Evo Morales: Overwhelming evidence of election fraud in Bolivia, monitors say

Reuters reports for BBC News: An independent international audit of Bolivia’s disputed election in October has detailed “deliberate” and “malicious” efforts to rig the vote in favour of then-President Evo Morales. The Organization of American States (OAS) said the measures included hidden servers and falsified signatures. Mr Morales fled to Mexico after the army urged…

Vader pastor witnessed Bolivia political crisis

By Celene Fitzgerald, The Centralia Chronicle reports for TDN, photos from The Daily Chronicle: Pastor Tracy Durham of the Vader Assembly of God Church got uncomfortably close to the political unrest in Bolivia earlier this fall, experiencing some tense moments at street barricades but ultimately siding with the protesters in their cause against a socialist…

Election Fraud Aided Former Bolivian President, International Panel Concludes

Anatoly Kurmanaev reports for The New York Times: Charges of voting fraud that led to protests and the exile of President Evo Morales have been confirmed in a final report by the Organization of American States. An independent international audit of Bolivia’s disputed election concluded that former President Evo Morales’s officials resorted to lies, manipulation and forgery to…

The Morales critics within Bolivia’s indigenous community

TRT World reports: The former Bolivian president is credited with lifting many out of poverty and for spurring economic growth, but some in the indigenous community believe his legacy is not as rose-tinted as is portrayed. When former president Evo Morales won the 2005 election, he became Bolivia’s first indigenous president from the Aymara community,…

How Bolivia’s Mighty Morales Has Fallen

Raul Peñaranda writes for NPR News: Raúl Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist, former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and author of a book on former President Evo Morales’ efforts to control the media in Bolivia. Peñaranda is the editor of the news site Brújula Digital. He was the most important Bolivian leader of the…