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Fully support the findings of the @ OAS_official report recommending new elections in # Bolivia to ensure a truly democratic process representative of the people's will. The credibility of the electoral system must be restored.
As is usual, mass media's reporting on this story is in full alignment with the U.S. State Department, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also advancing the "disputed election" line in a tweet shortly before the forced resignation of Morales. Pompeo cited the evidence-free and discredited allegation of suspicious vote tallies during Morales's re-election last month from the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS). As Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic & Policy Research explains in a recent article for The Nation, the OAS receives 60 percent of its funding from Washington, which gives the U.S. tremendous leverage over the supposedly neutral and international body.
This ties in interestingly with what we discussed the other day about Washington's known history of using its disproportionate financial support for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as leverage to force that supposedly neutral and international body to comply with U.S. agendas.
The field of narrative management keeps making more and more advances.
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