Comment: The silver lining in democratically-elected govts falling to military coups in Latin America is that the US can dispense with all that 'rules-based democratic order' BS and just start banning everything it doesn't like.
Cotas, a non-governmental operator and the leader in the Bolivian paid television market, sent a notice to RT on Wednesday that the Spanish service would be taken off air on December 2.
"This is a decision taken by the company's administration, which tasked us with shutting down the channel's broadcast," said the statement, without going into any other details.
It's unclear if the move was the initiative of the company's management or if there was any pressure from the government in La Paz that came to power after ousting President Evo Morales in a military-backed coup earlier this month.
The new government, led by conservative Senator Jeanine Anez, has been facing large-scale protests by supporters of Morales, whose party still has the parliamentary majority. More than 30 people were killed in clashes with police and the military so far. The government warned politicians from Morales's party, Movement to Socialism, against "disloyalty" to the new authorities - while threatening journalists not to engage in what the new communications minister called "sedition."
Former Vice President of Bolivia Álvaro García Linera told RT:
"There's no freedom of expression nor freedom of press in the country, but there's prosecution of some leaders, murders, yet there are no culprits found. What constitutional freedom can be there if journalists are not allowed to do their job, to inform and tell the truth?"Earlier this month, RT Spanish broadcast was also shut off in Ecuador, after the interior minister in Quito complained about the coverage of local protests.
RT's Ilya Petrenko has more details in his report:
From Collective Evolution:-
They’re Killing Us Like Dogs: A Massacre In Bolivia and a Plea for Help
An excerpt reads: “The military has guns and a license to kill; we have nothing,” cried a mother whose son had just been shot in Senkata. “Please, tell the international community to come here and stop this.”
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