The Grayzone traveled to Bolivia to produce this documentary investigating the coup government’s massacre of indigenous protesters in the Senkata area of El Alto in November 2019. We interviewed family members of victims and human rights lawyers trying to hold the Jeanine Áñez transitional administration to justice. By Anya Parampil Camera, editing and scoring by Ben Norton
In her last days in office, US-backed strongwoman Jeanine Añez is attempting to push through judicial reforms that could help her in the coming months should she face trial for her crimes.
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On the day of my scheduled interview with a leftist Bolivian journalist, I learned that he had been disappeared. Every…
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I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.
