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The Bolivian coup: Corbyn was right, Raab and Wintour wrong
Tories and liberals got it disastrously wrong over Bolivia in their rush to smear Labour, says SOLOMON HUGHES
JUSTICE SERVED: Jeanine Anez in her cell in Miraflores women’s jail in preventive detention since March 2021 on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy, for leading the the coup d’etat against then-president Evo Morales

IN 2019, Bolivia’s left-wing president, Evo Morales, of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) stood for re-election. 

Morales won most votes, but there were mass demonstrations by right-wing Bolivians against the result, inspired by claims of voting fraud. 

The Organisation of American States (OAS) ruled there had been “serious irregularities” in voting. 

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