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Spreading Bad Information on Elections in Bolivia

Submitted October 28, 2005 - 11:18 pm by Luis Gomez
As always, our little colleagues from the international news services are contributing to the general chaos. In this case, kind readers, we can’t let that happen, because even Evo Morales seems to be falling into their trap…

Let’s make this very clear: in the climate of tension that the new distribution of congressional seats — endorsed by the Constitutional Tribubal — has caused, the National Electoral Court (CNE) has expressed its technical inability to carry out its organizational and logistical duties, BUT IT CANNOT SUSPEND ELECTIONS, because it is not empowered to do so.

Nevertheless, probably in order to sell more copy, both EFE and UPI are going around shouting that the CNE has suspended elections.

This issue, which may seem pretty insignificant, is a delicate one, because aside from accusing Congress (as EFE’s reporter does), they don’t mention the heart of the issue: it was the members of the Santa Cruz right wing (with the complicity of those from Cochabamba) that closed the doors to an agreement on the congressional seats: that is what is impeding the realization of the December 4 elections. The CNE is just an institution that threw the first stone at the democratic system, one which everyone is now following…

Don’t let yourselves be confused, kind readers. The villains of the story are the members of Santa Cruz oligarchy (and not their messengers from the CNE)… people who couldn’t find anything better to do than find a way to sabotage a process that, according to the polls, doesn’t seem to be favoring them much…

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