LA PAZ - Bolivian leader Evo Morales on Wednesday repeated his claim of victory in a presidential election and accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup, after mass opposition-led protests since the Sunday vote that claimed the counting was rigged.
In a fiery early-morning speech at the government office in capital city La Paz, leftist Morales criticized recent violence that saw electoral offices torched and skirmishes between protesters and police, which he blamed on the right-wing opposition and what he described as their foreign backers. Unrest in the country began after an official quick vote count was disrupted by a near 24-hour halt late on Sunday, when Morales claimed his party would win outright despite initial numbers showing the two main rivals heading to a second round.The tensions mark the most severe challenge to Morales’ near 14-year rule of the land-locked nation, since he came to power in 2006 as the country’s first indigenous leader.
I know Bolivians in Bolivia, the coup is his doing to keep the him in power
The US wouldn’t mind a government change in Bolivia. Republicans Democrats Philosopher
It’s a fraud
Boo not rigged.
Elections are as farce in these countries as the existence of sanity itself BoliviaElecciones
Criminal asshat! He is a self proclaimed dictator... and the world will do squat to stop him... people need to revolt and throw him out on the street before they get to where Venezuela is.
It can be called democracy only when we wins. Any other result, it is a coup.
Fraude
Foreign influence ? Sorry to be the one to tell you, no one really cares enough about Bolivia to go through that trouble...
Morales Dictador Populista.
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