Dan Collyns reports for The Guardian: Disputed victory will likely stoke tensions after days of angry clashes and allegations of vote tampering made by opposition Evo Morales has narrowly won a controversial fourth presidential term just as tens of thousands of Bolivians marched in the administrative capital, La Paz, and cities across the country on the fourth…
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FOUR NATIONS MAKE DEMANDS TO BOLIVIA – CUATRO NACIONES HACEN EXIGENCIAS A BOLIVIA
ANSA reports for Grupo La Provincia [En español, más abajo]: BOGOTA, OCT 24 – The governments of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and the United States today demanded to Bolivia that the OAS be the one that verifies the outcome of the presidential elections or that there is ballotage as mechanisms that guarantee the result of…
Presidential challenger Carlos Mesa seeks Bolivia’s day of ‘destiny’
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Around noon, people from El Alto will start a march towards La Paz downtown, and Fernando Camacho, Gustavo Pedraza, Rubén Costas, Oscar Ortiz and others are also going from Santa Cruz to join that march. Bolivians are united to end the electoral fraud under evo. I just pray that we remain united…
Evo Morales claims victory in contentious Bolivian election
Andres Schipani reports for the Financial Times: President holds wafer-thin lead over rival with 98.5% of ballots counted President Evo Morales has claimed victory in a contentious Bolivian election following official results showing he was ahead by a whisker. “We have already won in the first round,” Mr Morales told reporters in La Paz on…
‘There Could Be a War’: Protests Over Elections Roil Bolivia
Ernesto Londoño reports for The New York Times: Although early vote counts showed close results, President Evo Morales declared himself the outright winner, saying he did not need to face a runoff. President Evo Morales of Bolivia on Wednesday claimed that he won Sunday’s election by a margin wide enough to avoid a runoff, escalating…
Bolivia election: Tension rises as Morales’ lead expands
BBC reports: Protests have intensified in Bolivia as the incumbent president, Evo Morales, has again reached the lead needed to win the presidential election outright in the first round. With 98.4% of the votes counted, he had a 10.1-percentage point lead over his main rival, Carlos Mesa. He needs a 10 percentage point advantage to…
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