A report by two American researchers, belonging to the Laboratory of Electoral Sciences and Data of the prestigious Technological Institute of Masasachusetts (MIT), states that there are no elements to suspect there was fraud in the elections held last May in Bolivia.

MIT investigators John Curiel and Jack R. Williams, authors of the investigation, in statements to the Washington Post, said: "There is no statistical support for fraud claims."

The conclusions of the report contrdict the position held by the Organization of American States (OAS), invited by the Government of Evo Morales itself as an observer to certify the cleanliness of the elections. The OAS maintained since the publication of the final results that there was fraud, assuming the opposition's arguments, and requested the repetition of the elections.

The OAS attitude triggered a consecutive series of events: violent actions by organized opposition groups, the police uprising and finally the intervention of the army, causing what many analysts described as a coup d'etat, which resulted to the exile of President Evo Morales, the vice-president and many of his collaborators, followed by violent repression and persecution against his party, the MAS, as well as numerous social and indigenous organizations that supported him.

The call for new elections, by the current unconstitutional government of Bolivia, has begun with serious limitations and an open persecution against leaders of the MAS and Evo Morales himself, who has been denied his candidacy for senator, while the polls point that MAS is the first force in preference.

In this tense context, the unexpected report of the MIT specialists has not gone unnoticed and has already provoked the first important reaction: the spokesman for the Mexican Foreign Ministry has declared that the report “calls into question the analysis of the Organization of American States and what was expressed by its Secretary General, Luis Almagro”, while anticipating that his country will officially request that a third party make a comparison of both reports.