Pretty Disturbing

I saw this post yesterday for the first time. The more I read it and the more I think about it, the more utterly disturbing I find it. We just had an impeachment in the US because a President tried to overturn a democratic election. The impeachment was an attempt to hold the President accountable. (This coup was unsuccessful.) In Bolivia, there was a successful coup. The resulting junta government killed many hundreds of Bolivian people, including many indigenous citizens. Now, when the legitimate government is trying to hold these criminals to account, this is what the US Secretary of State tweets out. We have a Democrat in the White House and his Secretary of State is putting out tweets worthy of Mike Pompeo. It is deeply upsetting and--along with some other things the Biden Administration has done in the area of foreign policy--raises serious concerns about Biden's policies. We must do better than this Yankee Imperialism.

We are deeply concerned by growing signs of anti-democratic behavior and politicization of the legal system in Bolivia. The Bolivian government should release detained former officials, pending an independent and transparent inquiry into human rights and due process concerns.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) March 27, 2021