[News] Bolivia - Statement from the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS)

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https://www.resumen-english.org/2019/11/statement-from-the-movement-towards-socialism-mas/ 



  Statement from the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS)


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November 12, 2019

Faced with a media siege that confronts the truth in our country, the 
Movement Towards Socialism sends this communiqué to the Bolivian people 
and the international community that since November 10, 2019, a plan of 
assassination by the Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas (UMOPAR) and the 
Bolivian Police was activated in the hard phase of the coup d’état 
against our leaders Evo Morales and Álvaro García, which is why the 
Mexican government’s offer of asylum was accepted.

During the entire day of November 11, the coup plotters put the lives of 
our leaders Evo and Álvaro at serious risk, first with public threats 
from police to proceed with operations to stop them and then with the 
closure of our air space, through administrative obstacles of the 
Bolivian Air Force, preventing the entry of the Mexican airplane that 
came to pick them up.

The Bolivian people are living terrible moments, with policemen and 
motorcyclists creating panic in the streets and with the military high 
command deciding to attack the people in the name of pacification, even 
preventing personalities, church and politicians from finding 
constitutional and democratic solutions to the crisis we are facing.

The Military is in the streets, shooting from helicopters in Cochabamba, 
mobilizing tanks, troops and weapons in La Paz to annihilate our people 
just for resisting the injustice and outrage, racism, violence and the 
infamous strategy of preventing our leaders from continuing to lead the 
country.

The coup d’état was a construction of several steps, first installing 
the idea of electoral fraud to generate questions in the streets, 
denying our victory, and using the OAS audit report, distorting its 
content, when it categorically speaks of irregularities and not fraud; 
then asking for the nullification of the elections, then the resignation 
of our leaders, and to finally concretize their strategy with the police 
mutiny, articulating the anti-democratic plan, installing a regime of 
terror, with threats and persecution.

They are forcing the patience of our people, the resignation of our 
Brothers President and Vice President was not enough for them, but they 
are even trying to force a government out of the constitutional 
succession, by pretending that the 2nd Vice President of the Senate 
leads the coup d’état by becoming president of the Plurinational 
Legislative Assembly and automatically President of the State, when in 
strictly constitutional terms it is the President of the Senate, Adriana 
Salvatierra, who is responsible for assuming that transition.

In this line of irregular actions, the armed forces have materialized 
the betrayal of the Bolivian people, economically supported by the 
civilian Camacho, who, colluding with the aforementioned opponents, 
closed the circuit of the coup d’état.

Compatriots, not even the vileness and rage against our brothers Evo and 
Alvaro will achieve a look of sadness, repentance or sorrow, this new 
sacrifice of our leaders is to keep us united, strong and fighting for 
the people as we have always done…

Let us denounce the coup d’état, let us show the world that hatred the 
hatred we are witnessing is only because with great dignity we empowered 
the Bolivian people.

Source: La Pupila Insomne 
<https://lapupilainsomne.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/a-la-opinion-publica-movimiento-al-socialismo-bolivia/>, 
translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau

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