useful tool for the Russians.


A list of things like 50+ years ago, and most of them merely seem to be political endorsements of actions done by internal actors, rather than the US actually causing something to happen through direct covert intervention - which was the implication I reacted to here.
USA was involved in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment in 2016, 6 years ago. Juan Guaido was a decade-long american project. I don't know where you're pulling Russia from.
 

Planx

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The idea that Ivanka was chosen for some secret mission and somehow managed to bring a small army with her on her South American publicity trip is nonsensical. If there was any substance to it it would have been presented at the trial.
Why is it unreasonable they wouldn't present direct evidence of US involvement for fear of US retaliation? Why was Mike Pompeo pumping his fist and celebrating?
Pompeo, in January of this year, visited OAS's Washington office and heaped praise on the organization for the role its audit played in forcing Morales from the country — a move which Pompeo heralded by invoking the long Orwellian U.S. tradition of depicting pro-U.S. military coups as "pro-democracy":
More recently, the OAS honored the former Bolivian government's request to conduct an audit of the disputed election results. The probe conducted uncovered proof of massive and systemic fraud. It helped end the violence that had broken out over the election dispute. It helped the Bolivian Congress unanimously establish a date and conditions for a new election. And it honored – importantly, it honored the Bolivian people's courageous demand for a free and fair election, and for democracy.
It's a clandestine attempt to influence and shape a foreign government, it's not all going to be out there in black and white.



Lets not get away from the main issue here - his support of the Russian massacre of the Ukrainian people. But choosing to speak to a Russian state propaganda outlet makes it clear where his alliances lie.
Unlike the US media outlets that threw praise at Jeanine Anez, who then oversaw massacres of indigenous Bolivian people?
www.trtworld.com

Report finds Bolivian security forces committed 'massacres' in 2019

The report also highlights the deep political polarisation surrounding Morales’ changing of the constitution to seek a fourth term, deep-seated racism against his Indigenous followers and traditionally weak institutions as aggravating factors.

Russia wants to air things that make the US look bad. The US supporting a coup makes the US look bad. A Russia media outlet airing the story is not evidence that it did not happen.
 
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Pandaman

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The OAS sucks, and if it were for me, it would disappear. It is just another shithole full of corrupt pieces of shit. That being said, it can't be denied Morales was subverting the Bolivian constitution and using his cronies inside the supreme court to run for reelection again. It isn't out of the realm of possibilities he did fraud to get himself reelected.
Funny you say that because literally the only evidence I've ever seen for Moralles 'stacking' the court came after the ruling he could run again. Even that wasn't stacking it was the opposition boycotting the public election of judges.
 

IrishNinja

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always mixed feelings as a prison abolitionist with these things, but it's still nice to see. may her suffering be endless, as well as those with her

Bolsonaro can't stop talking about this. He is scared shitless of going to jail to the point that he asked Biden for help against Lula last week at the summit lol

god, one can only hope
felt like we got so close when he had the rona too

Muller also tricked Putin to support the leftist Bolsonaro, Marina Le pen and Victor Orban

muellers playing 4d chess here, clearly lining up a council of supreme leftists, only missing modi, erdogan and duterte
 

Arkanim94

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It funny how the USA can literally confirm "yes, we trained death squads to advance our political interests in South America, pretty dope" and it being described as "simple endorsement".
 

Ionic

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It funny how the USA can literally confirm "yes, we trained death squads to advance our political interests in South America, pretty dope" and it being described as "simple endorsement".

When we have popular newspapers that spent months in 2019 and before calling Morales third term run a coup but then suddenly switched to neutral words like "ouster" when the military and police forced him and the entire presidential line of succession to leave the country until the line of succession got to a right wing, religious, US friendly demagogue in Áñez, you can only shake your head solemnly at people who are still confused. Within days of Áñez coming to office she began improving relations to the United States, removed Bolivia from the Bolivarian Alliance, and immediately recognized Guaido as Venezuela's president. It's naked as hell as far as I'm concerned, and I'm confident in a few decades this will all be "obvious" to everybody and you won't be able to find people who said they believed all those articles in the news. This stuff is so simple but I still have people in my life clinging to a wall covered in newspaper clippings and connective strings about the Mueller investigation who can hardly read more than a single WaPo article about South America a year acting incredulous.
 

BlackLagoon

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Most of those are not just endorsements lol. The majority involve support from the USA.
It may be that the in-depth articles support that, but summaries on the page I was reacting to do not.

USA was involved in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment in 2016, 6 years ago. Juan Guaido was a decade-long american project. I don't know where you're pulling Russia from.
You're going to have to specify exactly what you're referring to regarding Rouseff. As for Guaido, most countries generally consider it valid to provide support to the pro-democratic opposition in authoritarian regimes.

Why is it unreasonable they wouldn't present direct evidence of US involvement for fear of US retaliation? Why was Mike Pompeo pumping his fist and celebrating?
Fear of what? The Biden administration retaliating for embarrassing Trump? Instead of, I don't know, celebrating getting more dirt to throw at him and the Republicans in the elections?

And really, you're talking about a conspiracy of thousands of people, not only the federal agents and Trump officials, but the ones who provided transport, logistics, funding, etc. And are we really to believe these are all staying quiet? That somehow in spite of being a leaky incompetent mess, the Trump admin managed to keep all this completely quiet? Even years after they left power, and everyone and their dog writing tell-all books? That's like Trump stolen election level of conspiracy-mongering.

Funny you say that because literally the only evidence I've ever seen for Moralles 'stacking' the court came after the ruling he could run again. Even that wasn't stacking it was the opposition boycotting the public election of judges.
Lets not forget he'd previously done the exact same "I changed the constitution so now I get to run again" schtick that Putin did.

But really, you can argue to the sun goes down that Morales had court approval and followed the letter of the law, but he still undoubtedly violated its intention - that the president leaves after two terms. He did this multiple times. And when you do that it's not exactly surprising that other forces in society decide they don't have to follow the rules either.
 
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Fear of what? The Biden administration retaliating for embarrassing Trump? Instead of, I don't know, celebrating getting more dirt to throw at him and the Republicans in the elections?

Re the elections : Americans do not give two shits about what their republican or democrat government does abroad.

Re humiliating trump : the Democrats are another side of the same coin when it comes to aggressive foreign policy, we're still waiting for the Obama admin's indictment of Iraq war criminals...
 

Planx

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Fear of what? The Biden administration retaliating for embarrassing Trump? Instead of, I don't know, celebrating getting more dirt to throw at him and the Republicans in the elections?

And really, you're talking about a conspiracy of thousands of people, not only the federal agents and Trump officials, but the ones who provided transport, logistics, funding, etc. And are we really to believe these are all staying quiet? That somehow in spite of being a leaky incompetent mess, the Trump admin managed to keep all this completely quiet? Even years after they left power, and everyone and their dog writing tell-all books? That's like Trump stolen election level of conspiracy-mongering.
Some House Democrats are trying to do that
www.thenation.com

House Democrats Want to Know the Truth About the Bolivian Coup

The OAS’s false accusations led to the expulsion of Evo Morales. Now members of Congress want the State Department to investigate.

The OAS absolutely fabricated their report on the Bolivian elections to set the ground for the coup. Supporting actions around this planned coup are not out of the question. If the Biden presidency is friendlier to the democratically elected government of Bolivia, then the State Department should be investigating this.


Like the strategy behind the coup was almost the EXACT same as the attempted 2020 Trump coup.

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/04/bolivia-coup-trump-mit-evo-morales/ said:
As the votes were counted on election night, Morales was ahead as expected. The question was whether he would win by enough to avoid a runoff, which in Bolivia is triggered when a candidate wins by a margin of fewer than 10 points. In an unofficial tally, Morales led Mesa by 7.9 points, giving the opposition hope for a second round. But when the official count was released, Morales had won by 10.6 points. There would be no runoff.

Without evidence, the opposition immediately leveled fraud charges. It was backed up the next day by the Organization of American States, the powerful hemispheric cooperation organization based in Washington, D.C.

"The OAS Mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results revealed after the closing of the polls," read the OAS's incendiary statement. Protesters took to the streets; the military called for Morales to step down; and the opposition installed a new leader, Jeanine Áñez, after three weeks of unrest. Far to Mesa's right, Áñez assumed office and swiftly attempted to eliminate the sense of enfranchisement for Indigenous people that the Morales government had brought. While 14 out of 16 members of Morales' first Cabinet were Indigenous, Áñez did not appoint a single Indigenous person to her first Cabinet. In the two months before assuming office, she had tweeted that Morales was a "poor Indian" and implied that Indigenous people cannot wear shoes. When she reached the presidency, she declared that "the Bible has returned to the palace."

The coup, roughly the same play President Donald Trump would attempt a year later, was complete.


It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck
 

Serpens007

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I know too little of Bolivian politics to say anything authoritatively, but granting Morales amnesty and then sentencing her to 10 years does reek a bit of political scheming?

Why would giving Amnesty to Morales be against anything?

One can argue that he shouldn't have run, but there was no fraud. He won the elections fair and square. His party won the following election by an even larger margin.

The coup didn't work this time, and I'm happy at least in some places in South America there are justice serve against these sedicious people.
 
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The OAS sucks, and if it were for me, it would disappear. It is just another shithole full of corrupt pieces of shit. That being said, it can't be denied Morales was subverting the Bolivian constitution and using his cronies inside the supreme court to run for reelection again. It isn't out of the realm of possibilities he did fraud to get himself reelected.
While I agree with your assessment of the OAS and Morales, I think the talk about Morales' behavior and the CIA mainly serve to distract from the bigger issue: The so-called free world raced to legitimize and support a coup because it installed a right-wing, West friendly president. Note that I am not accusing you of doing this. I quoted you because your post gives a succinct summary from which I can continue.

There are a few points I want to make, all of which are independent of the legitimacy of Morales' 2019 run.

1. The military and police deposed Morales in a coup.
Morales' term started in January 2015. It was scheduled to end in January 2020. In November 2019, the military, the police, and right-wing death squads forced Morales, his vice president, and his entire party in the legislature to resign and/or flee for their physical safety. That was before the end of Morales' term. There are methods of removing a president who has violated the constitution. It does not involve threats of physical safety from the military, the police, and right-wing death squads.

2. Jeanine Anez was illegitimately installed by the coup.
Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that it was legitimate for the military, the police, and right-wing death squads to force Morales to resign--without attempting the constitutional process of impeachment and despite Morales agreeing to new elections. The assumption is wrong, but I assume it to illustrate why the accusations against Morales do not legitimize the Anez regime.

The coup also forced out Morales' vice president (who was also in the middle of a legitimately elected term), and forced almost the entire MAS members of legislature to flee for safety. This created two problems. The first problem was that the legitimate successor was forced to flee for safety, which was how Anez apparently ended up in the line of succession. The second problem was that the legislature was left without a quorum, so it was unable to confirm a successor. Despite these constitutional defects, Jeanine Anez claimed the presidency.

3. The so-called free world raced to legitimize Anez
Despite the fact that a coup deposed Morales (before the end of his legitimately elected term) and installed Anez, the so-called free world immediately recognized Anez's regime. One might think there would be some hesitation and some mealy mouthed call for legal analysis of the succession first--or better yet, call for the appointment of person in the rightful line of succession. Instead, there was a concerted effort to downplay the coup. This behavior is entirely unsurprising: Bolivia's newly installed authoritarian leader is friendly to the West, while Morales' party is not.
 
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kradical

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I wouldn't be surprised if Russian controlled accounts were pushing this. They certainly loved portraying Euromaidan and the various color revolutions in Eastern Europe as CIA plots, and Morales seems quite Russian friendly (he was happy to discuss how the Ukraine conflict is the US and NATOs fault with Sputnik News).

lmao