Bolivia's new emergency law: keeping order, or troops against protesters?
Bolivia's legislature passed a law regulating 'states of exception' that can deploy the military, as police and protesters clash at road blockades. The government calls it lawful order; critics call it a licence to crush dissent.
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Backers frame the law as simply regulating states of exception and protecting public order against blockades and unrest — a normal tool of a government defending an elected president.
Opponents say the law lets the government send troops against protesters, warning it legalises repression as police and demonstrators already clash at road blockades.
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