 So last November as I explained in the beginning there were presidential elections in Bolivia Morales claimed victory the army said no it was rigged They forced him to stand down Aaron is going to talk about how left-wing figures in in this country said look this is a coup He was he was democratically elected in the army of over thrown him and many people Let's say we've other shades of politics said Jeremy Corbyn's an idiot Why is he defending someone who's just rigged an election talk us through it? Yeah, so I'm sure you remember it's from last year We'll get a tweet up from Jeremy Corbyn Typically astute when it came to matters of foreign policy to see at Evo S Pueblo who along with a powerful movement has brought so much social progress, which is inarguable in Bolivia Force from office by the military is appalling Bolivian people and stand with them for democracy social justice and independence on the hashtag elmundo con evo the world with evo F. O. Morales being the president of Bolivia 15,500 retweets And then you can you can sort of laugh and look at people in the comments being abusive to him What's interesting is that that was very much odds with what you see from for instance the Guardians diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour Who had his own take on it Saying whatever his record as president and he's retweeting Jeremy Corbyn saying this ballot stuffing is wrong So this take on Bolivia by the Labour leader is truly startling the organization of American states more on them in a second Found a quote heap of observed irregularities in the October 20th election instead a new vote should be held Then adding to that the observer view and ever Morales and Bolivia and it talks about how Morales Didn't deserve to rule any longer and that there was some legitimacy to him being overthrown now Unlike the Guardian unlike the observer the Washington Post does original journalism They went to the massachusetts institute of technology And they have determined in a study that actually there was no electoral fraud in the october presidential election Casting doubt on the prior findings as i've said issued by the organization of american states They found that evo Morales did indeed win in the first round of voting And they've thrown out the oas accusation that Morales's government manipulated the results So we're not talking navara media squawk box the canary. This is washington post and mit You don't get more legitimate authoritative liberal institutions in the world Saying that actually Morales won and he was subject to an undemocratic coup And it's just interesting to see that you know Politicians can make wrong call Jeremy Corbyn's called some things wrong before But the instinct of certain people then the sort of centrist Punditocracy to attack him and lambast him and say you're wrong. Oh my god, you're always on the wrong side Really illustrates the complete peculiarity that they have when it comes not just to principles But to political literacy in regards to foreign affairs Corbyn on this issue as so often elsewhere has been proven correct Likes of david oronovich the guardian the observer and many many more of these people who Perceives themselves to be on the left. I would argue on foreign policy or anything, but Have found to be on the wrong side. Did you show the the tweet from um Dominic raab You know Dominic raab's going to talk shit, but the take for me was more the left Yeah, but I think I've got the current foreign secretary So he has quote tweeted the Jeremy Corbyn tweet that you read out and said Unbelievable the organization of american states refused to certify the bolivian election because of systemic flaws The people are protesting and striking on an unprecedented scale, but Jeremy Corbyn puts marx's solidarity ahead of democracy It turns out Jeremy Corbyn was just backing A leader who had just won a free and fair election to become president And what Dominic coming not Dominic raab. Sorry was doing was during a general election Even though he is the foreign secretary. That's his job. You know, he's the kind of guy who should actually you know be Be a bit more careful about Saying that an election is is is illegitimate Uh, he used it as a cheap shot against the the leader of the opposition and he's been proved wholly wrong And I'll wait an apology from Dominic raab I'll just show you the ideology. Yeah, the ideology at the heart of it's sickening. You know, I mean one of the Documentaries I grew up with was watching war on democracy by John Pilger about the kind of systematic manipulation of democratic processes in South America by what America or the United States regard as its backyard Um, you know, it was a kind of neocolonial approach to running South America. Um, you know, most notably Salvador Yende's coup against him And interesting connections that have emerged with you know, the Rolls Royce workers in Scotland, for example and and efforts to sort of express solidarity with that um back in the 1970s, but I think The key thing for me was even looking at um, mark weiss brought what a really good Twitter thread on this and is written extensively about this believing election where he's making the point that The process itself was flawed and people jumped on the initial results because it was a quick count phase Which was ideally meant to give the population confidence that the votes were being counted There was a real time process because in Blivvy in some South American countries it takes several days for the eventual results to emerge And but that actually caused real confusion in this election because there was a big rural urban divide and the way the votes were counted so that Actually, the support that Morales was getting was actually lagging because he wasn't get he was getting the rural vote And it took longer to bring in and that's where the the organization american states Thank you and said it wasn't it wasn't possible for him to make that jump in the final third of the votes counted and that's where they started to throw all these kind of um These were shades of doubt onto the the contest and that's where eventually the whole thing fell apart. So it's interesting that the very Gold standard processes that were insisted on by the oas have actually ended up undermining the confidence in the election And it was Morales that agreed to the the rerun um and still the the army stepped in and and You know, it wasn't like he was resisting another electoral test But the army nonetheless stepped in and removed him. I think that's in anyone's definition at a coup d'etat Chris jankin asks this is a difficult question I'm not sure if any of us are going to know the answer to this Do you think there's any chance of Bolivia returning to socialist government now that it's been proven the last election was legitimate I would open a free and fair election that clearly the popular vote was supporting Left left-wing candidates. So hopefully that would be The case, but it's difficult to tell how it would play out The problem with or or why, you know, the army have an advantage in these kind of situations is because once you've done a coup People are going to be very resistant to undoing it, aren't they? And if you think oh, maybe there'll be international pressure There's never going to be international pressure to reinstate a leftist government Right, so so it's the kind of thing where if this had been done by the left Yeah, the united states would be there, you know at the security council saying you've got to redo this You've got to redo this. But if it's ever Morales who lost out, you know, a leftist who's resistant to their imperial power in that continent then I mean, I'm not an expert in Bolivia politics, but my guess would be You know, they're not they're not going to write that wrong