THE PERUVIAN ELECTORAL RESULTS PUT THE LIE TO LUIS ALMAGRO’S CLAIM OF FRAUD IN THE 2019 ELECTIONS IN BOLIVIA

The first results in Peru on Sunday favored Keiko Fujimori, but when the rural votes started coming in Pedro Castillo took the lead. That was exactly the pattern in Bolivia in 2019 when Evo Morales had greater support in rural areas whose votes were the last to get counted. Almagro’s bogus allegation of electoral fraud triggered the coup against Morales that brought the rightwing Jeanine Añez to power. The fallacy of Almagro’s claim was obvious at the time, but now the Peruvian example drives the truth home.

 

With Pedro Castillo’s election as president, and the triumph of progressive candidates in the presidential elections of Chile, Colombia and Brazil that are soon to take place, it will be possible to revive UNASUR and CELAC. It will also be possible to bury Almagro’s Organization of American States with its legacy of interventionism that has overthrown numerous democracies and installed repressive regimes throughout the region.