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Those covering Jeanine Áñez should read this Dec 2019 interview where she responds to Sacaba and Senkata massacres with total lies: "the ones who attacked weren't us … no bullets came from the Army side" paginasiete.bo/nacional/2019/12/8/anez-sobre-sacaba-yo-no-te-lo-pedi-tu-me-pusiste-ahora-me-tenes-que-sacar-de-esto-239786.html
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I realize that talking to God is a thing religious officials do, but the dialogue here is stunning. Áñez to God after Sacaba: "I didn't ask you for this [i.e., the presidency], you put me forward. Now you have to get me out of this because this isn't what I want for my people."
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Mery Vaca, the interviewer explains, "In fact, she believes that having secured [a] pacification [agreement] and the [law] convening elections is a demonstration that she is being accompanied by God."
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Áñez narrating, "I went forward [after pleading to God after the massacre] always with that inner power, that I had asked God that, if I am doing things well, let me continue going forward."
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"'If you [God] are acompanying me, let me keep going forward.' … and so I go on with this strength."
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Then she puts the deaths in perspective, though she continues to refer to eight, rather than the ten known to be dead in Sacaba, and the ten more in Senkata.
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"So later in their analysis, they told me that it could have been worse; not eight, it could have been more than a hundred, it could have been a catastrophe. And so one says, '[God] was truly with me.' ['realmente estuve acompañada']."
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"If we have managed to advance in pacification and in [convening elections], I believe that I am being blessed beacuse [God] is accompanying me and he is telling me what I have to do."