Crisis worsens in Bolivia: Evo Morales calls for mobilizations towards the cities to “defend” Arce

The former Bolivian president Evo Morales asked the militants of the ruling party to mobilize in the nine departments and march to the cities “to defend” the government of Luis Arce before what they consider attempts to destabilize by a national strike against a law.

Morales expressed himself in this way in a massive concentration of peasants, coca growers and indigenous people related to the Movement to Socialism (MAS) in Shinahota, in the area of ​​the Tropic of Cochabamba, his political and union stronghold in the center of the country, in which he asked his bases to be in a “state of emergency and permanent mobilization.”

“How nice it would be (to make) marches to the cities peacefully to defend our revolution and our government at the head of President Lucho, that is our obligation. Otherwise the right will return to privatize natural resources, “he said.

He also asked his party leaders to replicate this concentration in the nine departments.

The event, which was attended by the country’s president, Luis Arce, was convened to commemorate the two years of his departure from the country after resigning from the Presidency, which for the ruling party was the product of a “coup d’état”, in addition to celebrating one year after his return and to express support for the Executive in the face of the protests registered in various regions.

For Morales, the “right” seeks to “wear down” the government because “it knows that it is not going to win” the MAS in the elections and, in his opinion, they seek to return to the era of “neoliberalism.”

The also coca grower leader mentioned the “serious” case of Peru where “for 30 years the Peruvian oligarchy has shielded itself, by Constitution Peru cannot have public companies, it cannot have state companies” and in his opinion “that is what the Bolivian right wants” for your country.

For Morales, the protests that take place in some Bolivian regions for the annulment of a law against the legitimization of illicit profits are promoted by “some groups” that “do not want justice to be done” due to the “coup d’état” they gave him. in 2019.

Memories of the crisis

The former president insisted that the crisis of 2019 was “due to Bolivian natural resources” and assured that “even England had participated and financed the coup, all for lithium,” an accusation made earlier by the Arce government than the embassy British in La Paz denied outright.

He revealed that last year they fought a legal and political “tough battle” to preserve the legal personality of their party, in which they had the help of “some members” of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Constitutional Tribunal.

“What did the coup plotters say? that the social movements are defeated, they have sworn that we were defeated and now the MAS is in government thanks to the unity of the Bolivian people and Evo is in Bolivia alive, “said the former president and thanked his militants for their support.

He also asked the Bolivian Justice to investigate the complaints made by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in his book about the alleged attempt by the Bolivian military to shoot down the plane in which he was taken to Mexico in 2019 with a rocket.

On November 11, 2019, Evo Morales left Bolivia for Mexico on a plane sent by López Obrador a day after he resigned from the Presidency denouncing a coup, amid protests over allegations of fraud in his favor. in the failed elections of that year, later annulled.

Morales stayed in Mexico for about a month before moving to Argentina, from where he directed Arce’s electoral campaign and returned to Bolivia on November 11 of last year.

“I say that November 11, 2019 is the day of evil because of the right wing, everyone worried, bitter. And last year, November 11, 2020, the day of happiness, everyone was happy, no one was missing, we are complete, “he said.