Bolivia Adds Charges Against the Leader of the 2019 Coup

[Judi Lynn]

Jeanine Añez, La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 15, 2019. | Photo: EFE

Published 19 May 2021

Jeanine Añez broke her oath of defending the Constitution when she self-declared president of the Senate and "interim president" of her country.

The Prosecutor's Office expanded the judicial investigations against Jeanine Añez to include charges of breach of her duties as a senator through arbitrary acts that violated the Bolivian constitution and laws.

The new investigation will be added to the process over terrorism, sedition, and conspiracy crimes committed during her administration (2019-2020).

"When taking office as Senator in 2015, Añez pledged to comply and enforce the law; however, she broke the oath because she acted illegally by proclaiming herself president without a corresponding quorum and a lawful mandate," lawyer Victor Nina explained.

More:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Adds-Charges-Against-the-Leader-of-the-2019-Coup-20210519-0015.html







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Bible vs indigenous beliefs at issue in Bolivia
By BRADY McCOMBS
January 24, 2020


LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia’s new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country’s indigenous religious beliefs like never before.

“The Bible has returned to the palace,” bellowed Jeanine Añez as she walked into the presidential palace where Morales had jettisoned the bible from official government ceremonies and replaced with acts honoring the Andean earth deity called the Pachamama. The conservative evangelical senator, from a region where people often scoff at Pachamama beliefs, thrust the Bible above her head and flashed a beaming smile.

While Bolivians of all walks of life are deeply divided on Morales’ legacy, his replacement, a lawyer and opposition leader who wants to make the Bible front and center in public life, is reigniting deep-rooted class and racial divisions at a time of great uncertainty in the Andean nation, where 6 in 10 identify as descendants of native peoples.

“It’s the same as 500 years ago when the Spanish came and the first thing they showed the indigenous people was the Bible,” said Jose Saravia, a civil engineer from La Paz. “It seems to me like the same thing is happening again.”

More:
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-la-paz-caribbean-religion-weekend-reads-36976d450b3596c2951bd8ed2236311c

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Actually, the first thing the Spanish invaders did was show the Native Bolivian people how quickly they could kill them, force them to dig silver or gold until they died of exhaustion or abuse, or illness, or starvation, or disease, as they instantly controlled the people, and ground them into the dust under their slimy boots.

Their descendants still treat the descendants of the original people viciously as if they don't really have a right to live in their own land, referring to them as, in Spanish, of course, "f***ing Indians", "llama abortions", etc.

Bolivians were not allowed to vote or even walk on the sidewalks until after a revolution in 1953, and today often walk for many, many miles to reach places where they may vote. Things haven't been that much better for the original Bolivians until the first Native Bolivian was elected, Evo Morales, who they conspired to overthrow, even planned to assassinate repeatedly. Each time he was somehow protected by Bolivians working to protect him.

In the meantime, the European descended fascists have not broken with their pattern of sadistic violence, and acts of hatred against the people of the country.

That's why Bolivian people, for justice's sake, absolutely need human leaders.