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      Western Media Defends US-Backed Bolivian Coup Leader After Arrest

      Western Media Defends US-Backed Bolivian Coup Leader After Arrest

      Brutal dictators supported by Washington have no reason to doubt that establishment journalists and big NGOs will try very hard to keep them out of jail.

      Joe Emersberger
      Mar 24, 2021

      One can imagine an editor of the London-based Guardian (3/17/21) shaking her head sadly as she typed the headline: "Cycle of Retribution Takes Bolivia's Ex-President From Palace to Prison Cell." The subhead told readers, "Jeanine Anez's government once sought to jail the country's former leader Evo Morales for terrorism and sedition--now she faces the same charges."

      The Guardian article by Tom Phillips wants us to lament an alleged incapacity of Bolivian governments to stop persecuting opponents once they take office. We are told that Anez's government did it, and that now the government of President Luis Arce (elected in a landslide win on October 18, 2020) is also doing it.

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      Far-Right Bolivia Coup Leader Jeanine Anez Arrested on Terrorism, Sedition Charges

      Far-Right Bolivia Coup Leader Jeanine Anez Arrested on Terrorism, Sedition Charges

      "The authors and accomplices of the dictatorship that looted the economy and attacked life and democracy in Bolivia" must "be investigated and punished," said Evo Morales, the former president.

      Jake Johnson
      Mar 12, 2021

      Far-right Bolivian politician Jeanine Anez was arrested Saturday on charges of terrorism and sedition for her role in the 2019 military coup that ousted former President Evo Morales and ushered in a brutal regime that violently repressed largely Indigenous pro-democracy protesters.

      In November of 2019--days after Morales was forced by the nation's military to resign and flee the country over bogus claims of election fraud--Anez declared herself the interim president of Bolivia in violation of the country's constitution. The Trump administration, then in power in the U.S., applauded the military coup as it drew global condemnation.

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      After Right-Wing Coup Effort in DC, Venezuela Offers Sympathy for US Suffering What 'It Has Generated' Elsewhere

      After Right-Wing Coup Effort in DC, Venezuela Offers Sympathy for US Suffering What 'It Has Generated' Elsewhere

      The government of President Nicolás Maduro condemned "the political polarization and the spiral of violence" fueled by a "deep" political and social crisis in the U.S.

      Kenny Stancil
      Jan 05, 2021

      While Democratic and Republican lawmakers, political pundits, and angered U.S. citizens of all stripes rightly condemned Wednesday's violent coup attempt by a pro-Trump mob in the nation's capital, at least one foreign government offered its sympathy to the victims of the assault while also pointing out that U.S.-backed efforts to subvert democracy abroad are all too common.

      In the wake of the day's deadly mayhem at the U.S. Capitol building, the Venezuelan government issued a public statement expressing "concern with the acts of violence that are taking [place] in the city of Washington, D.C."

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