On April 29, Bolivia’s de facto president, Jeanine Áñez, announced that the country would be moving into a “dynamic quarantine” phase on May 11. This decision was intended to alleviate the social and economic repercussions of the pandemic by loosening
Yet Another Analysis Fails to Support the OAS’ Delegitimization of Bolivian Elections
Guilty until proven innocent. That appears to be the electoral fraud approach favored by Walter D. Valdivia and Diego Escobari in their recent piece in Project Syndicate. It is also the exact approach the OAS had a responsibility to avoid in their audit
Could a progressive U.S. administration marshal economic power at the service of people, not capital?
Since the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez took power in early November 2019, the human rights situation in Bolivia has significantly deteriorated.
This study focuses primarily on the “Final Report” of the OAS audit of Bolivia’s election results and shows how that report’s authors misrepresent data and evidence found in the audit in an attempt to further bolster claims of intentional manipulation.
This report finds that Morales’s victory can be explained by his voter support before the preliminary vote count halted, through three analyses of the vote prior to the cutoff at 84% of the vote count.
We’re still waiting for the full results of the Iowa caucus. In Bolivia, the United States backed a violent coup against Evo Morales for even less.
Latin America Advisor: The Trump administration’s current and future behavior in Bolivia can best be forecast by its strong support for the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Evo Morales on November 10.
From unlikely caretaker emerging from obscurity, to presidential candidate with a growing set of international allies, Jeanine Añez has successfully made her zealous foreign policy a stalwart of her political strategy.
