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<h1 class="reader-title">'OAS Is a Tool of the US Empire':
Bolivia's Evo Morales</h1>
November 13, 2019</div>
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<p><a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivias-Evo-Morales-Lands-In-Mexico-As-A-Political-Refugee-20191112-0005.html"
target="_blank">Bolivia's President Evo Morales</a> denounced
Wednesday the Organization of American States for being
at the service of the United States and contributing to
his country's political crisis.</p>
<p>"The OAS is not at the service of the Latin American
peoples and less of its social movements. It is at the
service of the U.S. empire," Morales said from Mexico,
where he is currently residing as a political refugee
after being forced to resign last Sunday.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, due to massive demonstrations that have
paralyzed La Paz, the Bolivian Parliament could not meet
to formally process the resignation of Evo Morales, who
is still the country's president.</p>
<p>Right-wing opposition politicians, however, summoned
themselves to a meeting in the former Mining Bank at the
Murillo Square, where only people who support the coup
are being allowed to enter.</p>
<p>In an absolutely notorious and public way, the Police
gathered around the private building to prevent the
entry of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Senator
and First President of the Senate Adriana Salvatierra,
who under the Constitution is next
in presidential succession line after Morales and ousted
Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Salvatierra said she is willing to
install the parliamentary session and assume the
presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.<br>
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<p><strong>"Farmers who grow coca leaf in the tropics
declare themselves in mobilization until Evo returns."</strong></p>
<p>Thousands of Bolivians are demonstrating in rejection
of the coup against President Morales, which was
orchestrated by opposition leaders Luis Fernando Camacho
and Carlos Mesa.</p>
<p>"We are not afraid! We are not afraid!” the Bolivian
farmers and workers shouted as Air Force planes flew
menacingly over their massive demonstration in downtown
La Paz.</p>
<p>To prevent further violations of the Bolivian
constitution, progressive social movements have been
demanding that the Legislature not be installed in
session to consummate the coup d'etat. Parliament
suspended the session Tuesday as there was no quorum
but <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Jeanine-Anez-Appoints-Herself-President-of-Bolivia-No-Quorum-20191112-0011.html"
target="_blank">Senator Jeanine Añez, proclaimed
herself as "Interim President."</a></p>
<p><strong>This is how the Bolivian fascist coup' armed
arm prevented the entry of Adriana Salvatierra, the
Senate president, who is from Evo Morales's party.
According to the Constitution, the MAS lawmaker is the
next in the succession line to become the country's
president</strong></p>
<p>Workers and farmers also rejected the racist attitudes
of Bolivia's far-right elites, which burned the Whipala,
the flag of the Indigenous peoples and the second
official flag of Bolivia.</p>
<p>For his part, <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinias-Fernandez-Slams-US-for-Morales-Resignation-20191112-0006.html"
target="_blank">Argentina's President-elect Alberto
Fernandez</a> on Wednesday refused to consider Senator
Añez as Bolivia's interim president and questioned his
country's foreign policy.</p>
<p>"Our Foreign Affairs Ministry had a hard time seeing
the obvious, which is that there was a coup in Bolivia.
I hope they don't recognize the outcome of a coup
d'etat," Fernandez said after a meeting with social
movements held at the Argentine Episcopal Conference in
Buenos Aires.</p>
<p>"There was an Army chief who asked for the resignation
of a President and a Police that mutinied," he recalled,
stressing that those facts are "called a coup d'etat
anywhere in the world.”</p>
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