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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
DIANE ABBOTT says the socialist island has played an outsized role in the fight against racism worldwide — we must stand by it as Trump tries to choke it to death
GAWAIN LITTLE looks at the causes of the far-right resurgence and explains how the General Federation of Trade Unions is helping to combat it
As delegates from the north-east, Yorkshire & Humber meet this weekend in Durham, TUC regional secretary DAVE PIKE speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges ahead
Prison Officers’ Association general secretary and TUC president STEVE GILLAN looks at what’s missing from the Employment Rights Act, and why we need further legislation
Militarism and war cannot be separated from ‘bread and butter issues,’ argues MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS — opposing them is central to trade unionism
“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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