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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
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
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Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
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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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