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        1. US State Department (@StateDept) human rights report on Bolivia raises selective concern re Jeanine Áñez, detained leader, otherwise focuses on long-running systemic problems. state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/bolivia/
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        This report acknowledges Luis Arce @LuchoXBolivia as elected in "free, fair, transparent" election.
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      It raises no concerns about deadly political violence. All such violence under Arce has been among non-state actors, though investigations and prosecutions have been inadequate. woborders.blog/2021/12/31/four-deaths-2021/
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    Jeanine Áñez's détention on coup-plotting charges is addressed at length. The @StateDept echoes her line that she should be held to a juicio de responsabilidades instead. However the indicted acts occurred when she was a Senator.
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      There was much worry that Áñez would be arbitrarily and indefinitely detained, but her détention was judicially reviewed, her indictment filed and her trial begun.
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        The most significant human rights abuses of recent years occurred during the 2019 crisis. There was also many political prisoners under Áñez’s government in 2020.
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          The @StateDept report acknowledges the #GIEIBolivia report as significant and widely accepted, but shows no sign of having read it. New evidence of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest, torture, and paramilitary organizations is not considered.
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            Unlike its general practice, the @StateDept does not mention impunity for past abuses as a concern. This should have come up regarding Áñez. Nor does it praise the trials of security force officers involved in abuse and mutiny
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              A particularly glaring choice is the report's focus only on a RJC leader as its only example of pre-trial violence in jail. There are other examples and the report fails to mention the nature of the organization as an illegal violent group denounced by the #GIEIBolivia.
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                Other issues legitimately raised include lengthy pre-trial detention, prison overcrowding, capricious threats of lawsuits and/or prosecutions against political opponents (rarely followed through, fwiw), gender violence, child labor.
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                  Despite all this, these reports would be significantly better if @StateDept officials simply read the range of @DPBoliviaOf reports and attended @CIDH hearings and included relevant information in this document.
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