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sandensea

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Thu Oct 24, 2019, 08:15 PM Oct 2019

Bolivia's Evo Morales claims election victory after contested tally; opponents demand second round

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday that he has won a fourth term in office after a controversial vote count that sparked protests across the South American nation.

Opposition leaders, meanwhile, accused Morales of election fraud and called for more demonstrations to demand a second round of voting. Morales has warned of a “coup attempt.”

Tensions continued to escalate in the Andean nation of 11 million, which this week became the latest in Latin America to erupt in violent anti-government demonstrations. Protesters burned and looted election offices Monday night after the socialist president emerged from an unexplained gap in the publication of election results in better shape than he entered it.

The government elections tribunal Thursday showed Morales approaching the 10 percentage-point lead needed to avoid a runoff election in December.

With 100% of the votes from Sunday’s election counted, Morales was at 47.1%; his main rival, former President Carlos Mesa, was at 36.5%.

At: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/bolivias-evo-morales-claims-election-victory-after-contested-tally-opponents-demand-second-round/2019/10/24/b17b592c-f666-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html



Bolivian President Evo Morales during a press conference yesterday in which he accused the opposition of fomenting a coup.

Opposition candidate Carlos Mesa, a centrist, demanded a second round after results showed Morales barely exceeding the 10 percentage-point lead needed to avoid a runoff election in December.
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Bolivia's Evo Morales claims election victory after contested tally; opponents demand second round (Original Post) sandensea Oct 2019 OP
The European descendants in Santa Cruz, the Half-Moon area, tall and white, as Miss Bolivia claimed, Judi Lynn Oct 2019 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. The European descendants in Santa Cruz, the Half-Moon area, tall and white, as Miss Bolivia claimed,
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:47 AM
Oct 2019

as she also mentioned they are the ones who are able to speak English, have despised the native Bolivians from the first, and a revolution had to be won first, in the 1950's before the Andean people, the original Bolivians, could even vote. They were not allowed to walk on the sidewalks if a European descended (white) person was walking there, and had to step off into the street. That rule was put aside, in a way, also in the 1950's, but the virulent racism never lifted.

Evo has been hated from the first by the white ones. Branko Marinkovic is powerful in Santa Cruz, a man whose parents fled Europe after WWII because they were connected to the Nazis, and moved to Bolivia. He has been the center of extreme racism and hatred of the Andean natives throughout. Branko Marinkovic is enormously wealthy. His parents were Croatian Ustase. I just looked up Ustase in Wikipedia, and found the following:

The Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret), commonly known as Ustaše (pronounced [ûstaʃe], Croatian: Ustaše), was a Croatian fascist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization,[2] active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945. Its members murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews,[3] and Roma as well as political dissidents in Yugoslavia during World War II.[4][5][6] They were known for their particularly brutal and sadistic methods of execution, which often included torture and dismemberment.[7]

Much of the ideology of the Ustaše was based on Nazi racial theory. Like the Nazis, the Ustaše deemed Jews, Romani, and Slavs to be sub-humans (Untermenschen). They endorsed the claims from German racial theorists that Croats were not Slavs but a Germanic race. Their genocides against Serbs, Jews, and Romani were thus expressions of Nazi racial ideology. However, the Ustaše viewed the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats," not Slavs, and as a result did not persecute Muslim Bosniaks on the basis of race.[8]

In addition to Nazi racial theory, the Ustaše ideology incorporated fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism.[4] The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade.[9] The movement emphasized the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promoted genocide against Serbs, Jews and Romani people, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustashe

An old graphic of Branko:







He was the center of a storm trooper mob of young men, who want to separate Santa Cruz from Bolivia, because Santa Cruz, besides being controlled by white people, is also enormously wealthy, containing a lot of oil, and enormous, profitable agricultural properties.

The UJC, or Cruceno Youth Union terrorists load up trucks of young men carrying clubs with embedded barbed wire, drive into indigenous people's neighborhoods, and beat the bejesus out of them, in addition to occasional massacres, and the odd murders, tortures, etc.









During the time after Bolivian police uncovered an assassination plot by European mercenaries against Evo Morales, and went to arrest them, killing a couple in the process, it was discovered that Branko Marincovich was involved in arranging and financing, and he has fled the country.

The other racists, and their intention to destroy everything they can't control, remain.

Anyone having curiosity about how much is true he/she reads about Bolivia, please just start diving into research, looking for the truth, and you will find it.

Take the time to discover how far Evo has brought the country, and rescued so many Bolivians from their lives of hopelessness, crippling poverty, hunger, disease, etc., and compare where they are now to where they were when the oligarchs took everything in the country for themselves.

Remember, they call Evo the "f*cking Indian" and remember they have already tried multiple times to kill him, and that they also refer to the indigenous and original Bolivians as "llama abortions."

There's no question whatsoever will happen to the majority of Bolivians, who happen to be indigenous, if the people do not continue to have good representation in the Bolivian government. Their lives will go back to hell in a handbasket without someone in government who doesn't despise them for being "llama abortions."

Carlos Mesa? Why would the indigenous people want him back in their government? Please take a moment to see this:


Following Massacre, Bolivians Demand Extradition of Former President Residing in the U.S.
Ten years ago, following the violent suppression of the Bolivian people, the U.S. facilitated the safe passage of Bolivia's disgraced president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to Maryland.



Aldo Orellana López
Oct 21, 2013 in Alternet

On the night of October 17, 2003, Bolivians were witness to an extraordinary split-screen spectacle on their televisions. On one side was the image of the nation’s President, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, fleeing by commercial airliner for the United States. On the other was the image of Sánchez de Lozada’s Vice-President, Carlos Mesa, taking the Presidential oath before the Bolivian Congress and asking the nation to observe a minute of silence for the more than 60 people killed during government repression over the previous month. Last week marks the 10th anniversary of Bolivia’s Octubre Negro, or Black October.

The Gas War
The events that would oust a sitting President and alter the course of Bolivian politics in deep and lasting ways began in September 2003 as news spread of Sánchez de Lozada’s plans to export Bolivia’s gas and oil at bargain prices through Chile to the U.S. Soon popular uprisings against the plan exploded across the Bolivian highlands. Sánchez de Lozada – a close ally of the U.S. whose 2002 election was managed by Bill Clinton’s campaign team – had already presided over a wave of repression in February of that year. In his efforts to meet a command for economic belt-tightening from the International Monetary Fund, the President imposed new taxes on people earning as little as $100 per month. The round of protests and repression sparked by that move left 34 people dead. When the new protests over his gas plans erupted, his response with troops, violence and bloodshed was more severe still.

In the end, even his own Vice-President broke with him and Sánchez de Lozada’s only remaining ally was the U.S. Embassy. That U.S. support prolonged the violence for another week until the U.S. finally facilitated the disgraced President safe passage to suburban Maryland where he has lived a decade unaccountable for his massacres.

“Glory to our martyrs fallen in the Gas War!! Long live the city of El Alto.” These were the words this week as mourners in Bolivia’s highlands visited the graves of their family members murdered in September and October 2003.

More:
https://democracyctr.org/article/following-massacre-bolivians-demand-extradition-of-former-president-residing-in-the-u-s/



Relatives carrying images of their loved ones murdered in the massacre.















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