The OAS, as expected, was aligned with the losers and opted to question the voting system and electoral law which states verbatim, “The candidate who surpasses the closest opponent by ten percentage points is declared the winner.”

President Evo Morales has described OAS action as an attempted coup against the Bolivian people, while the U.S. government, in addition to guiding the OAS, took direct action from its embassy in La Paz.

The Organization of American States insisted that “there is sufficient reason to suggest a second round…” and called a meeting of its Permanent Council in Washington, where the Bolivian electoral process was questioned, the possibility of fraud raised, and a call made for a second round vote, among other issues, with the sole purpose of denying Evo’s victory.

U.S. ambassador Carlos Trujillo dared to say that the delay in the vote count was due to the fact that Morales’ party was not winning.

While Nicaragua’s representative, Ruth Tapia, warned, “The OAS has no authority to intervene in the internal affairs of sovereign countries.” Similarly, Mexican ambassador Luz Elena Baños stated, “The report presented by the OAS must await the full count of electoral records.”

For its part, the Jubileo Sur Américas network has published several articles on its website recently, exposing crude U.S. interference in Bolivia’s electoral process.

Reports indicate that ships loaded with weapons have been traveling from the United States, specifically Miami, to the Chilean port of Iquique. This cargo is then shipped in containers declared as miscellanea.

Bolivian citizen Juan Carlos Rivero has also been denounced as responsible for purchasing weapons in the United States and sending them to the National Military Coordinator in Bolivia. This person has direct ties with Manfred Reyes, an opposition politician based in Miami, who is also linked to the U.S. Embassy in La Paz.

Other articles published on the Jubileo Sur Américas website indicate that U.S. diplomatic headquarters have been continuously monitoring the delivery of weapons and ammunition through secret collaborators. They have met with central leaders of the Bolivian opposition to address financing and offer advice on planned violence.

With this backing in their favor, losing opposition candidate Carlos Mesa and his closest collaborators have called for destabilizing actions, while seeking to declare themselves winners and create a kind of parallel power in the department of Santa Cruz.

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Faced with this situation, Evo issued a call: “To my colleagues and the Bolivian people, to my sisters and brothers, to organize, prepare, and we will defend democracy,” PL reported.

The President stressed that he is confidently waiting for the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to issue its final report.

Meanwhile, the opposition called a civic strike in Santa Cruz, and stated that they will ignore the constitutional government of Morales and install what they called “a new constitutional President.”

For her part, the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, María Eugenia Choque, insisted that she “has nothing to hide” and guaranteed the transparency of the vote, rejecting allegations of fraud by candidate Carlos Mesa and sectors that support him.

The transparency of the elections was highlighted by the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, in his remarks at the preparatory ministerial meeting for the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement: “We congratulate the people and government of Bolivia for the transparency of the electoral process they have conducted. We congratulate President Evo Morales for the preliminary results obtained, which confirm decisive popular support for his government, results that we expect to be confirmed.”He denounced the campaign of misinformation, destabilization, and violence underway, staged by sectors of the opposition and instigated by the United States, threatening the peace and security of citizens in Bolivia.

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On his official Twitter account, Díaz-Canel commented that Bolivia continues left on the Latin American political map. “Despite the continental right’s media war, Evo won for the fourth time. Congratulations brother President,” he wrote.

Evo Morales won the elections held October 20 with 46.86 percent of the vote, a difference of ten percentage points over Carlos Mesa, thus avoiding a second round, according to preliminary results, as reported by teleSUR.

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Although all ballots, including those from isolated rural areas traditionally favorable to Evo, were yet to be counted, the opponent Carlos Mesa began to celebrate the need for a second round, which no one had confirmed. Mesa told the media that, if Evo won, he would not be recognized by opponents and a call would be made to not accept the popular verdict.The governments of Brazil, Argentina, the United States, and the OAS quickly agreed with Mesa and began to question the Electoral Court and the vote counting system.The uncertainty created as to whether there would be a second round was fueled by the fact that the Electoral Court has not provided new reports, due to the remoteness of several rural areas and the difficulty involved in transporting ballots to the counting and verification centers.

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