The former president of Bolivia is in his country and clarified that he no longer needed diplomatic refuge in Argentina.
A message from the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorniwho was absent from his daily press conference this Wednesday, surprised the regional diplomatic sphere: he announced that our country removed diplomatic protection from Evo Moraleswho He went into exile from Bolivia for less than a year in 2019.
“Juan Evo Morales Ayma’s refugee status has been terminated. The end,” was the message Adorni wrote on his social network account X. Morales responded in the same way: “The government of Javier Milei, enemy of the people and Latin American integration, attempts to distract from the serious economic crisis “which he took to Argentina with a statement about the refuge that that brother country granted me from December 2019 to November 2020.”
The former Bolivian president highlighted his “deep gratitude to Alberto Fernández, Cristina Kirchner and the Argentine people for their infinite solidarity”, after the coup d’état that took place in his country in 2019. “Of course, Since my return to Bolivia I have not needed that protection“he clarified.
Finally, the leader considered that “every insult that comes from people like Milei is just a sign that we are on the right pathnext to our people”.
Exile of Evo Morales in 2019
Evo Morales had the special status of political refugee at the offer of the former president Alberto Fernandez at the end of 2019, after a period of exile in Mexico. This occurred after he had resigned from the presidency of his country on November 10 of that year, as a result of the coup d’état led by Jeanine Áñez Chávez.
The former Bolivian president had resigned and was the deep political crisis unleashed after the elections of October 20amid complaints of fraud by the opposition and clashes in the streets, which ended with a military mobilization and mass repression by the insurgent forces.
Morales had called for new elections in October 2019, after an OAS audit that detected “irregularities” in the elections, but his announcement did not satisfy the opposition leaders who once again demanded his resignation amid deep tensions and direct attacks on officials’ homes. In this framework, Alberto Fernández had granted him the political refugee status in the country so that he could be with his family, closer to his country and his militant space. Finally, in November 2020 he returned to Bolivia walking across the border, in a symbolic ceremony.
Source: Ambito
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