Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

Former Bolivian dictator @JeanineAnez has just been arrested.

If you don't know her, let me fill you in on some of her crazier moments (thread)

1. Shes a hardline fundamentalist Christian who thinks the indigenous majority are "satanic" & shouldn't be allowed to live in cities.

2. Her party received just 4% of the vote in the 2019 election. The military hand picked her from obscurity to be president.

She arrived clutching an oversized leather bible announcing that Christ had returned to government.

3. She pre-exonerated all security forces of all crimes during the "restoration" of order. Everyone understod this to be a license to kill.

They immediately used it, carrying out a number of massacres.

4. Añez ruthlessly crushed dissent. Not only were protestors shot but medical workers (like these guys) who treated them were charged with sedition and other crimes

She forced all critical media off the air. Foreign journalists were kicked out, or, in one case, beaten to death by pro-coup forces.

mintpressnews.com/bolivia-coup-g…

6. Her government also created a new masked, black clad terror squad explicitly aimed at foreign human rights investigators.

mintpressnews.com/bolivia-right-…

7. With her rule failing, Añez attempted to force through a firesale of the Bolivian economy, privatizing the country, shock doctrine style, and trying to undo 15 years of progress.

mintpressnews.com/bolivia-interi…

Throughout it all, she had the total support of the US and of most of the media, many of whom portrayed her as a feminist icon (insert Eric Andre girl power meme).