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?
My moms was held for almost 3 years pre trial in a county jail before transferring to a state facility for 2 more years. The county jail had privatized visits 5 bucks/5min after an initial 15min zoom meeting (not face to face). The state prison was even worse. Any true left wing movement will have to include the 4th world- undocumented, homeless, incarcerated and disenfranchised populations. in global capitalism the proletariat must identify and align internationally.
“YOU WILL BE SENT TO THE :gulag: !!!”
“Oh no! What is the gulag like?”
“You have to live in a kinda crappy studio apartment for a few years.”
“Oh… Can I watch movies?”
“Yeah, sure, whatevs.”
“I think I’ll be okay.”
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.
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.
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
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.
She is quite the slob without servants, I see.
