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One place where the #GIEIBolivia report is breaking news is the death of Limbert Guzmán Vásquez on November 6, 2019… @CarwilBJ/1330666767014879232Permalink On twitter.com
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November 6 saw a prolonged street battle as three marches convened by the Bartolina Sisa women's federation challenged ongoing anti-Evo protests.Permalink On twitter.com
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The GIEI records that the first injury of the day was the ealy morning beating of Alex Montenegro Marín, a government opponent, by MAS supporters in the Plazuela Busch. He suffered a broken finger, two broken ribs and head trauma. (p. 62)Permalink On twitter.com
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The police mutiny was still a day in the future, but Cochabamba police had chosen sides against Evo and teargassed this crowd in downtown Cochabamba.Permalink On twitter.com
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As this crowd retreating from teargas, the Resistencia Juvenil Cochala, a right-wing motorcycle-mounted clash group, beat some of its members. Later they confronted buses w/ departing demonstrators, cut their tires, forced some out, and beat them publicly.Permalink On twitter.com
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While this was happening east of the city, a 3,000 person pro-MAS march came from the west via Vinto. At the Huayculi bridge they faced off with an opposition blockade, police, and 300 RJC motorcyclists.Permalink On twitter.com
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While the police launched teargas, the RJC beat MASistas and stripped indigenous women of their outer clothes. A generalized melee ensued. (p. 64)Permalink On twitter.com
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At least sixty were wounded. It was near Huayculi that two of the most serious injuries happened to Florentino Nina and Limbert Guzmán Vásquez.Permalink On twitter.com
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The GIEI puts Nina's injury first. A pro-MAS marcher, he suffered a severe face wound from an explosive launched by the RJC. While included in the case file for Guzmán, his assault was never investigated by police.Permalink On twitter.com
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Limbert Guzmán Vásquez, 20, was in cardiac arrest on arrival to Viedma hospital. Medical records state this was "consequent to aggression and/or the blast of explosive material near the head of the patient." He died that night.Permalink On twitter.com
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The GIEI investigated the cause of death at length. Members of the RJC alleged that four MASistas, three men and one woman, were responsible. They captured the four, badly beat them, and turned them over to police. (p. 67)Permalink On twitter.com
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However, only one RJC member ever testified to seeing them beat Guzmán. Others only described hearsay.Permalink On twitter.com
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Meanwhile TV reporting on November 6 included a Viedma doctor describing severe injuries produced by an explosive, and a youth claiming to have witnessed Limbert Guzmán's failed launch of an explosive with a bazooka.Permalink On twitter.com
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Two other witnesses, including the person who brought Guzmán to a clinic, gave the police and the GIEI slightly different accounts in which RJC explosives were responsible for Guzmán's injuries.Permalink On twitter.com
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The forensic team reconsidered Guzmán's autopsy results and injuries and concluded that his wounds were consistent with a bazooka explosion rather than a fatal beating. The GIEI concluded that either Guzmán or someone nearby in the RJC caused Guzman's death.Permalink On twitter.com
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The witness who claimed another RJC member had fired the explosive that inadvertantly injured Guzmán intervened to keep the RJC from having a public funeral that would denounce a supposed murder.On twitter.com
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Astoundingly, there are no testimonies from the four captured individuals who the RJC blamed for the deaths. The report details how the men were beaten, stripped, had teeth broken, and needed urgent medical care when turned over to the police.Permalink On twitter.com
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There was no prosecutor's investigation of the assaults upon them.Permalink On twitter.com