The Organization of American States, a supposedly neutral election observer, helped legitimate last year’s coup in Bolivia by falsely claiming Evo Morales had committed election fraud. And now it’s observing today’s elections
The Nation: The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.
Two new interviews recorded for a new podcast, “While We were Sleeping,” offer useful context for the October 18 general elections just carried out in Bolivia.
Bolivians go to the polls October 18 in the first general elections since democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced out in a military coup.
The re-election in March of Luís Almagro, the Organisation of American States’ secretary general, will prolong the cold war climate that has settled over Latin America these past few years.
New details about the recent Latin American operations of a US public relations firm called CLS Strategies illustrate that Americans are not just on the receiving end of manipulative social media campaigns, but are participants in them as well.
In Latin America, organized social media manipulation campaigns have already become a go-to strategy for many right-wing movements and governments.
The Guardian: Bolivia has descended into a nightmare of political repression and racist state violence since the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown by the military on November 10.
This was not an objective, scientific investigation into the election, but a way of defending an indefensible analysis cooked up in advance
