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In times of misinformation, the non-truth is so ambitious that it even seeks to justify electoral fraud, such as the one in Bolivia last year. "It is further evidence of the monumental robbery that Mesa, Áñez, Camacho and Almagro made to all Venezuelans," Evo Morales boasted after making the last Chavista assembly public in the United States.
The blog 'The Monkey Cage', hosted on the Washington Post website, had just released an intranscendental statistical report commissioned by Nicolás Maduro's main lobbyist in the US, Mark Weisbrot, an old man known in Venezuela for his relationship with Hugo Chávez.
The report, made by two technicians trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that statistically the "blackout" of 23 hours during the Sunday of October 20 election would not have affected the trend in favor of Morales, who needed exceed 10% advantage to avoid the second round . On Sunday night, when the count was stopped by official order, the Aymara leader surpassed Carlos Mesa by only 7.87%.
The immediate response of the OAS was conclusive: "The article is not honest, neither based on facts nor complete. Above all, it is not scientific. It contains innumerable falsehoods, inaccuracies and omissions." And, above all, it focuses only on one of the many irregularities found.
The organization, directed by Luis Almagro, reveals that the article ignores the main discoveries of its technicians : changes in the counting sheets, falsification of the signatures of the election officials, the existence of two hidden and unauthorized servers where data were manipulated and Counting sheets, lack of chain of custody and inexplicable inconsistencies in the number of votes cast were falsified. The European Union, which had its own team, "supported the findings of the OAS and presented evidence of other irregularities . "
The objective is clear: to justify the electoral fraud proven by the OAS and turn it into a "coup d'etat", facing the May elections, where the Movement To Socialism (MAS) intends to regain power.
Even the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, ally of the MAS and from where Evo directs the pre-campaign of his party, echoed the report signed by two investigators to ensure that "he criticizes with singular hardness, for his inconsistency, the audit conducted by the OAS As I always pointed out, the rule of law was violated in Bolivia with the actions of the Armed Forces and opposition sectors. "
Maduro, Ecuadorian former president Rafael Correa, Colombian Gustavo Petro, Juan Carlos Monedero, among others, plus Bolivarian propaganda media were launched from the first minute to support the operation mounted in Washington.
"As far as electoral fraud was known, it was a political and non-statistical mechanism. But now MIT experts arrive and discover gunpowder. And on top of that they are so technical and impartial that they begin their study talking about a coup d'etat," Carlos Malamud warned, Latin American researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute.
Behind the report is Mark Weisbrot, director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a mixture of hooligan and Chavismo adviser since the time of Chavez , who even accompanied actor Sean Penn on his visits to the "eternal commander." "With Maduro he got even closer to the government, as an advisor. He is a recognized economist in the United States, so much so that Jeffrey Sachs has written with him. At least since 2017-2018 he has been advising the government, but as I understand no they pay him a lot of attention, "Mariano de Alba internationalist detailed to EL MUNDO.
It is not much less the first misleading report released by Weisbrot, who last year, along with Sachs himself, said that 40,000 people had died because of the sanctions . A team of Venezuelan economists, led by Ricardo Hausmann, undressed the data of both, who casually forgot the destruction of the Venezuelan economy throughout the revolution. Today the fall of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) since the arrival of Maduro to power is close to 70%.
Interviewed by EL MUNDO in 2015, Weisbrot explained his previous talk with Pablo Iglesias, now vice president. "I found it very intelligent and pragmatic," summarized the economist.
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