[News] Bolivia - Evo Morales Slams Coup Plotters for Keeping up Violence

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  Evo Morales Slams Coup Plotters for Keeping up Violence

November 11, 2019
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales condemned Monday right-wing 
opposition leaders Carlos Mesa and Lusi Camacho for failing to stop the 
violence in the country and warning that they intend to blame him for 
such violence instead of taking responsibility following the coup 
against his leftist government.

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"Mesa and Camacho, discriminators and conspirators, will go down in 
history as racists and coup plotters," Morales said in a tweet early 
Monday morning.

"That they assume their responsibility to pacify the country and 
guarantee the political stability and peaceful coexistence of our 
people. The world and Bolivian patriots repudiate the coup."

He added that those behind the coup against his government, who 
had vandalized his house and burned his sister's house "now lie and try 
to blame us for the chaos and violence they have caused. Bolivia and the 
world witness the coup."

He concluded his morning tweets with thanking the solidarity shown by 
his supporters in Bolivia and abroad. "Very grateful to the solidarity 
of the people, brothers from Bolivia and the world who reach out with 
recommendations, suggestions and expressions of recognition that give us 
encouragement, strength and energy. They moved me to tears. They never 
abandoned me; I will never abandon them," Morales said.

Evo Morales was forced to resign Sunday after senior army and police 
chiefs called on him to do so following weeks of right-wing unrest and 
violence against his Oct. 20 elections victory, in what his government 
has called a coup by opposition forces in the country.

“I decided to resign from my position so that Carlos Mesa and Luis 
Camacho stop abusing and harming thousands of brothers ... I have the 
obligation to seek peace and it hurts a lot that we face Bolivians, for 
this reason, so I will send my letter of resignation to the 
Plurinational Assembly of Bolivia,” the former president of Bolivia said 
in a press release.

Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera also said that he was 
resigning from his position. The two leaders said that they would be 
handing their resignation letters to the country's National Assembly.

Since both President and Vice Presiden resigned, the president of the 
Senate, a position held by Adriana Salvatierra of the MAS party was 
supposed to assume the post but she later issued her resignation as well 
as the president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Currently, the line of succession is broken in Bolivia.

Morales and Garcia Linera will stay in Chimore in the central Department 
of Cochabamba to work with the people.  "We will come back and we will 
be millions as Tupac Amaru II said," Morales declared.

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