MSU Museum and Bolivian Mummies

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Turns out the Evo Morales was a good caretaker of Bolivian artifacts too...

Plagiarism allegation roils Michigan State, museum
Michael H. Hodges, The Detroit News Published 5:30 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2020 | Updated 5:58 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2020

A controversy tied to charges of plagiarism and a 500-year-old Bolivian mummy has erupted at Michigan State University.

William Lovis, an emeritus professor of anthropology and a former curator at the MSU Museum, has accused the museum director, Mark Auslander, of plagiarizing his work in the museum's regular monthly newsletter last February — an accusation a faculty investigative committee recently endorsed...

The faculty committee's final report, issued last week, concluded Auslander had engaged in "plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication," according to an excerpt forwarded to The Detroit News by Lovis, and also reprinted on the website of a nonprofit academic watchdog, retractionwatch.com, which broke the story.

The committee ordered Auslander to apologize, which he did in an email.

"He claimed that everything he did was inadvertent," Lovis said. "To me that sounds like, 'Oh, I overlooked that. It was an accident.' But you don’t plagiarize and falsify information. That’s not an accident, that’s a train wreck."

Melody Kindraka, an MSU spokeswoman, declined comment, saying: "At this time the university is evaluating the next steps."

The mummy in question, now back in Bolivia at the country's National Museum of Archaeology, was donated to the MSU Museum in 1890 by Fenton R. McCreery, an American diplomat in Chile. Included with the mummy were pouches, beads, plant remains and objects found with her. Ñusta was about 8 years old when she died.

After the ceremony at the Bolivian Embassy last year, the country's president at the time, Evo Morales, flew the little girl's remains home on the presidential plane.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/education/2020/02/06/michigan-state-university-museum-plagiarism-allegation/4681217002/

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[Judi Lynn]

1. You're right. He made sure the artifact was brought home under close guard. Very respectful.

He has always been concerned with preserving the history and the honor of the native Bolivians, and most Bolivians believe in him, all but the wealthy power-mad, racist, fascist European monstrous elite who've controlled the country until Evo Morales was elected by a vast majority.

It has been the total intention to overthrow him from before his election, even trying to sabotage him during George W. Bush's pResidency by manipulating top military officials to arrange for the US to remove powerful surface to air missiles, accomplished behind the sitting President during the Presidential campaign.

US Denies Removal of Bolivian Missiles Was Secret
October 29, 2009 01:11 PM
The United States denied Thursday that it removed anti-aircraft missiles from Bolivia without the knowledge of top officials in La Paz. The State Department says the operation was at the request of Bolivian authorities and in line with an Organization of American States resolution.

Officials here acknowledge that the United States removed a small number of MANPADS, man-portable air defense system, from Bolivia earlier this year as part of a broader effort to keep the shoulder launch missiles out of the hands of terrorists.

But they are denying charges from Bolivia, which figured in that country's presidential election campaign, that the operation was conducted without the knowledge of senior Bolivian officials.

Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, the victor in last Sunday's election, has alleged that the 28 Chinese-made missiles were spirited out of the country in June in an operation he described as international intervention.

He says he will press for an investigation of the affair and is quoted as saying he would punish those responsible and evict U.S. military advisers from the country.

https://www.voanews.com/archive/us-denies-removal-bolivian-missiles-was-secret

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US Denies Removal of Bolivian Missiles Was Secret by David Gollust
Article Posted: 12/23/2005
US Denies Removal of Bolivian Missiles Was Secret

The United States denied Thursday that it removed anti-aircraft missiles from Bolivia without the knowledge of top officials in La Paz. The State Department says the operation was at the request of Bolivian authorities and in line with an Organization of American States resolution.

Officials here acknowledge that the United States removed a small number of MANPADS, man-portable air defense system, from Bolivia earlier this year as part of a broader effort to keep the shoulder launch missiles out of the hands of terrorists.

But they are denying charges from Bolivia, which figured in that country's presidential election campaign, that the operation was conducted without the knowledge of senior Bolivian officials.

Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, the victor in last Sunday's election, has alleged that the 28 Chinese-made missiles were spirited out of the country in June in an operation he described as international intervention.

He says he will press for an investigation of the affair and is quoted as saying he would punish those responsible and evict U.S. military advisers from the country.

Questioned about the issue here, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said U.S. officials had worked with the Bolivian government on the removal of a small quantity of missiles he said were in a deteriorating condition.

He said the removal came at the request of the Bolivian government consistent with an O.A.S. resolution last June and said suggestions to the contrary are untrue:

"As for who was told in Bolivia about the action, you'll have to talk to the Bolivian government about that. As for these other allegations, it's just not true. This was done at the request of the Bolivian government, and it was done in partnership and consistent I would note with an Organization of American States resolution on the matter," he said.

More:
https://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm?articleid=74308

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These slimy actions continued until the Trump-initiated coup removed Evo Morales recently, and the fascist usurpers started going after the previous government figures to imprison them.

The people WILL regain their country.

Thank you for the article.