{"id":4402,"date":"2019-11-17T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:50:47","slug":"the-coup-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"The Coup in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, the original ouster of Evo Morales was a popular uprising, <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=4385\">not a coup<\/a>. The problem is, what&#8217;s happened <em>since<\/em> then is sounding more and more coup-like with each passing day. Particularly this (source <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/bolivia-government-says-unrest-down-half-210326617.html\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The IACHR decried as &#8220;grave&#8221; a decree from the Anez government exempting the armed forces from criminal responsibility as they preserve public order.<\/p>\n<p>The rights group, an autonomous arm of the Organization of American States, said the effect of the decree could be to &#8220;stimulate violent repression.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just like I can think of no plausible excuse for Morales (or anyone else) to cling to power for term after term, I can think of no plausible excuse for a government placing parts of itself above the law when it comes to committing acts of violence against the people.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s even <em>harder<\/em> to think of any excuse for the latter. Clinging to power is merely the sort of egoism on the part of a leader that smooths the way to becoming a tyrant in the future. Giving the military a blank check to kill and maim basically <em>is<\/em> tyranny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, the original ouster of Evo Morales was a popular uprising, not a coup. The problem is, what&#8217;s happened since then is sounding more and more coup-like with each passing day. Particularly this (source here): The IACHR decried as &#8220;grave&#8221; a decree from the Anez government exempting the armed forces from criminal responsibility as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}