EDITORIAL
The president of Bolivia has given up staying in power after three weeks of demonstrations that ignited the country. The army and the police had demanded his resignation. Can we speak of a coup d'etat as its entourage affirms? Not really, according to our international editorialist Vincent Hervouët.
"Bolivia is the world champion of coups d'etat, denounce them is to be indignant at the mafia in Sicily or strikes at the SNCF Evo Morales himself has dropped two elected presidents: Sanchez de Losada in 2003 Carlos Mesa in 2005. Both hunted by rioters that the trade unionist Evo Morales had warmed to white, then he moved to the Palace and he held 13. Three terms. In order to make it a fourth, he organized a referendum, he lost it, and he obtained the right of self-represented judges to run for office.This is a legal coup d'etat. Election, the partial results announced a second round that would have been fatal to Evo Morales.The counting stopped.When he resumed, Morales was saved.He proclaimed winner.
According to the audit of the Organization of American States, there has been extensive manipulation of the computer system.
It's a computer coup. There followed three weeks of chaos, three dead, 400 wounded, and the country was divided between those of the Altiplano and the others of the eastern province, including the business community that the United States supports. Sunday, ministers, deputies saw their house burn, their relatives taken hostage. The army barred the road to the armed groups in favor of the president. The police mutinied. And the COB, the powerful union that is a state in the state, held by relatives of the president has let it down. This time, Evo Morales missed his shot.