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    Great news, interesting contrast in coverage Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on October 19, 2020, 5:09 pm, in reply to "Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia's Elections"

    from the usual suspects including the fraudian. They've been spewing articles about "their girl" Jacinda Ardern and her "landslide" victory (64 of 120 seats) but they buried the Bolivia story in their "Americas" section; so it wasn't on the front page, not in "World" news, although it has now been given a small place there.

    Their first paragraph is:

    Exit polls suggest Evo Morales’s leftwing party has pulled off a stunning political comeback in Bolivia’s presidential election, although an official result has yet to emerge.

    Ha. Like they are giving themselves some room later when their imperial masters have decided whether they are going to try and discredit or overturn the result.

    Also some selective memory going on with their reporting of history:

    Arce vowed to end the uncertainty that has plagued his bitterly divided nation since October 2019, when hotly disputed claims of vote rigging against his party resulted in mass street protests, the presidential election being scrapped and Morales being forced from the country by security forces in what his supporters call a racist, rightwing coup.

    No, not what "his supporters call". It was exactly that. Perhaps one of your team of fearless independent journalists could, you know, dig into who was behind that or something? Useless wankers.

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