NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

June 10, 2020

The Times only covered the problems with the OAS analysis after a study from three independent researchers found flawed data and analysis.



Bolivia’s Evo Morales in 2008. (Joel Alvarez, Wikimedia Commons)

By Eoin Higgins
Common Dreams

More than seven months after claims of fraudulent elections sparked an undemocratic coup that led to the ouster of Bolivian President Evo Morales, The New York Times late Sunday reported on new research showing the U.S.-led Organization of American States used flawed data and analysis to support its widely cited contention the voting was rigged.

“It was clear from the start, but now even the NYT is admitting: what happened in Bolivia was nothing short of a coup by the U.S. and its OAS puppet, deposing one of the most successful democratically elected leaders in modern Latin American history,” tweeted journalist Glenn Greenwald in response to the Times reporting.

Link to tweet

As Common Dreams reported in November, U.S. officials cited the OAS report on the election as a justification for backing the coup that deposed Morales, the left-wing Indigenous former president.

Despite reporting from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) casting doubt on those claims within 24 hours of the OAS making them, the Times only covered the problems with the U.S.-dominated organization’s analysis after a study (pdf) from three independent researchers found the same results.

More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/10/nyt-finally-gets-around-to-reporting-oas-fraud-election-claims-in-bolivia-were-bogus/