1/ Vivanco of @hrw explicitly called the US-backed dictatorship of @JeanineAnez a "democracy" in May - six months after it was installed by a coup & already perpetrated many of its worst atrocities. He still calls it an "interim government", and still tries to demonize Morales
2/ Quite a contrast with how Vivanco - for years - CONSTANTLY (as in virtually every time he tweets about #Venezuela or #Nicaragua) explicitly refers to their democratically elected presidents as "dictator" or their governments as "dictatorship".
3/ Vivanco immediately swallowed and regurgitated the OAS's totally discredited electoral fraud claims in October that were used to incite the coup against Morales
4/ The OAS lies were OBVIOUS. Hence @ceprdc (especially @JakobJohnston @ViscidKonrad @MarkWeisbrot ) called them out IMMEDIATELY. Over time OAS lies have unraveled even more fully.
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5/ As for #Bolivia's justice system. Judges on top court (thanks to changes brought in under Morales) are nominated by national assembly then elected by popular vote to 6 yr terms. Contrasts favorably with US system: lifetime appointments made by 2 factions of the ruling party
6/ BTW Vivanco's idea of a great judiciary is #Ecuador's - the one drastically "reformed" by Moreno so that #Assange's rights under Ecuadorian & int'l law could be trampled by Moreno with total impunity - & led directly to the show trial we are witnessing now in the UK
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