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(CNN Spanish) - The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, accused the current government of that country of considering him a dictator when, within days of starting his administration, they said he used violence and repression. "Now I feel they are genocidal," he said in a live interview with Carmen Aristegui in the CNN study in Mexico City.
Morales, who arrived in Mexico as a political asylum last November 12, regretted that Bolivian citizens are dying in the protests taking place in that country. Until the night of November 14, CNN had confirmed 8 deaths in connection with clashes in Cochabamba between protesters and security forces. "They don't put bullets in my town," he said.
The ex-president blamed the Organization of American States, OAS, and its secretary general Luis Almagro, for the “massacre” that has been registered in his country after the publication of the report on the counting of votes of the presidential elections of last October 20 .
After the elections a political and social crisis broke out in the country that included mobilizations and marches, an indefinite national strike, the closing of borders and police riots, with at least 3 dead and hundreds of wounded nationwide, this until 10 November, according to the defender of the people of Bolivia.
Morales resigned on November 10 in the midst of growing opposition, after the OAS international audit indicated that the election results could not be ratified due to "serious irregularities."
In the interview, the former president accused the opponent Carlos Mesa of instigating mobilizations and burning of ballots one day after the election.
"The right, after we won the elections, the next day ... Carlos Mesa began to instruct, 'mobilize', and at night they burned departmental electoral courts, they burned the amphorae of suffrages."
“It is known that each party that participates has its minutes, I wanted the OAS to review all the minutes, if possible vote by vote, table by table, minutes by minutes… As you knew, you had to burn it, just to say that there is fraud . It is not fraud but a coup that they already had prepared, ”Morales said.
CNN has contacted the press team of Carlos Mesa for comments and indicated that it does not intend to respond at the moment.
Questioned by the Mexican journalist about his status as a public official of Bolivia, Morales recognized himself as former president, despite the fact that the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of the South American country has not yet accepted or rejected his resignation.
The politician said that in the event of the second scenario, Bolivia would have two presidents, one constitutional without exercising and another as a result of the coup d'etat, in reference to Jeanine Áñez, who was the second vice president of the Senate and assumed the interim presidency.
"If I quit, it is not because I am a coward, but because I did not want violence to be exercised by the right," he said. He also made it clear that if he returned to Bolivia he would not seek a presidential re-election. Although he acknowledged that he never intended to hold on to power, but that several social sectors asked for it.
In the conversation, Morales said that he sacrificed everything so that in Bolivia the violence that has been presented recently was not lived, and for him the best way to pacify the country is by listening to the protests and mobilizations, therefore, after his arrival in Mexico he summoned to a high-level national dialogue in which different political and social players participate.
"We don't want coups or dictatorships," he said. "Pacify Bolivia."
Evo Morales
