Details emerge of new right-wing coup plot in Bolivia

[Judi Lynn]

STEVE SWEENEY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2020

Sources tell the Star the country is on the verge of a bloodbath




A supporter of the Movement Towards Socialism Party fights with an opponent of former President Evo Morales outside a court of justice in La Paz, Bolivia, earlier this month


BOLIVIA is on the verge of a bloodbath, the Morning Star was told today, after details emerged of another plan by right-wing forces to derail next week’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

It is alleged that a new plot has been hatched that involves a mobile phone app, allowing Bolivians to record which way they voted. The plan is to use data to undermine the legitimacy of the vote.

According to sources, the technology has been developed by Edgar Villegas, who is understood to have been the mastermind of last year’s coup, which saw the ousting of democratically elected president Evo Morales.

It is claimed that Mr Villegas provided data on Excel spreadsheets to Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal using a formula created by himself that manipulated information to show voting irregularities: claims that have since been proven to have been unfounded.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. More from the article. It's what you'd expect to hear, if you've followed recent history there,

which, of course, follows all history since the invasion, tortures, massacres, terrorism of the indigenous people by the Spanish conquerors, and, in later days, by the other European racists.

“[The right-wing plotters] are willing to do anything for the economic interests of the protagonists and with the support of those interested in the exploitation of lithium.” Bolivia holds about 7 per cent of the world’s known resources of the valuable metal.

On Sunday footage circulated of what appeared to be a serving Bolivian soldier who claimed that Interior Minister Arturo Murillo was conspiring with army generals in a sinister plot to massacre indigenous people and launch a coup, should Mas win the election.

The unidentified soldier said that Mr Murillo has armed paramilitaries with weapons and ammunition supplied by the US.

“We have been ordered to shoot to kill indigenous people,” he appears to say in the recording.

Sounds exactly as if our dumb #### is trying to reignite the era of right-wing dictatorships throughout the Americas, fully supported by power-mad interests here.