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The long road for justice for coup victims in Bolivia
The same right-wing officials who inflicted torture and sexual assault upon the Bolivian people now call for sanctions against the MAS government, writes CINDY FORSTER
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
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“Acts of torture were committed against them — the victims tell us that police as well as soldiers and even foreigners committed these acts.” — Yomar Sanchez, Quechua journalist from Potosi.
JEANINE ANEZ was scheduled to face her first day of trial in February, on accusations of staging a coup in Bolivia in 2019 that plunged the country into an inferno.
Traditional elites at the top of the justice system were among those who engineered the coup. Her trial was postponed.
The grounds for that postponement are troubling — attorneys had apparently miscalculated the required number of days to allow the defence to prepare their arguments.
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