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Personnel note: Carlos Trujillo adds ‘Senior Advisor’ at Marcman Solutions to growing résumé

'Working alongside Russell and the Marcman Solutions senior team embodies a commitment to effecting meaningful growth and success for our clients.'

Continental Strategy founder and former Donald Trump Amb. Carlos Trujillo is joining Marcman Solutions as a Senior Advisor. The move adds to Trujillo’s growing résumé as he continues run Continental Strategy offices in Washington, D.C., and Florida.

A lawyer and former state Representative, Trujillo brings knowledge on U.S. and Latin American politics and business and has strong ties to the Hispanic community, as well as to state and national leadership across the Americas.

In his role at Marcman Solutions, Ambassador Trujillo will work hand-in-hand with the company’s executive leadership in addressing critical public and private sector challenges.

Continental, the lobby firm Trujillo founded just a few years ago, is now the No. 12 firm in executive branch lobbying compensation in Florida.

“We are honored that Ambassador Trujillo will deliver his experience and talents alongside the senior leadership of Marcman Solutions. Our clients in the public and private sectors will benefit from his extensive understanding of how to solve problems in the public and private sectors by leveraging relationships and subject matter expertise across the Americas,” said Marcman Solutions CEO Russell Marcus.

Trujillo added, “Working alongside Russell and the Marcman Solutions senior team embodies a commitment to effecting meaningful growth and success for our clients. I look forward to leveraging my background and relationships to navigate the intricate landscape of public and private sector challenges.”

In 2017, Trujillo was appointed by former President Trump to serve as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Trujillo led the Mission of OAS which is the oldest regional international organization in the world and held the Chair of the Permanent Council, Budget Committee and the Economic Development Committee.

Before his appointment at the OAS, Trujillo was appointed by Trump to serve as a Representative of the U.S. to the 72nd General Assembly of the United Nations under former Amb. Nikki Haley. In 2020, he was nominated by Trump to serve as the Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of State.

Trujillo previously served in the Florida House for eight years. During that time, he served in various leadership roles, including as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee which required him to appropriate and oversee an $83.5 billion dollar budget. Additionally, he served as Chair of the Economic Development and Criminal Justice subcommittees.

In February 2018, he voted against a motion to consider an assault weapon ban.

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One of the campaign promises President-elect Donald Trump made ahead of his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last month was to carry out the "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history."

According to a Sunday, December 22 Wall Street Journal report, the private prison industry is preparing to benefit greatly from the move — if Trump is able to accomplish it.

"Private prisons and other companies that provide detention services are getting ready to cash in on" the initiative, which "includes scouring for as many detention beds as possible in their networks of facilities, and scouting sites for new buildings to house migrants," the WSJ reports.

Per the report, George Zoley, who serves as executive chairman of the private prison company, GEO group, told investors soon after the election, "This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity."

The company, the WSJ notes, "which currently houses about 40% of ICE detainees, is looking at a potential doubling of all its services, Zoley said on the call."

GEO Chief Executive Officer Wayne Calabrese told the newspaper, "We have assured ICE of our capability to rapidly scale up to monitor and oversee several hundreds of thousands, or even several millions, of individuals."

WSJ reports:

*CoreCivic, the other major player in ICE detention centers, had a similar message for investors after the election. The company believes it could quickly bring its detention capacity to 25,000 beds by bringing unused ones online, including at a facility previously used to hold families in Dilley, Texas, CEO Damon Hininger said in an interview. The Biden administration chose to close the site earlier this year, but CoreCivic kept it in 'warm status,' Hininger said.

READ MORE:['Acknowledging reality': Fed chair says Trump agenda creating 'uncertainty around inflation'

Hininger, according to WSJ, said "in addition to identifying already-existing beds it could open, CoreCivic is also exploring adding new buildings or temporary facilities on land it already owns."

WSJ also notes, "To bolster its ties to the incoming administration, GEO Group recently hired a Trump-connected lobbying firm called Continental Strategy LLC, according to federal lobbying disclosures. The Florida firm is run by Carlos Trujillo, who advised Trump on Latino voters and immigration issues during the campaign. It also employs Katie Wiles, daughter of Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles."

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By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

12/13/2024

*With Daniel Lippman

THE FIRMS SEEING A TRUMP BUMP:A handful of firms with ties to President-elect Donald Trump are still raking in new clients as inauguration day draws closer. Ballard Partners, run by Trump ally and fundraiser Brian Ballard and the K Street home of Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi, has added seven new clients since the election last month, according to PI’s analysis of disclosure filings.

— The slate of new clients includes the Toy Association, which brought the firm on this month to provide “guidance and advocacy related to tariffs;” the AI drone image processor Safe Pro Group, which retained Ballard to work on issues related to land mine detection; and Texas child welfare group Compass Connections, for which Ballard will lobby on undocumented migrant children’s safety while in federal custody.

— Mercury Public Affairs, the former K Street home of incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles, signed five new clients since the election, disclosures show, with all but one of the new registrations listing Trump adviser Bryan Lanza as working on the accounts. Among Lanza’s new clients are the tech giant HP and Flock Safety, which sells drones for first responders and is facing a privacy lawsuit over its AI-powered license plate recognition cameras.

— As PI wrote last week, Continental Strategy, led by Trump adviser Carlos Trujillo, has also seen a surge in federal lobbying business. The firm has added six new clients since the election, including three disclosed this week: the Recording Industry Association of America, tech conference eMerge Americas and Arizona State University.

OURA RING LOBBIES UP:Biometric smart ring company and newly minted defense contractor Oura Ring has hired its first federal lobbyists. J.A. Green and Company, which specializes in defense lobbying, began working for the Finnish company in October, according to a newly filed disclosure.

— The Pentagon’s Defense Health Agency in October awarded Oura Ring a $96 million contract for smart rings for personnel. The health tech company is also being tasked with providing data analysis to monitor “physiological stress, recovery, resilience, and wellbeing indicators” gathered by the rings, and “workforce wellbeing services including high-performance medicine, mindfulness training, leadership coaching, protective factors, and peer-to-peer support training,” according to an announcement.

TGIF and welcome to PI. Send tips: coprysko@politico.com. And be sure to follow me on X: @caitlinoprysko.

READY TO MAKE NICE, PART I:“Top executives in the technology industry have long been a target of Donald Trump’s vitriol. As he prepares to return to the White House, they’re lining up to gain favor with the president-elect. Some come bearing checkbooks,” The Washington Post’s Caroline O’Donovan, Josh Dawsey, Leo Sands and Pranshu Verma report.

— “Google CEO Sundar Pichai was scheduled for a sit-down with him on Thursday. Salesforce CEO and Time magazine owner Marc Benioff celebrated his publication naming of Trump ‘person of the year.’”

— Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, meanwhile, aims to meet with Trump next week and has pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee through Amazon and is planning to stream the ceremony online as an in-kind donation. The check will be joined by $1 million from the personal bank account of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, who has criticized Trump in the past, and another $1 million from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who dined with Trump last month.

— “The corporate giants appear to be hoping for a fresh start with Trump, who has lambasted the industry as biased and anticompetitive” — and has announced plans to fill several key roles in his administration with officials who feel similarly — “and targeted some of the biggest tech companies with threats of punitive action.”

READY TO MAKE NICE, PART II:Republicans are about to assume control of Washington, and after four years of being on the outs with the GOP, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s hopes of mending ties have been placed on the shoulders of former Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), who sat down with our **Rachael Bade** this week to discuss how that project is going.

— Davis, who took the reins of the Chamber’s Hill lobbying operation this summer, repeatedly downplayed the notion of a falling out between Washington’s top business lobby and its future ruling class. He did concede there may be “some lingering frustrations” from “things that happened in the years past” — such as endorsing nearly two dozen vulnerable Democrats in 2020 and opposing Trump on issues like tariffs and the Paris climate accord.

— “But I have not witnessed that myself, with my interactions with my former colleagues,” he told Rachael. “What I have witnessed has been an outpouring of, ‘Hey, we want to continue — we want to work with you. We want to work with the Chamber.’”

— He pointed out that the Chamber endorsed more Republicans than Democrats this year and added that he remains close with and even discussed his new role with House leadership prior to it being announced. Davis also touted his campaign trail travel on behalf of House Republicans throughout the fall.

— Davis also told Rachael that he hadn’t spoken personally with Trump since Davis lost reelection in 2022 to a Trump-backed primary challenger and said he is “excited to be able to work with the Trump administration again” — even as one member of Trump world accused the Chamber of a tendency to “stab us in the back [with] one hand and shake our hand with the other.”

RELATED READ: “A Wish List From CEOs for the Trump Administration,” from The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council.

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https://floridapolitics.com/archives/323781-trump-trujillo-assistant-secretary-of-state

3/20

Trump announced Tuesday he was **appointing former Rep. Carlos Trujillo** to be an Assistant Secretary of State dealing with Western Hemisphere affairs.

The former state lawmaker **was rumored for the post last year**. The appointment will give Trujillo the power to influence U.S. policy with regard to Latin America and the Caribbean. He has been a sharp critic of several Latin American regimes. Most notably, he was an early backer of opposition leader Juan Guaidó of Venezuela as Guaidó attempted to wrest power from Nicolás Maduro.

Trujillo will also serve as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation (IAF). The IAF is an independent governmental agency created in 1969 to help develop communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Trujillo speaks both English and Spanish.

Trujillo currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS).

“Few individuals understand the ongoing complexities and threats our region is currently facing like Ambassador Trujillo,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said.

“Ambassador Trujillo dutifully represents America’s interests at the OAS and advocates for human rights, democracy, and regional stability. I have worked closely with Ambassador Trujillo for many years and have no doubt he will faithfully continue to represent the United States as Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.”

Republican strategist Susie Wiles also praised the appointment.

“Ambassador Carlos Trujillo’s new role at the Department of State is well deserved and could not have come at a more important time,” Wiles said.

“Carlos has served this country with great distinction and having a Floridian overseeing Western Hemisphere Affairs should make our state proud. Honored to call this smart and talented man a friend.”

In 2017, Trujillo temporarily worked as a Special Advisor to the United States Mission to the United Nations during the U.N. General Assembly.

Trujillo is a former member of the Florida House. He joined the House after winning a 2010 contest for the seat in House District 116.

Following a redistricting effort, Trujillo ran in 2012 for House District 105, where he again emerged victorious. Trujillo left the House amid his appointment to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, a post for which was later confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He was succeeded by Rep. Ana Maria Rodriguez.

Trujillo is also an attorney and is a founding partner of Trujillo, Vargas, Gonzalez & Hevia, LLP in Coral Gables. He also worked as a former Assistant State Attorney in Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit, which covers Miami-Dade County.

Trujillo is a former board member of the Public Health Trust of **Jackson Memorial Hospital**.

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carlos Trujillo (born February 25, 1983) is an American politician serving as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 until his appointment as ambassador.

In March 2020, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Trujillo to be the next Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and a member of the board of directors of the Inter-American Foundation.^[1] In July 2020, Trujillo participated in a hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for his assistant secretary nomination.^[2] Consideration of his board membership nomination has been delayed pending the submission of all required biographical and financial questionnaires.^[3][4]

History[

Trujillo was born on Long Island in New York and moved to the state of Florida in 1988. He attended Spring Hill College, graduating with a degree in business administration in 2004, and then the Florida State University College of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 2007. Following graduation, he served as an assistant state attorney for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, primarily dealing with felony prosecutions. He then started his own legal practice, Trujillo Vargas LLC which has now evolved to Trujillo Vargas Gonzalez Hevia LLP.^[5]

Florida House of Representatives[

When incumbent State Representative Marcelo Llorente was unable to seek re-election in 2010 due to term limits, Trujillo ran to succeed him in the 116th District, which included The Hammocks and Kendale Lakes, suburbs of Miami in central Miami-Dade County. He faced former State Representative Carlos A. Manrique, Francisco Amador, and Whilly Bermudez in the Republican primary, and he emerged narrowly victorious with 34% of the vote. Trujillo advanced to the general election, where he encountered only write-in opposition, winning with 97% of the vote.

In 2012, following the reconfiguration of state legislative districts, Trujillo ran for re-election in the 105th District, which contained territory that was radically different from what he had previously represented in the 116th District. Trujillo kept some of the precincts that he had represented in the Miami suburbs, and expanded to include vast amounts of rural Collier County and Miami-Dade County, stretching from Doral to Naples. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Paul Crespo, who presented a serious challenge. Trujillo racked up the endorsements of former Governor Jeb Bush and the Florida Chamber of Commerce,^[6] and ended up defeating Crespo with 56% of the vote. He advanced to the general election, where he once again encountered only write-in opposition, and won his second term with nearly 100% of the vote.

In February 2018, he voted against a motion to consider an assault weapon ban.^[7]

U.S. Ambassador to the OAS[

In October 2017, Trujillo was chosen by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States.^[8] Trujillo was confirmed by the Senate by a voice vote on March 22, 2018, and resigned from the Florida House the following day. He presented his credentials to OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro on April 5.^[9][10]

References[

^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint the Following Individuals to Key Administration Posts". The White House. March 17, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
^ "PN1710 — Carlos Trujillo — Department of State". U.S. Congress. July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
^ "PN1708 — Carlos Trujillo — Inter-American Foundation". U.S. Congress. March 18, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
^ "S.Res. 116, 112th Congress". U.S. Congress. June 29, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
^ "Trujillo Vargas Gonzalez Hevia LLP". Archived from the original on January 9, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
^ Derby, Kevin (July 30, 2012). "HD 105: Carlos Trujillo Faces GOP Primary Challenge from Paul Crespo". Sunshine State News. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
^ http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/20/assault-rifle-ban-bill-florida-house/
^ "PN1184 — Carlos Trujillo — Department of State". U.S. Congress. October 30, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
^ Daugherty, Alex (March 23, 2018). "Miami Republican Carlos Trujillo confirmed as U.S. ambassador to OAS". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
^ "Ambassador Carlos Trujillo Presents Credentials As U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States". U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States. April 5, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.

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Ambassador Carlos Trujillo was sworn as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States on March 30, 2018, and presented his credentials to the organization on April 5, 2018. A former prominent Florida attorney and politician, he served as the State Representative for the 105th District in the Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, Florida, from 2010 to 2017. He was a Founding Partner, of Trujillo, Vargas, Gonzalez and Hevia LLP, Coral Gables, Florida (2011 – 2017) and President, Carlos Trujillo, PA, Coral Gables, Florida (2007 – 2017.)

Known for his constituent advocacy, legal acumen and leadership, Ambassador Trujillo is fluent in Spanish and has a thorough understanding of Latin American politics. Prior to his ambassadorial confirmation, he also served as special advisor at the United States Mission to the United Nations.

Previously, Mr. Trujillo served as Assistant State Attorney, Miami Dade County State Attorney’s Office, Miami, Florida (2007 – 2011). He has been a member of three real estate holding companies in Coral Gables, Florida in recent years. Demonstrating commitment to public service, he also served as a Board Member, Public Health Trust of Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida (2015 – 2016).

Ambassador Trujillo earned a B.S. in business administration from Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama and a J.D. from Florida State College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida. He was Florida Prosecuting Association Legislator of the Year in 2016 and Florida Sheriff’s Association Legislator of the Year in 2015. He is married to Carmen Maria Mir of Coral Gables, Florida. Together they have four children – Carlos, Isabella, Juan Pablo and Felipe.

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New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times

The U.S. government and its media once again help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.

Glenn Greenwald

June 8 2020,

In this Nov. 27, 2019 photo, Bolivia's former President Evo Morales pumps his fist after a press conference at the journalists club in Mexico City. Morales went into exile in Mexico after he was prodded by police and the military, forcing him to resigned on Nov. 10, after he claimed victory in an election that international observers invited in by the government said was marred by numerous irregularities. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)In this Nov. 27, 2019, photo, Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales pumps his fist after a press conference at the journalists club in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) AP]

IN NOVEMBER 2019, Bolivia’s three-term left-wing president, Evo Morales, was forced by the country’s military and police forces to flee to Mexico after Morales, the prior month, had been officially certified as the winner of his fourth consecutive presidential election. It was unsurprising that Morales won. As the Associated Press noted in 2014, his governance was successful by almost every key metric, and he was thus “widely popular at home for a pragmatic economic stewardship that spread Bolivia’s natural gas and mineral wealth among the masses.”

While Morales’s popularity had marginally waned since his 2014 landslide victory, he was still the most popular politician in the country. On the night of the October 21, 2019, vote, Bolivia’s election board certified that Morales’s margin of victory against the second-place candidate exceeded the ten percent threshold required under Bolivian law to avoid a runoff, thus earning him a fourth term. But allegations of election fraud were quickly voiced by Morales’s right-wing opponents, leading to his expulsion from the country on November 11.

Once he fled, Bolivia’s first-ever president from the country’s Indigenous population was replaced by a little-known, white, far-right senator, Jeanine Áñez, from the country’s minority European-descendent, Christian, wealthy region. Her new, unelected government promptly massacred dozens of Indigenous protesters and then vested the responsible soldiers with immunity. Seven months later, Áñez predictably continues to rule Bolivia as “interim president” despite never having run for president, let alone having been democratically elected.

Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez addresses the nation at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. The message marked the anniversary of the naming of Bolivia as the "Plurinational State of Bolivia," by former President Evo Morales. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)Bolivia’s “interim” President Jeanine Áñez addresses the nation at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) AP]

The central tool used by both the Bolivian right and their U.S. government allies to justify the invalidation of Morales’s 10-point election victory were two election audits by the regional group Organization of American States — one a preliminary report issued on November 10, the day before Morales was forced from the country, and then its final report issued the next month — which asserted widespread, deliberate election fraud.

“Given all the irregularities observed, it is impossible to guarantee the integrity of the data and certify the accuracy of the results,” the OAS announced on November 10 as the country was in turmoil over the election. The next day, Morales, under the threat of force to him and his family, boarded a plane to Mexico, where he was granted asylum. The final OAS report in December claimed that “the audit team has detected willful manipulation” of the results based on “incontrovertible evidence of an electoral process marred by grave irregularities.”

But on Sunday, the New York Times published an article strongly suggesting that it was the OAS audit, not the Bolivian election, that was “marred by grave irregularities,” making it “impossible to guarantee the integrity of the data and certify the accuracy of the” OAS claims. The paper of record summarized its reporting this way: “A close look at Bolivian election data suggests an initial analysis by the OAS that raised questions of vote-rigging — and helped force out a president — was flawed.”

New York Times, June 7, 2020

To cast serious doubt on the integrity of these critical OAS reports, the Times relies upon a new independent study from three scholars at U.S. universities which — in the words of the NYT — examined “data obtained by the New York Times from the Bolivian electoral authorities.” That study, said the NYT, “has found that the Organization of American States’ statistical analysis was itself flawed.”

That study documented that the key “irregularity” cited by OAS “was actually an artifact of the analysts’ error.” It further explained that with regard to “the patterns that the observers deemed ‘inexplicable,’” the new data analysis shows that “we can explain them without invoking fraud.”

While this new study focuses solely on the OAS’s data claims and does not purport to decree the Bolivian election entirely free of fraud — virtually no election, including in the U.S., is entirely free of irregularities — the NYT explains that “the authors of the new study said they were unable to replicate the OAS’s findings using its likely techniques” and that “the difference is significant” in assessing the overall validity of the OAS’s claims.

”In sum,” the new report concludes, “we offer a different interpretation of the quantitative evidence that led the OAS and other researchers to question the integrity of the Bolivian election.“ Specifically, “we find that we do not require fraud in order to explain the quantitative patterns used to help indict Evo Morales.” The scholars’ bottom line: “we cannot replicate the OAS results.”

IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to overstate the importance of the OAS accusations in driving Morales from his own country and, with no democratic mandate, shifting power in lithium-rich Bolivia to the white, Christian, U.S.-subservient right. While critics had also accused Morales of improperly seeking a fourth term despite constitutional term limits, Bolivia’s duly constituted court had invalidated those term limits (much the way that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg induced the City Council to overturn a term limit referendum so he could seek a third term), leaving anti-Morales outside agitators, such as the OAS and U.S. officials, to rely instead on claims of election fraud.

On the day the preliminary OAS report was released, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited it both on Twitter and on the official State Department website to demand new elections:

Pompeo, in January of this year, visited OAS’s Washington office and heaped praise on the organization for the role its audit played in forcing Morales from the country — a move which Pompeo heralded by invoking the long Orwellian U.S. tradition of depicting pro-U.S. military coups as “pro-democracy”:

More recently, the OAS honored the former Bolivian government’s request to conduct an audit of the disputed election results. The probe conducted uncovered proof of massive and systemic fraud. It helped end the violence that had broken out over the election dispute. It helped the Bolivian Congress unanimously establish a date and conditions for a new election. And it honored – importantly, it honored the Bolivian people’s courageous demand for a free and fair election, and for democracy.

U.S. media outlets and foreign policy commentators dutifully echoed the U.S. State Department’s line, as they typically do, by depicting the violent military coup as an advancement of freedom and democracy for the Bolivian people (the same Bolivian people who had just voted for Morales to be their president). As a Washington Post op-ed in February by two MIT scholars noted: “The media has largely reported the allegations of fraud [from the OAS] as fact.”

Two days before Morales was forced to flee Bolivia, Johns Hopkins professor Yascha Mounk, who also covers foreign policy for The Atlantic, praised the coup leaders as “bravely standing up for democracy against a wannabe dictator,” and then, the following day, cited the preliminary OAS study as proof that the election was fraudulent:

On November 11, the day after Morales was forced to flee, Mounk wrote in The Atlantic that Morales got what he deserved, claiming, among other things, that he rigged the election: “The strong circumstantial evidence of vote tampering succeeded in inspiring what years of more subtle attacks on democratic institutions had failed to do: Millions of Bolivians went out into the streets to demand a fair election.” One point Mounk got right: The OAS report was decisive. “When an independent observer mission from the Organization of American States published its audit of the election yesterday, the game was finally up,” he wrote.

(Mounk, knowing that there are never consequences for serving as a puppet for U.S foreign policy, has said not a word about the new study debunking the OAS claims).

Former Obama foreign policy official and current Stanford professor Michael McFaul also cited the OAS report to cheer Morales’s fleeing as some sort of “excellent” blow for freedom and democracy, only subsequently to delete his tweet when it prompted criticism, acknowledging that he lacked the necessary information to form judgments:

The editor-in-chief of the ostensibly progressive journal Mother Jones, Clara Jeffery, had never previously evinced the slightest interest in or knowledge about Bolivia, yet somehow decided she was able to credibly snap into line behind the State Department by claiming that it was Morales — rather than the coup-plotters — who had “taken several end runs around a democratic process”:

It likely goes without saying that the reliably pro-western-coup magazine, The Economist, was also among those leading the way in echoing the U.S. State Department and cheering the coup as a victory for democracy. “The armed forces spoke up for democracy and the constitution against an attempt at dictatorship,” announced the magazine during the week Morales was forced into exile. The Economist also posted more than a dozen tweets during that week claiming it was Morales who posed the threat to Bolivian democracy by virtue of the OAS findings of fraud:

But as usual, the two news outlets most influential in disseminating and ratifying false anti-democratic claims from the U.S. government were the Washington Post and — though they neglected to mention it in their article yesterday on the debunked OAS findings — the New York Times itself. The Post, in its article the day after Morales was forced to leave, ratified the election fraud accusation in its headline: “Bolivia’s Morales resigns amid scathing election report, rising protests.” The article heralded the findings of what it called “the multilateral organization,” noting that the OAS found Morales’s victory “was marred by profound irregularities.”

A Post editorial from the same day proclaimed in its headline: “Bolivia is in danger of slipping into anarchy. It’s Evo Morales’s fault.”

The Post editorial decreed: “there could be little doubt who was ultimately responsible for the chaos: newly resigned president Evo Morales.” How could the victim of a coup — who had just been elected President — be at fault for the resulting chaos? Because, explained the Post’s editors, “an audit released by the Organization of American States reported massive irregularities in the vote count and called for a fresh election.”

The New York Times similarly and repeatedly hyped the OAS report as proof that Morales’s victory was illegitimate and the coup therefore democratic. “An independent international audit of Bolivia’s disputed election concluded that former President Evo Morales’s officials resorted to lies, manipulation and forgery to ensure his victory,” its news article claimed, without a syllable of critical pushback until the penultimate paragraph, where it noted that “some economists and statisticians in the United States” had pointed to flaws in the OAS’s data analysis.

But the paper’s editorial contained no such reservations, pronouncing Morales’s victory the byproduct of “a flawed election,” noting that “early suspicions of fraud by the Organization of American States helped fuel the protests and provided cover for the military to ‘suggest’ that Mr. Morales leave office.” The Times’s editorial then cited the final OAS report — which the paper yesterday called into question — as “substantiating those suspicions” by proving “‘a series of malicious operations aimed at altering the will expressed at the polls’ on Oct. 20.”

In sum, when it came to the 2019 Bolivian coup, the U.S. media played its decades-old, standard role whenever the U.S. wants to depict a military coup against a government it dislikes as a victory for democracy: Namely, it blindly and dutifully adopted the State Department’s view and uncritically waved the flag.

As documented in his great, new book on the CIA’s Cold War tactics, “The Jakarta Method,” journalist Vincent Bevins — whom I recently interviewed for SYSTEM UPDATE — recounts how, throughout the Cold War, the U.S. media served as a key propaganda arm of the U.S. government by reliably depicting overthrows of adverse regimes as a joyous advancement for democracy. As but one example, Bevins described how the CIA prevailed on the New York Times to suppress reporting about the savagery of the agency-supported coup-plotters in Guatemala and instead glorify them as “rebels” who were nobly fighting for democracy:

Vincent Bevins, “The Jakarta Method,” p. 45

Exactly the same formula was used by the New York Times and the bulk of the U.S. media when a U.S.-supported coup attempt in Venezuela failed in 2002 to depose the democratically elected President Hugo Chávez. In an extraordinary paragraph, the Times heralded the U.S.-favored coup-leaders in Caracas as the guardians and saviors of democracy, while the democratically elected president was somehow the “dictator”:

With yesterday’s resignation of President Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chávez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona.

The Times similarly lamented the dangers posed to Bolivian democracy back in 2014 as the result of Morales’s landslide victory at the polls. To the Times and the U.S. media at large, democracy is imperiled when a candidate disliked by the U.S. wins at the polls; conversely, democracy can be saved only when such elected leaders are overthrown and replaced by force with a U.S.-backed puppet.

The NYT editors, while conceding in 2014 that “it is easy to see why many Bolivians would want to see Mr. Morales, the country’s first president with Indigenous roots, remain at the helm” — namely, “during his tenure, the economy of the country, one of the least developed in the hemisphere, grew at a healthy rate, the level of inequality shrank and the number of people living in poverty dropped significantly” — nonetheless insisted that Morales should be regarded as an enemy of democracy because “the pattern of prolonged terms in power is unhealthy for the region” [notably, the NYT would never suggest that Angela Merkel’s “prolonged term in power” as German chancellor (15 years and counting) or Benjamin Netanyahu’s 4-terms-and-counting-in-power as Israeli prime minister pose a similar threat to democracy. This is a “concern” reserved by the U.S. media only for Latin American leaders disliked by the U.S. State Department].

At the end of its 2014 editorial on Bolivia and Latin America, the Times inadvertently revealed the real reason it disliked these elected leaders. Concern for democracy is the pretext. The real reason it wants those elected leaders gone was revealed by this candid sentence: “This regional dynamic has been dismal for Washington’s influence in the region.”

As U.S. media coverage of last year’s coup in Bolivia demonstrates, little has changed since the Cold War when it comes to media fealty to the State Department and the CIA. Because the U.S. government preferred the right-wing coup-plotters to the left-wing Morales, the U.S. media deliberately inverted the entire narrative to describe the elected leader (Morales) as the tyrant and the violent military coup leaders as the saviors of democracy. And they peddled this false narrative only by relying heavily on an OAS report that even the NYT is now forced to admit was, at best, deeply flawed.

THAT THE OAS REPORT WAS DUBIOUS is not, contrary to the subtext of the NYT’s new article, something that was only recently discovered. That has been clear from ample evidence from the start — evidence that the jingoistic U.S. media rarely saw fit to mention.

Shortly after the preliminary OAS report was issued, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), on November 8, issued its own report highlighting numerous flaws in what it called “unsubstantiated doubts cast upon the vote count by the OAS mission.” Explaining that OAS claims of election irregularities were made “without evidence,” the report detailed that “neither the OAS mission nor any other party has demonstrated that there were widespread or systematic irregularities in the elections of October 20, 2019.”

In March, the CEPR issued an even more comprehensive analysis, an 82-page report that concluded: “the OAS’s observation activities in Bolivia’s 2019 general elections are the latest example of a deeply problematic observation mission whose dishonest, biased, and unprofessional conduct has caused serious damage to the country’s democracy.” It added that “while the fraud narrative that the OAS helped promote contributed to Evo Morales, the country’s democratically elected president, fleeing the country,” the OAS Report “does not provide any evidence that those irregularities altered the outcome of the election, or were part of an actual attempt to do so.”

In February — with Morales now in exile in Argentina — the Washington Post published an op-ed by two scholars from MIT. They summarized their argument this way:

The media has largely reported the [OAS’s] allegations of fraud as fact. And many commentators have justified the coup as a response to electoral fraud by MAS-IPSP. However, as specialists in election integrity, we find that the statistical evidence does not support the claim of fraud in Bolivia’s October election.

In sum, the authors concluded, after setting forth their statistical findings in detail: “there is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find — the trends in the preliminary count, the lack of any big jump in support for Morales after the halt, and the size of Morales’s margin all appear legitimate. All in all, the OAS’s statistical analysis and conclusions would appear deeply flawed.”

That the OAS is a subservient tool of the U.S. State Department is something that is widely known in Latin America. Yet it is a claim that virtually never appears in mainstream accounts from U.S. news outlets, which — as they did here — treat the group as some sort of neutral, authoritative arbiter of political disputes.

Shortly after Morales was exiled from Bolivia and received asylum in Mexico, I traveled to Mexico City to interview him. I asked Morales about the OAS, and this is what he said:

All along, there was ample reason to seriously doubt, if not outright reject, the OAS accusations of election irregularities and voter fraud. As CEPR’s Jake Johnston said today in response to the New York Times article:

For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the OAS’ claims of fraud were bogus. Just days after the election, a high-level official inside the OAS privately acknowledged to me that there had been no “inexplicable” change in the trend, yet the organization continued to repeat its false assertions for many months with little to no pushback or accountability.

Yet those reasons for doubting the OAS accusations were barely ever even mentioned, let alone vested with credibility, by the U.S. media or its leading foreign policy commentators. Instead, as the MIT scholars wrote in the Washington Post, “the media largely reported the allegations of fraud as fact.” That’s because whenever it comes to changing a foreign country’s government that is disliked by the U.S., the U.S. media reflexively sides with the U.S. State Department and ceases to report and instead engages in pro-government propaganda.

In this case, Bolivia lost its most successful president in its modern history, and is consequently now ruled by an unelected military junta, all cheered on by the U.S. and its media, relying on an OAS report which even the New York Times is now forced to acknowledge is, at best, deeply flawed. Thus did the U.S. government and its media, yet again, help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/13/bolivia_evo_morales_coup_debate

In Bolivia, right-wing Senator Jeanine Áñez declared herself president Tuesday night despite a lack of quorum in Congress, amid a deepening political crisis in the country. Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, left the country Monday after being granted asylum in Mexico. Morales announced his resignation Sunday shortly after the Bolivian military took to the airwaves to call for his departure. His Movement Toward Socialism party is refusing to recognize Áñez as president, calling her claim illegal and decrying Evo Morales’s resignation over the weekend as a military coup. Last month, Morales was re-elected for a fourth term in a race his opponents claimed was marred by fraud. He ran for a fourth term after contesting a referendum upholding term limits. On Tuesday, the Organization of American States held an emergency meeting in Washington, where U.S. Ambassador Carlos Trujillo read a statement from President Donald Trump applauding Evo Morales’s resignation and warning it should “send a strong signal” to Venezuela and Nicaragua. Mexico, Uruguay, Nicaragua and the president-elect of Argentina have all denounced Morales’s departure as a coup.Morales’s departure has sparked demonstrations and clashes across Bolivia. We host a debate on the political crisis in Bolivia with Pablo Solón, former ambassador to the United Nations under President Evo Morales until 2011, and Kevin Young, assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of “Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia.”

...Mauricio Claver-Carone, an attorney who rose to prominence in conservative foreign policy circles as a writer for the Capitol Hill Cubans blog and as the executive director of the U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC, advised Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. He then joined Trump’s transition team for the U.S. Treasury Department, where he was instrumental in U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s president, who was labeled a “dictator” by the Trump administration. ...Now the acting U.S. executive director at the International Monetary Fund, Claver-Carone will work under National Security Advisor John Bolton and coordinate White House policy with the State, Treasury and other departments. Reached by phone, Claver-Carone said he couldn’t comment.

Claver-Carone joins fellow Cuban-Americans promoted by Trump to execute a hardline foreign policy in which Cuba is seen as a major disruptor in Latin-American affairs: Carlos Trujillo (U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States), Eliot Pedrosa (U.S. Alternate Executive Director of the InterAmerican Development Bank) and Tomas Regalado (head of Radio Marti).

That places the president’s foreign policy in the region in the hands of top anti-Castro hard-liners in the areas of White House policy, multi-lateral policy, finance and media....

...Reich, a former ambassador to Venezuela who’s now a lobbyist, said Claver-Carone’s intelligence and background make him ideal to understanding Venezuela’s problems and the influential role of trade and finance in the region. He said his “strong personality” makes him a good fit in national security circles because “it attracts strong personalities.”

Trujillo, for instance, worked with Vice President Mike Pence to persuade a majority of the Organization of American States to vote to eventually expel Venezuela from the organization.

All have close ties to Rubio, who’s playing a central role in setting U.S. policy in Latin America as chair of the Senate’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Rubio has a close relationship with Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who successfully pushed for tougher Venezuela sanctions Rubio had been calling for — including penalties that target a Venezuelan official implicated in an assassination plot against the senator.

Rubio and Florida GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart were architects of Trump’s policy to unwind President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with Cuba, and used as a reference point the “Military Transparency Act” that Rubio had previously written with the input of Claver-Carone.

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