Rugoz wrote:Morales ignored a binding referendum result that denied him more terms.
His party appealed it to the constitutional court and it was overturned. You know, like how the remainers tried to overturn the UK Brexit referendum.
Now, onto the stuff that actually matters (I'm sure you'll admit you don't care about the technicalities of the Bolivian constitution any more than I do, given you are making excuses for a military coup):
Rugoz wrote:Then there were serious and suspicious technical issues with the electronic voting system such that the OAS refused to verify the result.
The "serious and suspicious technical issues" were a result of serious flaws in the OAS's own analysis,
as even the New York Times admitted (as usual, long after the damage was already done and far too late to do any good).
It was something as basic as the OAS formatting the "time" column in a spreadsheet
alphabetically, meaning that 10pm came immediately after 1pm when they sorted it - leading to their "suspicious spikes in votes for Morales".
Rugoz wrote: Anez fell upwards, if anything she was just a pawn.
For a "pawn" and a mere "interim" leader, her government was very keen to throw its weight around and try to cement its hold on power. Hence the whole "giving the police and military immunity for killing protesters" thing,
pursuing MAS members for "corruption", muzzling journalists, detaining opponents, and so on.
Rugoz wrote: Elections were scheduled for May, but were delayed due to Covid.
The coup government delayed the elections on three separate occasions, leading to
mass protests and
general strikes throughout August and
September.
JohnRawls wrote:Reality check Heisenberg. It is the leftist regime that is imprisoning people and the right side that conducted a free election.
It's abundantly clear that you either didn't follow any of the events in Bolivia between October 2019 and October 2020, or you are deliberately ignoring them. The coup government massacred people. It imprisoned Morales supporters and journalists, and tried to muzzle journalists. It only caved to a free election after months of mass protests. Your characterisation is utterly divorced from reality.
JohnRawls wrote:Not to mention that although you might not like it, resource extraction is a lucrative business and some people support it because it brings in money and work.
I have no problem with resource extraction and neither did the MAS government. The problem they had was with resource extraction
for the benefit of foreign companies, which is why Morales terminated Bolivia's contract with ACI Systems
following protests against it.
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