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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.
"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.
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“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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Morales Calls New Presidential Elections:
His announcement also came shortly after
the Organization of American States (OAS) issued its
audit report on the elections of Oct. 20 in which it
recommended the holding of new polls.
Bolivia: Neither the Police nor the Army can
get stained with the Bolivian people's blood,"
President Morales said.
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