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#BoliviaEnCrisis #PoliticalViolence After a very detailed review, it's clear that Evo Morales (and predecessor Carlos Mesa) ordered less deadly repression than nearly all of their predecessors…Permalink On twitter.com
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Yes, nine people per year died in social movements during the Evo Morales years, but the police and military claimed less than a quarter of those lives (33 altogether), and adding Morales' allies (13 deaths) doesn't change the overal picture that much.Permalink On twitter.com
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Meanwhile, opponents of the MAS killed 13 of their constituents as well, in 2007 and 2008.Permalink On twitter.com
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Fratricidal violence among miners, between miners and community members, and by partisans in El Alto were the worst deadly events, alongside the cooperative miners' strike in 2016.On twitter.com
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If a massacre means more than three people killed in one event, without taking deadly casaulties in return, the Bolivian military and police did not perpetrate a single massacre under Evo Morales. Yes, 33 deaths at their hands are still significant.Permalink On twitter.com
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Just below this threshold is the shooting at Hotel Las Americas, where the Bolivian military faced off with the Rosza paramilitaries. People dispute whether the latter posed a deadly threat or this was an extrajudicial execution.Permalink On twitter.com
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My draft white paper is nearly done. Will be called "Mass Protest and State Repression in Bolivian Political Culture: Putting the Gas War and the 2019 Crisis in Perspective." Cite my tweet for now.Permalink On twitter.com