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Protestants increase political persecution in Bolivia
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Along with the approval of a transitory electoral law and the maneuvers to legitimize the coup d’etat, the de facto authorities today intensify the persecution against figures of the deposed government of Bolivia.

Hunting continues against MAS leaders

The Executive of the self-proclaimed interim president Jeanine Áñez ordered Monday through the Prosecutor’s Office the apprehension of the former Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana, following a complaint lodged against him for the alleged crimes of terrorism, instigation of crime and sedition.

The coup authorities blame Quintana for promoting acts of violence, in reference to the spontaneous popular demonstrations raised in several regions of the South American nation in rejection of the civic-military assault that broke the mandate of Evo Morales.

Just three days after the fateful November 10 in which Morales announced his resignation under duress from the Armed Forces, and to avoid fratricidal clashes in the country, the appointed government minister Arturo Murillo announced the beginning of a “hunt” against Juan Ramón Quintana , whose current whereabouts are unknown.

They try to criminalize the leaders of the Movement To Socialism

The arrest warrant against those who served as Minister of the Presidency of Evo Morales for three periods (2006-2010, 2012-2017, 2019), as well as ambassador to Cuba (2017-2019), confirms the claims of the coup plotters to criminalize the exponents of the previous government, including the deposed president. After the rupture of the constitutional order in Bolivia, Morales became the target of political and judicial persecution by the de facto authorities, which advanced a criminal proceeding against the indigenous leader for the alleged crimes of sedition and terrorism, among others.

The Jeanine Áñez administration based its accusation on the recording of an alleged telephone conversation between the dignitary and a social leader. “I denounce the de facto government in Bolivia for creating a montage with the intention of making me an international trial,” Morales said through the social network Twitter. “To the social movements that fight for life and democracy, the Prosecutor’s Office initiates ex officio investigations with assemblies, seeded evidence and manipulated recordings, but for 30 brothers killed in Bolivia by bullet, there is no investigation, responsible or detained,” he added.

Evo Morales government ministers jailed A criminal investigation court sent the vice president of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), Gerardo García, for alleged misuse of state property, “without evidence or legal arguments”, according to the complaint made by Morales in the networks social, in another obvious case of political persecution. According to analysts, everything points to a strategy of subtracting leadership and organization from progressive forces in the face of an eventual electoral process, still to be defined. “In Bolivia there will be elections, Áñez will prolong usurpation longer, persecute leaders (…), guarantees are requested for Morales that Áñez denies How to rearm forces and unity for the elections and win?” Said the Argentine sociologist and journalist Marco Teruggi.

Persecution of social leaders and criminalization of protests The persecution of the social leaders and the criminalization of the protests against the coup d’etat, contrasts with the impunity prevailing around the wave of violence unleashed by the right after the elections of October 20, as well as the brutal repression that left the At least 30 dead after the overthrow of Evo Morales.

A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard on Monday the testimony of victims in the town of Sacaba, Cochabamba, where the disproportionate use of force by the police and the Army – including the use of lethal weapons – caused the Death of nine people on November 15. The vice president of the Coordination of the six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, Andrónico Rodríguez, said it was a ‘massacre’, such as the one that occurred later in the town of El Alto, another of the main centers of popular resistance against the coup.

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