Bolivia busts alleged US arms shipment heading to right-wing forces
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2022
BOLIVIA has seized arms which were allegedly sent by the United States to arm opposition forces in the Santa Cruz region of the country, state forces claimed today. The shipment contained a batch of automatic, semi-automatic and other high-calibre weapons, according to the Special Force to Fight Crime director Limbert Coca.
The deadly cargo was discovered after customs officials became suspicious and ordered “a physical and documentary verification.” They found that the arms cache and other materials camouflaged and hidden away under empty boxes and clothing, Mr Coca explained.
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Santa Cruz is led by far-right governor Luis Fernando Camacho who is an open supporter of the 2019 Washington-backed coup that ousted former president Evo Morales.
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Scores of indigenous Bolivians were killed in the Senkata and Sacaba massacres when interim president Jeanine Anez mobilised the armed forces to put down protests.
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Luis Fernando Camacho
Racist, fascist Governor Luis Fernando Camacho
Dipstick Gov. has his Bible with him.
Union Juvenil Cruceñista Bolivia fascistsMembers of Bolivia's extreme-right Santa Cruz Youth Union (Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, or UJC), and Luis Fernando Camacho (on right)
Bolivian coup officials and supporters stalk international election observers, launch violent incitement campaign
By the time a team of electoral observers arrived in Bolivia – including members of The Grayzone – right-wingers had already published a flood of online threats, smearing them as “terrorists” and circulating photos captured while stalking them in the airport.
By Ben Norton
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA – Contributors to The Grayzone including Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, and Ben Norton traveled from the United States to Bolivia in order to join a delegation of independent international observers of the country’s October 18th presidential election – the first vote since a November 2019 US-backed military coup removed the country’s elected president.
Little known to us, however, was that we were being stalked on the way. A number of Bolivians covertly took photos of us as we waited for a connecting flight in the airport in Chile, snapped more as we boarded the plane, and published the images on social media, along with our personal information and a flight itinerary showing when we would arrive to Bolivia. The incitement campaign has led to a wave of physical threats and calls for harassment.
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Hours after photographs of us were published on social media, Murillo issued a thinly veiled threat. “Our elections will be a democratic celebration, the more observers there are, the better for everyone. We warn agitators and people who seek to generate violence, they are not welcome. We will put them on a plane or behind bars. Behave, we know who you are and where you are.”
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Camacho was the leader of a powerful right-wing group called the Pro-Santa Cruz Civic Committee, which was co-founded by Croatian Nazi collaborators who fled to Bolivia after WWII, and whose young followers are infamous for fascist-style salutes and anti-indigenous violence.
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https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/15/bolivia-stalk-threat-election-observers/
Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" discussing the Bolivian coup during Trump's "presidency" below.
Youth Union thugs conducting another assault upon indigenous Bolivians to keep their terrorism fresh. Indigenous
people are the majority in Bolivia, of course, although they weren't allowed to vote, even, until after a revolution in
1952, nor even walk upon the sidewalks.
Youth Union terrorists put their clubs on the ground and lowered their heads for a moment of prayer.
Another display of their white "Christian" piety through public praying.
