• obvs@lemmy.world
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    The U.S. are not trying to “prosecute” leaders of other countries.

    They are trying to KIDNAP leaders of other countries.

    NOT the same thing.

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      Subjecting foreign leaders to US law is an incredible overreach of power that nobody even mentions. The precident of everyone in the world being subject to US legal frameworks is insane power grab.

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    I await the time someone invades America to kidnap that fat orange fuck.

    Should be pretty easy. He golfs in Florida 6 days a week.

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    Very misleading summary of the events that led to Morales’s ouster. He’s just another wannabe dictator. Not that that excuses the US’s meddling.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_general_election

      Morales, who had pledged to respect the OAS audit, agreed on 10 November to hold new elections, at a date to be determined. Hours later he and his vice president Álvaro García Linera were forced to resign from office after losing support from the police, the Bolivian Workers’ Center and the military. The President of the Senate and the President of the Chamber of Deputies – both party allies of Morales – resigned on the same day, exhausting the constitutional line of succession. As a result, the second vice president of the Senate, Jeanine Áñez of the opposition Social Democratic Movement, assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia on 12 November 2019.

      there’s definitely dispute over whether the elections were illegitimate (it seems at least the NYT first declared them rigged, then backtracked) but calling it a military coup is complete spin. he stepped down voluntarily in response to violent nationwide protests.