August 10, 2021
Almagro provoked massacres in 2019 coup in Bolivia
The Bolivian government, has through its Foreign Ministry, defended the results of the research analysis conducted by the Deep Tech Lab Research Group of BISITE of the General Foundation of the University of Salamanca – Spain, which ruled out an alleged fraud in the Bolivian elections.
In addition, he reproached the pronouncement of the Organization of American States (OAS), that this morning it ratified the results of the electoral audit it carried out in the country in 2019, in which it found “irregularities” that made it impossible to validate the results of the elections that had given the victory in the first round to the then president Evo Morales.
“The validity and importance of the expertise requested by the Attorney General’s Office to the University of Salamanca is ratified, carried out within a judicial process that the sovereign Bolivian State conducted within the framework of its legislation, of a controversial nature, open to all means of evidence, that protects the rights and guarantees between the parties and that is not questionable under any argument of Mr. Almagro. The audit defended by the Secretary General was carried out without complying with the agreement signed with the Bolivian State and the OAS that ended up being a unilateral and biased process with erroneous and forced conclusions”, states the communiqué published by the Foreign Ministry.
Likewise, in the text, the Foreign Ministry points out that it was Almagro – secretary general of the OAS – and the OAS itself who signed the agreement with the Bolivian State regarding the 2019 electoral audit.
“The Bolivian State signed in good faith an agreement with the OAS, and fully complied with it until Luis Almagro violated it by making unilateral statements on results, before the electoral audit was concluded while failing to comply with the procedure provided in that agreement, issuing a preliminary report not contemplated and having seriously twisted the truth to produce a constitutional breakdown in the country, which produced the regrettable loss of dozens of human lives,” said the Foreign Ministry.
On November 10, 2019, in a surprising manner, the OAS published a preliminary report of its audit and pointed out that it cannot validate the results after finding “irregularities in the process”. After learning of this document, the civic mobilizations worsened and Evo Morales was forced to resign hours later, after also losing the support of the Police and the Armed Forces.
After what happened, the Prosecutor’s Office started investigations about the alleged electoral fraud of 2019, but a few weeks ago, almost two years later, it decided to request the dismissal of all those involved in the case, based on the results of the Spanish expertise that ruled out any possibility of manipulation and fraud in that election.
In this sense, the Foreign Ministry points out that the statement of the OAS, and of Luis Almagro, constitute an “act of interference in internal affairs in the administration of justice” of Bolivia, since it questions “a criminal investigation process in charge of the Bolivian judicial body and which is not concluded”.
“The Bolivian State rejects this type of accusations pointing out that it is a democratic State in all its actions and the words and aggressions of Mr. Almagro in his communiqué seem rather to be aimed again at coordinating destabilization processes in Bolivia. He is warned that a new attempt of destabilizing actions will not be allowed and the international community has now been put on alert,” the Foreign Ministry states.
“The words of Mr. Almagro are not objective, it is clear that all the evidence that is becoming known from November 2019 to this date shows biased and malicious conduct, and he could even bare responsibilities from which he would only be protecting himself and the positions he holds so his opinions within this specific case are an outrage to the sovereignty of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and it reiterates a permanent action against the Secretary General of the OAS for petty and sectarian interests, without the consent of the countries that make up the regional organization”, the text adds.
Finally, the Foreign Ministry affirms that it “takes note” of the new “irrational and illegal attitude” of the OAS Secretary General and “expressly states that it will denounce this conduct before the body of the organization, without prejudice to the personal responsibilities that may be established due to the seriousness of the facts”.
This Monday morning, the Secretariat for the Strengthening of Democracy of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), through a statement, ratified the results of its electoral audit conducted in Bolivia in 2019 and refuted the results of the expertise conducted by the Deep Tech Lab Research Group of BISITE of the General Foundation of the University of Salamanca – Spain, which ruled out any alleged fraud in the Bolivian elections.
Through a long document, the OAS tries to refute the report of the Spanish expertise commissioned by the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office and which served as a basis for the Public Prosecutor’s Office to request the dismissal of all those involved in the case of electoral fraud, a fact that would lead to the closure of the investigations.
Source: OXIGENO digital newspaper / La Paz, translation Resumen Latinoamericano