Bolivian rights activist slams 'hypocrisy' of US over Anez case
SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2021
BOLIVIAN activists accused the United States of hypocrisy today after Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised “human rights concerns” over the arrest of coup president Jeanine Anez.
Mr Blinken accused the elected Bolivian government of “anti-democratic behaviour” for prosecuting Ms Anez and other ministers in the government installed by the 2019 US-backed military coup for the massacres of protesters they ordered.
Miriam Amancay Colque of the Bartolina Sisa Resistance said the US complained of far-right white supremacists storming the Capitol in Washington but supported their counterparts in Bolivia.
She slammed Washington’s support for the Anez regime of “fascists, racists, looters, arsonists and torturers.
“In just one year Anez and company murdered 37 indigenous brothers, wounded more than 800 and put thousands in jail,” she said. “Now that the coup plotters are out of power and being prosecuted for their crimes, following due process, the US comes out in defence of its partners who committed crimes against humanity.
“Nothing strange for the country whose police kills African Americans in a growing wave of racism.
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