Four years after Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was ousted, Jeanine Áñez, the former interim president, is on trial with 17 others. They’re accused of incidents termed as genocide from November 2019 in areas near Bolivia’s capital, La Paz. After Morales left, protests broke out. The military and police forcefully countered these protests, causing numerous casualties. […]
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