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Then Iran already won this round.
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MIDDLE EAST
LATIN AMERICA
Huh? Why would a Somali-American congresswoman attack El Salvador President Bukele?
Didn't the politician herself claim that she was fighting for Somali interests only?
Plus, is her beloved Somalia truly democratic?
Or do technicalities only matter when they favor right wing politicians or even ALL politicians in general?
Err, wasn't it a lot easier for women not to walk through all those streets for the time being than passing any legislation or measure? Just asking.
Fani Willis Scandal Section
Quote:The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena on Friday to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to obtain documents related to possible misuse of federal funds related to her case against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants.
In a letter sent by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), he noted that the committee in August 2023 had requested documents regarding the usage of federal funds. However, he said even after two letters were sent to her office last year, she has “failed to comply voluntarily with any of our requests.”
“In accordance with the attached Schedule instructions, you, Fani T. Willis, in your capacity as the District Attorney of Fulton County and head of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, are required to produce the following items in your possession, custody, or control, from the period of September 1, 2020, to present in unredacted form,” it said before making specific requests for documents and communications related to federal funds usage or allegations about their misuse.
As of Friday morning, Ms. Willis, an elected Democrat, has not publicly responded to the subpoena. The Epoch Times contacted her office Friday.
Previously, her office condemned Mr. Jordan’s requests, claiming they are politically motivated, and said last year that under the Constitution, Congress has no right to “interfere with a state criminal matter.”
The House Judiciary letter made reference to a Washington Free Beacon report that claimed a former employee in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office was demoted after she issued a warning to Ms. Willis about her use of federal grant funding that was allegedly intended to be used for gang prevention efforts in Fulton County. Months later, according to the letter that cited the report, the employee was “abruptly terminated” and was “escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators.”
Quote:The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a bill to revive an oversight panel with powers to discipline and remove wayward county prosecutors, which could potentially target alleged misconduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in her case against former President Donald Trump.
The House on Jan. 29 voted 95-75 along party lines for House Bill 881, sending it to the Senate for further debate.
The measure would empower the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission to operate after the state Supreme Court in November 2023 refused to approve rules governing its conduct.
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The bill lays out grounds for discipline, removal, or “involuntary retirement” of wayward prosecutors, including for engaging in “willful misconduct” or for being convicted of a “crime involving moral turpitude” or persistently failing to carry out their duties.
Ms. Willis, who charged President Trump over his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, has been accused of misconduct, court documents show.
She’s accused of having had an “improper” relationship with her top Trump prosecutor and benefitting from the relationship financially, among other allegations.
Elections Issues
Quote:The verdict in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan that could see him banned for life from doing business in New York has been delayed until mid-February, according to a court spokesperson.
Justice Arthur Engoron said during the trial’s closing arguments on Jan. 11 that he hoped to make his final decision by Jan. 31 in a much-anticipated verdict that could, in addition to hitting the former president with a lifetime business ban, see him fined $370 million.
After the tentative Jan. 31 deadline came and went without a verdict, the spokesperson for the New York State Office of Court Administration, Alfred Baker, said that the judge is now expected to deliver his decision in early to mid-February.
“That’s the working plan now,” Mr. Baker told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement on Feb. 1.
The spokesperson added that the new timeline for a verdict is a “rough estimate” that could still change, and that the verdict would be a written decision, with no news conference.
While it’s unclear why Justice Engoron is taking more time to deliver the verdict, reports suggest that it could have something to do with a 12-page letter issued by a court-appointed monitor claiming that parts of President Trump’s financial disclosure appeared incomplete or inconsistent.
Attorneys for President Trump, who maintains his innocence and has called the case a political witch hunt, have disputed the monitor’s characterization of the financial disclosures.
The letter from the monitor, former judge Barbara Jones, pointed out errors on seven disclosure forms, three inconsistencies, and five clerical errors.
President Trump’s attorneys have said the issues flagged by Ms. Jones are immaterial amid the thousands of pages of financial data she has received, which include Trump Organization financial disclosures to third parties, documents related to transactions, bank statements, and all manner of paperwork related to taxes.
Quote:Ten Republican senators in Oregon cannot run for reelection, the state’s top court ruled on Feb. 1.
The court found that the senators are banned from running for reelection under a constitutional amendment approved in 2022.
The amendment, Ballot Measure 113, states that lawmakers who miss at least 10 legislative days without an excuse cannot seek reelection.
The ruling upheld a decision from Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, a Democrat.
Ms. Griffin-Valade said in 2023 that the senators, under the measure, could not try for another term after their current term.
“My decision honors the voters’ intent by enforcing the measure the way it was commonly understood when Oregonians added it to our state constitution,” she said at the time.
The decision sparked a lawsuit from some of the Republican senators, but the Oregon Supreme Court sided with the secretary of state.
“Because the text is capable of supporting the secretary’s interpretation, and considering the clear import of the ballot title and explanatory statement in this case, we agree with the secretary that voters would have understood the amendment to mean that a legislator with 10 or more unexcused absences during a legislative session would be disqualified from holding legislative office during the immediate next term, rather than the term after that,” the new ruling reads.
Middle East Crisis
Quote:President Joe Biden has decided what course of action he will take to retaliate against the Iran-backed militants responsible for an attack that killed three American soldiers over the weekend.
Speaking to reporters in Florida on Jan. 30, President Biden said that he would not seek an all-out war with Iran.
“I do hold [Iran] responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it,” he said.
“I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That’s not what I’m looking for.”
The president did not confirm if the administration had established a firm link between the Islamist regime in Tehran and the attack on U.S. troops but said that the “discussion” would be had.
Pressed as to whether he believed new strikes would finally deter an increasing number of attacks on Americans in the Middle East, the president said simply, “We’ll see.”
Quote:The Biden administration on Jan. 31 formally identified the group responsible for a drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan that left three U.S. Army Reservists dead.
An umbrella group uniting several terror organizations resourced and conducted the attack, according to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
“We believe that the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced, and facilitated by an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which contains multiple groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah,” Mr. Kirby told reporters.
“We will do what we need to do to make sure that those responsible are held properly accountable.”
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq isn’t a single group but a network of ideologically aligned Islamic terror groups that broadly support Iran and its interests.
Mr. Kirby reaffirmed that the United States wouldn’t pursue a war with Iran over the attack and the hundreds of others that have targeted U.S. troops in the Middle East in recent months, which the administration claims have been backed by Iran.
“We don’t seek a war with Iran,” Mr. Kirby said. “We’re not looking for a broader conflict. We’re not looking for a war with Iran.”
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Some Republican leaders have called for direct strikes against Iran, a possibility that the White House appears to have ruled out.
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Quote:Republicans at the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs suggested during a hearing earlier this week that the White House had deliberately waited to allocate funds to UNRWA before announcing a suspension of aid on January 26. While evidence has yet to emerge to prove that, Fox News reports that the administration sent $51 million to UNRWA in November, long after the agency had been accused of excessive sympathy for, and even some ties to, the Palestinian terrorists who carried out the attack.
The Biden administration sent millions in government assistance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for FY24 amid allegations of terrorist ties against federal employees prior to the administration’s pause of new funding.
The administration announced a pause on new funding would be enacted last week over allegations that some of its members were “involved” in the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. The U.S. government had already earmarked $51 million for FY24 prior to the pause.
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“The pause decision was well after the initial tranche to UNRWA’s oPt Flash Appeal of $51M,” a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “That funding was obligated back in mid-November in the early part of the crisis, about 100 days before the Jan. 26 pause.”
At the moment, only $300,000 worth of funds earmarked for UNRWA this year have actually been affected by the suspension.
Quote:Sixty-seven plaintiffs filed suit in the District of Columbia on Wednesday seeking damages from the government of Iran for supporting the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
“Iran bears direct responsibility for the October 7 attacks. Indeed, that point is essentially undisputed. The Iranian regime has openly flaunted its motive for aiding the horrors,” said the plaintiffs, who included surviving victims of the attack and the families of those killed and kidnapped by Hamas.
A landmark U.S. court decision in 2016 held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not protect state sponsors of terrorism from lawsuits. Iran was designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984.
The lawsuit charged Iran, a “sworn enemy of Israel and the United States,” with orchestrating the attack to sabotage diplomacy between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
“As potential Israeli normalization with Saudi Arabia progressed, Iran prepared to reset the regional balance, including by attempting to unite Arab states around the Palestinian cause,” the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs said they would provide evidence including their own sworn testimony, expert witnesses, and U.S. government documentation on how Iran finances Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other terrorist groups. One of the Iranian officials named as a conspirator in the attack was Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
The lawsuit charged Iran with giving the “green light for Hamas, PIJ, and the other Iran-backed groups to launch the pre-planned attack against Israel, using Iranian intelligence, training, and military supplies” five days before the “deadliest killing of Jews since the Holocaust” was perpetrated. The suit described some of the most heinous atrocities in detail to emphasize the utter depravity of the attack.
The plaintiffs are reportedly seeking over a billion dollars in damages from Iran, including damages from the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism funds.
CCP's Suspicious Activities in US Soil
Quote:The Justice Department is charging four Chinese nationals for their alleged role in exporting American electronics to Iran.
Members of the alleged conspiracy smuggled electronic components from the United States through China and Hong Kong for the benefit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the United States designates as a terror organization.
“For more than a decade, the defendants allegedly orchestrated a scheme to smuggle U.S. manufactured parts to the IRGC and the Iranian agency charged with developing ballistic missiles and UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles],” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said in a prepared statement.
Baoxia Liu, Yiu Wa Yung, Yongxin Li, and Yanlai Zhong have been indicted for unlawfully exporting and smuggling U.S. export-controlled items through China and Hong Kong from 2007 to 2020.
The defendants allegedly used an array of front companies in communist China to funnel dual-use technologies, including electronics and components that could be utilized in the production of drones and ballistic missile systems.
These products were then sold to sanctioned Iranian entities with ties to the IRGC and Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, which oversees the regime’s production of missiles and drones.
“Such efforts to unlawfully obtain U.S. technology directly threaten our national security, and we will use every tool at our disposal to sever the illicit supply chains that fuel the Iranian regime’s malign activity,” Mr. Olsen said.
“As a result, a vast amount of dual-use U.S.-origin commodities with military capabilities were exported from the United States to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions and export control laws and regulations.”
Quote:Dozens of Chinese students have been interrogated by U.S. border law enforcement officers, had their visas canceled, and were repatriated at Washington Dulles International Airport for their possible connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Chinese Embassy lodged a formal protest against the United States for blocking Chinese students from entry and issued a caution over traveling through Dulles International Airport.
Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said that dozens of Chinese students holding valid visas have been denied entry over the past few months when returning to school from overseas travel or visiting relatives in China, and some were interrogated for 8 hours by officers, according to a post on the Chinese Embassy website on Jan. 29. However, Mr. Xie didn’t say the specific reasons why the Chinese students were denied entry by the United States.
The Chinese Embassy also said in a post that the U.S. officers at the airport also checked the electronic devices the Chinese students carried. The embassy didn’t disclose the exact number of Chinese students under interrogation or the specific circumstances.
CCP-controlled Chinese media reported that since the end of November 2023, at least 8 Chinese students holding legal and valid documents have been interrogated and deported by the United States at Washington Dulles Airport alone.
In a separate statement on its website, the Chinese Embassy said it had made “solemn representations” to the U.S. government about the treatment of students arriving at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. and cautioned Chinese students who travel through the airport.
Meanwhile, several Chinese official media outlets reposted an earlier report from Qiaowang, an official Chinese website focusing on overseas Chinese affairs, detailing a few cases of Chinese students being interrogated and repatriated at Dulles Airport last year.
Quote:Researchers in China’s military are studying how to use influence operations to sow discord abroad and encourage a mentality of defeat in the United States, according to one expert.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), are engaged in “cyber-enabled influence operations” against the United States and looking to further expand their capability for disruption, according to Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
“There is a group of PLA researchers, often focused on [influence operations], who argue that the cognitive domain is the new focus of warfare,” Mr. Beauchamp-Mustafaga said in prepared testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Feb. 1.
Such “cognitive domain operations,” or CDO, are ultimately aimed at encouraging “a psychological or cognitive decision to surrender,” he added.
Thus, by leveraging technologically enhanced propaganda, like AI-generated deepfakes, the regime hopes “to win a conflict with as little kinetic destruction as possible and force the adversary to accept defeat short of total destruction.”
Mr. Beauchamp-Mustafaga outlined how researchers associated with the PLA have expressed interest in using “inauthentic content,” which they refer to as “synthetic information,” to coordinate “precision cognitive attacks” against adversaries.
These precision attacks are unique to other forms of CCP propaganda in that they are “specifically tailored or even personalized against small groups or individuals.”
As part of this effort, Mr. Beauchamp-Mustafaga said the PLA was researching how to reinforce “information cocoons,” or echo chambers, to deliberately polarize and divide American society to detract from “mainstream [Western] values” and isolate individuals psychologically.
Mr. Beauchamp-Mustafaga added that it was difficult to say how far the regime has yet gone to implement the researchers’ suggestions and that such ideas may be limited to certain scholarly circles associated with the PLA.
His findings, however, are consistent with reports documenting an increasing tempo and granularity in CCP influence operations.
Entertainment
Quote:Carl Weathers, who immortalized the role of Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rocky and three of its sequels, has died. He was 76.
Weathers’ family announced that the actor died Tuesday. No cause of death was given.
“We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Carl Weathers,” his family said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets.
“He died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, February 1st, 2024. … Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life. Through his contributions to film, television, the arts and sports, he has left an indelible mark and is recognized worldwide and across generations. He was a beloved brother, father, grandfather, partner, and friend.”
Among his other notable screen roles were as Colonel Al Dillon opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator, and the voice of the military action figure Combat Carl in Toy Story 4.
With his muscular frame and imposing physicality, Carl Weathers cut an intimidating figure on movie screens, leading Hollywood to cast the former athlete in action roles.
He was a star football player at San Diego State before launching a brief career in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders. He segued into acting in the early 70s and eventually landed the role of heavyweight boxing world champion Apollo Creed in the 1976 movie Rocky.
MIDDLE EAST
Iran: Barefaced as Usual
Quote:Iran issued a warning on Jan. 31 that any U.S. attack on the Islamic regime would be met with a decisive response. The threats followed accusations by President Joe Biden that Iran is linked to the recent killing of three U.S. soldiers at a military base in Jordan.
The drone attack on the military base on Jan. 28 prompted the United States to prepare for retaliatory strikes in the region. At least 40 troops were injured at Tower 22, a base in northeastern Jordan that has been a crucial stronghold for the U.S. military’s presence in neighboring Syria.
There are growing concerns, however, that a U.S. response could trigger further unrest in a region already embattled by Israel’s ongoing war with the Hamas terrorist group, as well as continued attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists.
A recent attack on American forces in the waterway by Houthi militants was averted when a U.S. Navy destroyer shot down an anti-ship cruise missile launched on Jan. 30. It was the latest attack on U.S. forces patrolling the key maritime trade route, officials said.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Amir Saeid Iravani, first issued the warnings on Jan. 30 in a briefing to Iranian journalists, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
“The Islamic Republic would decisively respond to any attack on the [country], its interests and nationals under any pretexts,” IRNA quoted Mr. Iravani as saying. He described any possible Iranian retaliation as a “strong response,” but did not elaborate further.
Despite reports by the Qatari-funded pro-Hamas satellite TV channel Al Jazeera that messages had been exchanged between the United States and Iran over the last few days, through either direct or indirect channels, Mr. Iravani denied that such communication had taken place.
“Such messages have not been exchanged,” Mr. Iravani said.
LATIN AMERICA
Bukele, Ilhan Omar, Brazil & Water Guns & More
Quote:El Salvador will hold an unprecedented presidential election on Sunday as polls suggest President Nayib Bukele will win reelection by an overwhelming landslide despite the country’s Constitution explicitly forbidding presidents from seeking more than one term.
Sunday will see some 5.5 million Salvadorans head to the polls to choose who will lead their country for the next five years. The country entered a mandatory three-day silent period on Thursday in which no participating candidate or party may issue any kind of political statement or publish propaganda.
According to polls released by El Salvador’s Central American University in January, 81.9 percent of voters intend to vote for Bukele, placing the president vastly ahead of his closest rival, Manuel Flores of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Party (FMLN), who received 4.2 percent support. Joel Sánchez, of the center-right Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) party, received 3.4 percent support in the poll.
Bukele, who now leads the ruling New Ideas (NI) party, was a former FMLN member until he was expelled in 2017 for “violating” the party’s principles. He successfully ran as an outsider in the 2019 presidential elections, in which he obtained 54 percent of the vote.
Bukele’s all-but-certain Sunday reelection is unprecedented in El Salvador’s modern democratic history and has generated international controversy, as the nation’s Constitution contains several articles that explicitly establish a five-year presidential term duration, prohibit serving multiple terms, and penalize “those who subscribe acts, proclamations or adhesions to promote or support the reelection or continuation of the President of the Republic, or use direct means to that end” with a complete loss of citizen rights.
Bukele will be able to run — and most certainly win — in Sunday’s election thanks to a controversial ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2021.
The court, which had all of its top justices replaced by the pro-Bukele majority in Congress prior to the ruling, issued a new interpretation of Article 152 of the Salvadoran Constitution, which states, “The term of office of the President shall be five years and shall begin and end on the first day of June, and the person who has served as President shall not be able to continue in office for one more day.”
Quote:El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele cheerfully brushed off criticism from embattled U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday, saying he and his country were “honored” to receive her attacks “just days before OUR election.”
“I would be very worried if we had your support,” Bukele told Omar:
Bukele was responding to a message Omar posted on Twitter trumpeting that she “led Members of Congress in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging action on threats to democracy in El Salvador.”
“The State Dept must review its relationship with El Salvador and defend democratic values. The Salvadoran people deserve free and fair elections without fear of repression,” Omar pontificated.
Amusingly, readers of Omar’s post immediately slammed her with fact checks pointing out that El Salvador does have free elections, Bukele and his party won them fairly, and there is a technicality that allows Bukele to legally run for office again.
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Since the actual wording of the Constitution states that candidates who held the presidency for six months before the election cannot run again, Bukele essentially just had to take a vacation to circumvent the restriction. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled in November that Bukele was indeed eligible to run again. Bukele’s critics furiously accused him of packing the courts to obtain the ruling he needed.
Bukele’s immense popularity in El Salvador is due largely to his successful war against gang violence, which has also prompted criticism from human rights groups and made him a hated figure of the global left.
Huh? Why would a Somali-American congresswoman attack El Salvador President Bukele?
Didn't the politician herself claim that she was fighting for Somali interests only?
Plus, is her beloved Somalia truly democratic?
Or do technicalities only matter when they favor right wing politicians or even ALL politicians in general?
Quote:Jerônimo Rodrigues, the Gov. of Bahia, Brazil, is celebrating his successful efforts to ban water pistols at this year’s upcoming Bahia Carnival.
Brazil Posts English noted the ban “prohibits the use of ‘water pistols’ in street parties” and “the measure applies to the entire state.”
g1 reported that a ceremony marking the adoption of the ban was held at the Bahia Administrative Center in Salvador on Monday.
In light of the ban, any water pistols discovered during the carnival will be seized and will be turned over for recycling at the carnival’s end.
Rodriques noted, “In addition to seizing the water pistols, our main objective is to create an environment of tranquility and understanding for people, so that they internalize that this is no longer an acceptable and liberated practice.”
Elisângela Araújo, Bahia’s Secretary of Women’s Policies, praised the ban, claiming the absence of water pistols will be good for women: “We believe in prevention and raising people’s awareness to put an end to this type of sexist and misogynistic violence within our carnival, which is a beautiful party and the world loves it.”
Err, wasn't it a lot easier for women not to walk through all those streets for the time being than passing any legislation or measure? Just asking.
Quote:Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, accused the Venezuelan “opposition” on Wednesday of being “terrorists and extremists” who operate “outside the Constitution and the law.”
Maduro’s accusation was specifically directed at the Unitary Platform, the latest iteration of the Venezuelan “opposition” coalition, which the socialist regime met with for negotiations in Barbados last year intended to culminate in a “free and fair” presidential election sometime in 2024.
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Maduro accused the opposition of “terrorism” during a speech at the opening ceremony of Venezuela’s 2024 judicial year, where he remarked on the Venezuelan top court’s decision to uphold a ban on opposition presidential frontrunner María Corina Machado from holding public office.
“That decision was the product of an impeccable process of dialogue promoted by us, by the Bolivarian government, a process of persistent dialogue with the master and his servants,” Maduro said, referencing the United States and the Unitary Platform, respectively.
Venezuela’s socialist regime has consistently accused dissidents of being “lackeys” of the United States, a tactic shared with the other regional authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Nicaragua:
The socialist dictator availed himself of the opportunity to insult Machado, branding her as “Mrs. Hatred, Mrs. Tantrum, Mrs. Violence.”
Although the Venezuelan electoral authorities have not yet announced a date for the upcoming “free and fair” election, Maduro recently announced that his regime’s lawmakers will start working on an electoral schedule proposal next week. The socialist dictator has reiterated that the decision to ban Machado — who, according to polls published last year, would easily defeat him in a real election — is “firm” and will not be overturned.
In apparent discord with Maduro’s remarks, his longtime henchman and alleged drug lord, Diosdado Cabello, suggested on his Con el Mazo Dando (“Hitting with the Mallet”) socialist television show that the sham electoral event could take place in March.
Quote:Bolivia’s economy has suffered over $680 million in losses as a result of sympathizers of Bolivia’s socialist former President Evo Morales rioting for ten days and counting against the socialist government of Luis Arce, Morales’ “disowned” successor.
The ongoing protests mark a new chapter in the rift between Arce and Morales who, despite being ineligible to run for president, is attempting to once again rule Bolivia, ignoring the two-term limits that the nation’s constitution explicitly sets.
The rioters are demanding that the Bolivian government replace the members of its top court with new elections. The justices’ terms were extended beyond their expiration dates due to parliamentary disagreements in the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. The Bolivian constitution allows the nation’s electorate to choose its top-level court justices.
The protests erupted on January 22, weeks after the Bolivian Constitutional Court disqualified Morales from running for a fifth presidential term, reaffirming that the Bolivian constitution only allows a person to serve as president or vice-president of Bolivia for a maximum of two terms.
Morales ruled Bolivia between 2006 and 2019 across four terms, a feat he managed to achieve after forcing the courts in 2017 to issue a dubious ruling that stated that presidential term limits were a “violation” of his human rights. The controversial ruling was issued after Morales called for a referendum in 2016 to amend the constitution by removing presidential term limits, which failed to pass.
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