Don't Blame Ortube

Referees are not especially well-liked in Bolivia.  When the three officials (referee and two linespersons) walk out onto the field before any league match in Bolivia, they are immediately greeted with whistles (the Latin American equivalent of booing).  After yesterday's game that Bolivian referee Marcelo Ortube oversaw, he may be even more disliked than before.
 
However, the bottom line is that the Bolivian team was not physically prepared to withstand the Peruvian comeback, the Colombian late-minute header, nor able to finish off the struggling Venezuelans.  Bolivia had the opportunity to put itself in a position to not have to rely on the whistle of a referee in a game that they weren't even playing.  Only tallying two points in three games was not Ortube's fault.