CarwilBJ’s avatarCarwilBJ’s Twitter Archive—№ 26,659

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    @NicoMason2 But the police didn't suppress indiscriminately, and they avoided lethal violence. Numerous reports of police falling back in the face of arson of polling installations, inter-protester confrontations…
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        @NicoMason2 Now if the government supplied or coordinated with the reported snipers in Oruro on November 7-8, that would fit your description. But I'm not aware of concrete evidence of that. It arrested pro-MAS shooters in Montero.
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          @NicoMason2 But, yes, I'm pretty touchy about blaming the MAS-IPSP / Morales for the shootings in Sacaba and Senkata, bc this has been the Áñez govt's victim-blaming narrative from the start.
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            @NicoMason2 Besides that, these mobilizations required zero impetus from leaders to happen. If Evo Morales had been inexplicably beamed up to USS Enterprise, there would be blockades in Chapare, a march on Cbba, and a blockade in Senkata in 5 days.
            1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
              @NicoMason2 And of course a gathering in the Ceja that marched on the Plaza San Francisco.
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                @NicoMason2 Realistic inside story of El Alto mobilizations post-November 9 here: library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/bolivien/16622.pdf