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<h1 class="reader-title">Statement from the Movement Towards
Socialism (MAS)</h1>
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<p>November 12, 2019</p>
<p>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 <span
id="more-11127"></span>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Source: <a
href="https://lapupilainsomne.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/a-la-opinion-publica-movimiento-al-socialismo-bolivia/">La
Pupila Insomne</a>, translation, Resumen
Latinoamericano, North America bureau</p>
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