{"id":176838,"date":"2020-03-09T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/09\/finally-5\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:07:00","slug":"finally-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/09\/finally-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"
Someone in the mainstream media FINALLY <\/b>called the Organization of American States (OAS) over its bogus calls of election fraud in Bolivia<\/a>:<\/div>\n

It is difficult to imagine that Evo Morales would have left office<\/a> when and how he did \u2014 in a civic-military coup \u2014 if the Organization of American States had not found that Bolivia\u2019s Oct. 20 election was fraudulent.<\/a> To be sure, the OAS did not single-handedly bring down Morales. In the weeks before the coup, Morales faced large protests and a devastating police mutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The protests did not focus solely on the election. Many were upset Morales was allowed to run at all after losing a 2016 referendum asking voters to approve his bid to seek a fourth term. The police mutiny centered on officers\u2019 disgruntlement over pay and being asked to contain the protests. And the Bolivian right had declared that Morales could win the October election only through fraud for months before the vote, i.e., well before the OAS stepped into the fray.<\/p>\n

Yet, the OAS actions were undoubtedly important in creating a climate within which a coup could not only succeed, but be applauded as a necessary step toward restoring Bolivian democracy, as the U.S. government<\/a> and mainstream media did. In fact, the opposite has occurred. Following Morales\u2019s ouster, Bolivia has come under the control of a right-wing authoritarian regime<\/a> that has killed dozens of unarmed protesters, detained hundreds, blocked<\/a> international human rights investigators, systematically repressed political opponents, threatened journalists and media outlets, embraced racism, and enacted a far-right agenda for which it has no electoral mandate nor constitutional legitimacy.<\/p>\n

The question of whether the OAS was justified in declaring the October election fraudulent looms large. In a recent article<\/a> published in The Post, John Curiel and Jack R. Williams, researchers with MIT\u2019s Election Data and Science Lab, conclude the answer is no. Curiel and Williams used statistical analysis to analyze a central claim made by the OAS \u2014 initially in an Oct. 21, 2019, news release \u2014 that there was a \u201cdrastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results\u201d following an election-night suspension of the unofficial rapid vote count. According to the OAS, this is one of numerous pieces of evidence showing fraud. Curiel and Williams unequivocally reject this, writing: \u201cAs specialists in election integrity, we find that the statistical evidence does not support the claim of fraud in Bolivia\u2019s October election.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The OAS is an organ of the US regime change mousketeers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone in the mainstream media FINALLY called the Organization of American States (OAS) over its bogus calls of election fraud in Bolivia: It is difficult to imagine that Evo Morales would have left office when and how he did \u2014 in a civic-military coup \u2014 if the Organization of American States had not found that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,375,394,485,374,494],"class_list":["post-176838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-foreign-relations","tag-latin-america","tag-politics","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}