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Journalist Andrés Gómez Vela @AndrsGomezV, formerly director of @erbol, has offered his take on #GIEIBolivia report: "The GIEI located the cause of the 2019 crisis and the consequent violations of human rights, in the violation of the constitution … by Morales and Áñez and… @AndrsGomezV/1429399334634786816On twitter.com
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"… in the injustices perpetrator by arbiters (including the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal, members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, prosecutors, and judges) with the obligation to guard the democratic system."Permalink On twitter.com
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One has to read the GIEI Report sort of selectively to come to this conclusion, since the Tribunals are only mentioned to contextualize the events of the year. But the GIEI does actively call out systemic failures in the justice system.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's very fair for Gómez to relate the failure of the TCP and the TSE to block Evo Morales' repostulation to "the lack of independence in the administration of justice."Permalink On twitter.com
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Gómez argues that had the TCP done so, "they would have put a brake on the tyrannical pretensions of [the Morales adminstration]; thereby they would have saved the lives of the 37 Bolivians who died in the Senata and Sacaba massacres and [the rest of the crisis]."Permalink On twitter.com
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I refuse to put this responsibility on the Plurinational Constitution Tribunal. Indeed I refuse the persistent tendency to find the one wrong decision that caused all of the suffering of 2019.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's far too easy for people in a polarized country to figure out that everything was one side's fault. Even people like Gómez, who writes here of "we Bolivians who do not belong to either of the polarized bands, and who just want to live in peace."Permalink On twitter.com
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When things get worse, those who press the accelerator must each bear accountability for their own actions. By explicitly focusing on human rights abuses, and demanding accountability for each, the #GIEI contributes to that process.Permalink On twitter.com
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My direct response in Spanish: @CarwilBJ/1429405389209145349Permalink On twitter.com