Writer
25 November 2021
From fraud to fraud?
In addition to the electoral fraud that Evo Morales carried out in October last year, apparently, another fraud occurred against the people in October 2020; it means that national democracy is not worth a damn, because not even the vote, of which we all brag about, has value. Morales provoked a fraud that the OAS censored, the European Union agreed with, and even Morales himself recognized, who decided to annul those elections and make a new call for elections, which the citizens did not accept. Then, seeing that the electoral trap had no solution, the MAS, in order to clear the dirt from the face of its boss, now declared persona “non grata” in Peru, invented the story of the “coup d’État”, a subject that has remained as an irrefutable dogma within their ranks.
One of the arguments that the MAS maintains in support of the coup’s invention is that a year after those tricky elections, Mr. Arce Catacora won the general elections with a surprising 55%, leaving out Carlos Mesa, the candidate of the moderate line, who, according to the polls, could aspire to obtain the necessary to go to a ballot to define the Presidency.
But nothing is impossible in Bolivia and even more so in politics. It is very likely that there would have been fraud in the elections that Evo Morales won in 2014, as there was certainly in 2019 and, perhaps, in 2020. The surprise for that 55% that Arce obtained was enormous. But Bolivians are either very confident or very slow, because just after a year, Mrs. Rosario Baptista, a former Tribunal member of the Electoral Power, has opened our eyes by having announced the existence of an inflated electoral register, where there would be more than one million and a half “ghost voters.”
But is it possible that we have been taken for a ride again? Frankly, we can’t believe it. We are ashamed of the mere idea that the MAS has regained power with another consecutive trap. And that, in addition, they brag about their triumph and accuse us that we were coup plotters because as Arce won last year, there was no mystery for Morales to win in 2019. They rub this in to our naive people and show it abroad, who stare in amazement at these unstable Bolivians who, according to that, do not know what they want.
If what the former Tribunal member Baptista affirms is true, that there would be no reason for her to lie, it means that we were and that we are in front of a Supreme Electoral Tribunal where dishonest characters swarm to obscenity. If the former Tribunal member Baptista had already warned, some time ago, that there was a “parallel electoral register,” which earned her a sanction from the Tribunal, how was it possible that we remained with the same disaster? Did the Electoral Power reach such an extreme of submission and fear of Morales? As much panic as the Legislative and Judicial Powers have? Is this the democracy we brag about and celebrate every October 10 for almost 40 years? Could it be that Bolivian democracy has become muddy to the neck since the 2009 Constitution and has been sinking more and more into the quagmire? Or as Mrs. Baptista says, could it be that this democracy is nothing more than an illusion generated in the people? Just an illusion for the unwary?
Today we find ourselves before a Government that persecutes and insults, aggressive as none has been seen for a long time. This was demonstrated by Arce last Sunday in the Plan Tres Mil zone, calling the people of Santa Cruz fascists. Every dissident enters his telescopic sight, which is nothing other than obsequious and rotten justice. It is the same method that Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua use. Aiming at the head of the enemy that bothers them to apply the law with a trigger that kills the adversary and benefits the power.
This administration, which is beginning to be questioned, scaring those who exercise it, not only targets Camacho, Calvo, Reyes Villa, and Arias but, due to their fear, they target political leaders, opposition parliamentarians, and all journalists who have the right to be curious; even more so, if there is so much talk that we would be under the grip of an intolerable illegal authority, imposed by a detestable deception. If Rosario Baptista’s denunciation is true, this Government should not expect any submission or respect from Bolivians.
Source: https://eldeber.com.bo/opinion/de-fraude-en-fraude_256357
