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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.
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