{"id":21608,"date":"2020-10-20T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21608"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:19:56","slug":"democracy-has-won-year-after-right-wing-coup-against-evo-morales-socialist-luis-arce-declares-victory-in-bolivia-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21608","title":{"rendered":"‘Democracy Has Won’: Year After Right-Wing Coup Against Evo Morales, Socialist Luis Arce Declares Victory in Bolivia Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION .<\/p>\n

An article by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams<\/a> (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License)<\/p>\n

A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a brutal far-right regime, Morales ally Luis Arce declared victory in the South American nation’s high-stakes presidential election early Monday after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors.<\/p>\n

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\nBolivia\u2019s leftist presidential candidate Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism party celebrates with running mate David Choquehuanca early on October 19, 2020 in La Paz, Bolivia. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/center><\/p>\n

“Democracy has won,” Arce, who served as Morales’ finance minister, said in an address to the nation after one exit poll showed him leading the race with 52.4% of the vote and former president Carlos Mesa in a distant second with 31.5%. Right-wing candidate Luis Camacho\u2014an ally of unelected interim President Jeanine A\u00f1ez\u2014won just 14.1% of the vote, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported that “if the exit poll numbers are confirmed by the official count, which was being tabulated slowly late Sunday, it would be more than enough to avoid a November runoff and claim outright victory.”<\/p>\n

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Why was Morales ousted from Bolivia by a coup d\u2019etat?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Arce characterized his apparently decisive victory, which even A\u00f1ez was forced to acknowledge, as a mandate to continue the policies of the Morales government, which lifted millions of Bolivians out of poverty and expanded the nation’s economy.<\/p>\n

“I think the Bolivian people want to retake the path we were on,” Arce said Monday.<\/p>\n

Twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sunday’s election was a do-over of last year’s presidential contest, which was thrown into chaos after the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) leveled baseless allegations of “fraud” by Morales, who was eventually forced to resign and flee the country under threat by Bolivia’s military.<\/p>\n

The coup against Morales sparked a wave of Indigenous-led protests that were violently repressed by the Bolivian military and police forces, which were granted sweeping immunity from prosecution by the anti-Indigenous A\u00f1ez government.<\/p>\n

“The OAS allegations were indeed the main political foundation of the coup that followed the October 20 election three weeks later,” Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, wrote last month. “But they provided no evidence to support these allegations\u2014because there wasn’t any. This has since been established repeatedly by a slew of expert statistical studies.”<\/p>\n

From exile in Argentina, Morales on Monday celebrated Arce’s apparent victory as a “great triumph of the people.”<\/p>\n

“Brothers and sisters: the will of the people has been asserted,” Morales tweeted. “This is an overwhelming victory… We are going to give dignity and liberty back to the people.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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