https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1430288042607226882?s=19

I do not understand the two beds. Hey fam, wanna stay the night in a prison cell?

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm all for housing prisoners with dignity and human rights, but you don't go giving special privileges to some over others, especially when the crime is so heinous like hers. The prisoners are absolutely right.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Maybe it's to maintain stability? If they piss Añez off too much maybe they're afraid the US will organise another CIA coup or something, or Añez supporters will cause some form of civil unrest? That's the only angle I can see here.

        • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah this kills the pro propaganda for her, libs are all about the "rule of law" and shit like that and it's really hard to paint the current Bolivian government as some type of brutal dictatorship like they commonly do for other nations. She really doesn't have a good support network, one of the few things they can even do right now besides screaming election fraud is to point to how she is being treated. This kills the illusion that it's barbaric.

          Optics matter a lot, like most Americans don't genuinely give a shit about other countries unless they actually see something that bothers them. That's why they pushed those soldiers carrying babies so insanely hard, nothing else was sticking. Even that looks to be too little too late. Of course the media apparatus matters a lot for these things, but if they don't have good slop to show the piggies they're uninterested

      • Weebus [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        This. It isn't that it's inherently wrong to treat prisoners well, only that she in NO WAY deserves elevated privilege, particularly when the majority of other inmates presumably did lesser crimes than attempted coups.

        If the Bolivian prison system treated everyone like this? Sure. I have no issue. She belongs in jail but we gain nothing by forcing her or any other person to sleep on the cold ground or go days without any entertainment. It's similar to the January 6th thing, and the backlash over the gentle hand the cops gave to the rioters. It's not that we want them beaten, gassed, and shot dead, it's that you SHOULDN'T be doing that to people protesting for a much better reason and give passes to fascist coup attempts.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        yep either everyone gets this or she loses it. and i say this as someone that has done time. (but i do think if we have to have any kind of prisons/jails it should be like what she has now)

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I mean just shoot her idk. I don’t think public officials who did their crimes in the broad of the day get the same justice process rights the average person should get. The tsar didn’t need a trial, we all knew who he was and what he did

      • RNAi [he/him]M
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        3 years ago

        I'm a centrist leftist: I want to abolish prisons and sent all the fascist and fascist collaborators to the wall.