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  1. Email chain reveals that Áñez government started criminal investigation of MIT researchers @Master0fNull @JohnCuriel14 over their statistical analysis of 2019 Bolivian election. @theintercept/1389631047512567808
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      The Bolivian foreign ministry had denied suggestions that such a case would be opened in March 2020. Evidently the government changed course. google.com/amp/s/pruebas.la-razon.bo/nacional/2020/03/05/la-cancilleria-descarta-juicio-contra-autores-del-analisis-que-cuestiona-el-fraude-electoral/%3famp=1
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        We're many steps deep into the judicialization of Bolivian politics, but the criminal investigation of foreign observers is particularly obnoxious.
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          (This point also applies to threats to prosecute the OAS audit team and Almagro for his words, FWIW.)
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            Academics and journalists rightly expect the US government to kick this kind of investigation aside.
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              With that said, my cynical eyes don't read the DOJ correspondence here as especially threatening…
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                The same letter being selectively screencapped says that the DOJ will accept authenticating the authorship of a public report in lieu of an interview. And that is what Williams does in response.
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                  It's the earlier request for an interview in support of the Bolivian (or absurdly, Paraguayan) investigation that feels like US government complicity with an attack on free speech.
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                    Curiel and Williams were reasonably viewing that correspondence in the most hostile light possible.
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                      Also worth asking whether the US DOJ slow-walked this request until Áñez was voted out, or whether some Áñez official started pressing them in October.
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                        Trump State Department support for Áñez after the coup remains clear. Before the coup, unproven. This troubling episode doesn't really clarify that, contra the Intercept reporting.
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