Military coup in Bolivia removes president Morales.

BREAKING: Bolivia's courts have ordered the arrest of former coup President Jeanine Añez and her most senior Ministers, as they are considered a 'flight risk'.

This comes as part of the investigation into the US-backed coup in 2019.

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Bolivian police say they found Jeanine Añez hiding *in a box* after hours searching the city of Trinidad, Beni.

When she was not at her home, many feared that she had fled to Brazil. However, she was still in her city, she had failed to leave in time.

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dudalb said:

Forgive me if I am skeptical of a publication calling itself "The Jacobin" really supports democracy.

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The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has released a report where they concluded that the events that took place in Bolivia in 2019 were a coup d’état against re-elected President Evo Morales.

One of the concluding paragraphs states that the massacres during Jeanine Añez’s de facto government left dozens of dead and many injured civilians.
In Sacaba, in the central city of Cochabamba and in Senkata, in El Alto, at least 22 people died and hundreds were injured as a consequence of an excessive use of the public force under an immunity decree, the report reads.
Some sectors of the Bolivian Armed and Police Forces plied to those who supported the coup and, even worse, used their hierarchy and weapons to attack the people. Indigenous people and the most underprivileged sectors were the main victims of the massacres, while in a session of the Senate (without the required quorum), Jeanine Añez was appointed de facto president, a position that was later confirmed in the Legislative Assembly, without the required quorum, again.
While this was happening, OAS Secretary General and coup promoter Luis Almagro clapped about it and made happy those who gave him the order from Washington, because the staged farce was “successfully carried out.”
A reflection on Bolivia (Granma.cu, Sep 20, 2021)

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dann said:

Not much in the news about this:

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dann said:

For you, probably nothing.

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dann said:

Since the media in most Western countries preferred news claiming that the coup was justified, it is not at all strange that the same media is not particularly interested in news showing that it wasn't.
This is the only reason why it doesn't 'call for widespread reporting in the news'.

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dann said:

Since the media in most Western countries preferred news claiming that the coup was justified, it is not at all strange that the same media is not particularly interested in news showing that it wasn't.

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A STATE DEPARTMENT report obtained by The Intercept shows the Biden administration continuing to embrace claims of electoral fraud that opened the door for a right-wing takeover of the Bolivian government in 2019. Mandated by the most recent omnibus spending bill, the report delivered to Congress mirrors the posture the Trump administration pushed three years ago, when it sought to cement the replacement of Bolivia’s Indigenous socialist president Evo Morales with the country’s right-wing Christian senator Jeanine Áñez.

The report relies almost entirely on the conclusions of the Organization of American States, which found in a November 2019 audit that a “series of willful actions were taken to alter the results” of the election — and which proved key to the coup that followed. The OAS’s initial analysis has since been discredited by multiple statistical models, nonprofit revues, a peer reviewed academic study, and news outlets including the New York Times and the Washington Post, yet continues to be endorsed by the State Department. When the analysis was first published on November 10, 2019, it helped transform street protests into a right-wing seizure of power.
Biden State Department Embraces Flawed Logic for Bolivian Coup in Leaked Report (The Intercept, Oct 12, 2022)

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March in Bolivia against coup attempts
Behind the screen of defending a protagonist of the 2019 coup, his followers seek the destabilization of the country
Marchan en Bolivia contra intentos golpistas (Juventud Rebelde, Jan 12, 2023)

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