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Comments by Eva Copa, the independent left mayor of El Alto, about close Evo ally Juan Ramón Quintana challenging her administration from an office in Senkata… 1. illustrate a pattern of MAS-IPSP resentment of breakaway dissidents. 2. fuel baseless speculation re 2019 massacre @BrujulaNoticias/1509612036044505091Permalink On twitter.com
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Eva Copa served as Senate President while representing El Alto and the MAS in 2019-20. @CarwilBJ/1318386407543656453Permalink On twitter.com
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Still, the party refused to back her candidacy for mayor of El Alto, even though their voters overwhelmingly did. @CarwilBJ/1344051311105474562Permalink On twitter.com
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Her overwhelming election in 2021 was part of a wave of successful independent left candidacies in major cities, governorships. woborders.blog/2021/04/11/parallels-in-ecuador-bolivia-elections-highlight-growing-role-for-independent-and-indigenous-politicians/Permalink On twitter.com
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Since late 2019, Eva Copa has been engaged in a two-way critique with former president and current party leader Evo Morales. @CarwilBJ/1482001117605150722Permalink On twitter.com
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Along the way, of course, the MAS ran a local election campaign challenging Copa's run, and constitute one major opposition party in the city.Permalink On twitter.com
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Social movements are intimately involved in both electoral and protest politics in El Alto. This is the context for Quintana being mentioned here.Permalink On twitter.com
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And yet, a slew of former Áñez politicians and liberal journalists are now drawing connections between Quintana, widely reputed as a Machiavellian political operator, and the 2019 Senkata massacre.Permalink On twitter.com
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The Senkata massacre's context is not in dispute: dozens of rural and urban political movements staged a blockade at the refinery as part of nationwide protests against Morales' ouster, Jeanine Áñez's presidency, and in defense of Indigenous identity in post-Evo Bolivia.Permalink On twitter.com
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There has however been consistent pushing of a narrative in which protesters in Senkata were allegedly either "terrorists" or responsible for shooting one another. woborders.blog/2020/01/12/senkata-legitimizing-repression/Permalink On twitter.com
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People citing Copa's latest declaration are seeking to add a whiff of credibility to these allegations. But they simply can't be squared with the record of the day…Permalink On twitter.com
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On November 19, 2019, Bolivian security forces negotiated the exit of a convoy of gas trucks from the plant, past the blockade. Only after this did they engage in a lengthy confrontation with protesters, which began a massacre. woborders.blog/2020/01/03/three-hours-of-terror-in-senkata/Permalink On twitter.com
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Bolivian security forces shot and killed 11 people that day, and wounded 80 more. These shootings ranged across the neighborhood of Senkata (far from the gas plant), targeted numerous bystanders, and continued for hours. @CarwilBJ/1429480398233522177On twitter.com
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No imagined machinations of Quintana can change the basic facts of the day, responsibility for these deaths, or culpability for the unlawful detentions and tortures that followed.Permalink On twitter.com