• Bolivia.Evo Morales announces that he will call new elections in Bolivia
  • Crisis: Police rebellion in Bolivia forces Evo Morales to negotiate

Against the ropes. Evo Morales has failed to appease the country with the call for new elections in Bolivia, immersed in a spiral of uncertainty and violence caused by electoral fraud committed during the computation of the general elections of October 20. The reverse of the indigenous leader, who for three weeks had called on his supporters to defend his "triumph" in the streets, has not slowed down the impetus of the opposition leaders or the doubts of a divided country.

They were joined by Williams Kaliman, commander in chief of the Armed Forces, who yesterday suggested the president to resign his mandate, and Yuri Calderón, general commander of the Police, who directly requested the termination of Morales.

The fissures in the official bosom have become large cracks , increased with the resignation of César Romero, Minister of Mining, which gave way to the cessation of the holders of Hydrocarbons and Sports. A rosary of senior officials including the president of Congress, the vice chancellor, the governor of Cochabamba, senators and mayors.

The preliminary report of the Organization of American States (OAS), which confirms the "gigantic fraud" denounced by the opposition , weighs tons on Evo's broad back, a devastating blow to his present and future that even already involves several ordered arrests by the State Attorney General's Office. Three members of Santa Cruz were captured by the Police, who also raided the house of the powerful María Eugenia Choque, president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), located in the center of the scandal that emerged at the polls.

The response of the Armed Forces, neutral at the beginning and active today in defense of the protesting people, and the rebellion of the police also confirmed the solitude of the powerful indigenous revolution in its efforts to eternalize in power. The Army went further by ensuring that it would reduce armed groups.

The political and social tsunami that has surprisingly struck Bolivia has distorted the official plans, ready to keep the Aymara leader in charge of the country until 2025 . Evo Morales committed to enrocating the best Chavista style and denouncing fictitious coups, which has finally burst in his nose is an electoral fraud that weakens him as never before after 14 years of monolithic presidency.

The ruling party has not been able to measure the malaise that the 2016 referendum has already generated, in which 51% of Bolivians spoke out against facilitating a new reelection for Evo. The ally of Venezuela and Cuba ignored the people and then imposed their judgment on the most important courts in the country.

The political bombing occurred very early in La Paz, shaken by the police rebellion and the burning of headquarters of the Socialism Movement (MAS) and houses of governors, including the president's sister, in other areas of the country. "I have decided to renew the members of the TSE (Supreme Electoral Tribunal) and call for new general elections," the president told his country, while imploring to end the violence in a call to peace.

The response of Carlos Mesa, opposition candidate, made clear from the outset that the tsunami against Evo does not want to abate: "The main perpetrators of this fraud and the social upheaval that has caused several deaths and hundreds of wounded, Evo Morales and ( the vice president) Álvaro García Linera, are disabled to preside over the new electoral act, in addition to which any type of extension of the mandate of these authorities would be absolutely unacceptable ".

" Evo has fractured the constitutional order and must resign . So too the senators, deputies and members of the Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court," added Luis Fernando Camacho, leader of the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, the main engine of the citizen protest . Camacho led a march to the capital and was even taken refuge by the Police in one of his barracks, with the intention of presenting Morales with a letter to sign his resignation.

The OAS report gives the reason without palliatives to those who denounced the "gigantic fraud" from day one. The two main keys are the "serious" irregularities found in the voting system and the statistical improbability that Morales had obtained the necessary margin of 10 points of advantage over the candidate of the Citizen Community. The OAS recommends starting again from the first round "as soon as there are new conditions that give new guarantees for its celebration, including a new composition of the electoral body."

A slap against the revolutionary abuses, which tried to copy without success the formula used by Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in the 2013 presidential elections. "The manipulations to the computer system are of such magnitude that the Bolivian state must investigate them deeply to reach the bottom and assign responsibilities in this serious case, "continued the OAS report, supported by its secretary general, Luis Almagro.

Up to 14 observations on the official calculation have demolished the revolutionary wall after 20 days of protests, during which three opponents died after being attacked by official clash groups.

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