This is because - let us be blunt - the CEPR are partisan hacks, who rather sadly have spent the last several months gaslighting Bolivians and providing a pseudo-academic veneer to claims that last year& #39;s #Bolivia election was squeaky clean. https://twitter.com/jderpic/status/1302689200202895360">https://twitter.com/jderpic/s...

Fortunately, this could simply not be more irrelevant in #Bolivia now. We& #39;re 6 weeks from an election here which will be thoroughly monitored & scrutinised, will hopefully be fair (& no indications it won& #39;t be) & which should finally deliver a gov& #39;t with democratic legitimacy.

So why are the CEPR bothering? It& #39;s part of a campaign against the OAS, which a few months ago was operating with the goal of ensuring that the OAS *didn& #39;t* come to monitor the elections here. (Why would the MAS and its friends want that I wonder?)

Now? Honestly no real idea. (And the OAS, along with many other observers, are coming.) It& #39;s almost certainly to do with geopolitics though, & so *yet again* #Bolivia & Bolivians are being used as pawns in other people& #39;s squabbles, with zero regard for the country& #39;s wellbeing.

Here is another very good thread on the subject:

#Bolivia https://twitter.com/ChrisBolivia/status/1302729016076644353">https://twitter.com/ChrisBoli...