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Biden State Department Embraces Flawed Logic for Bolivian Coup in Leaked Report

25 August 2022, Bolivia, La Paz: Supporters of President Arce's government march with flags and mining helmets during a rally in support of the government. "We are starting this big rallyfor the country and democracy," the Bolivian leader wrote on Twitter. Arce had called for the rally. He said it was intended to send a signal against the "right-wing coup plotters." Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

America has always been Trumpist and Biden has even embraced it

A State Department report obtained by The Intercept shows the Biden administration continuing to embrace claims of electoral fraud that opened the door for a right-wing takeover of the Bolivian government in 2019. Mandated by the most recent omnibus spending bill, the report delivered to Congress mirrors the posture the Trump administration pushed three years ago, when it sought to cement the replacement of Bolivia’s Indigenous socialist president Evo Morales with the country’s right-wing Christian senator Jeanine Áñez.

Source: Biden State Department Embraces Flawed Logic for Bolivian Coup in Leaked Report