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Editor's Note: Pedro Brieger is an Argentine journalist and sociologist, author of more than seven books and contributor to publications on international issues. He currently serves as director of NODAL, a portal dedicated exclusively to the news of Latin America and the Caribbean. He collaborated with different national media such as Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación, Página / 12, Profile and for magazines such as News, Somos, Le Monde Diplomatique and Panorama. Throughout his career, Brieger won important awards for his informative work on Argentine radio and television.
(CNN Spanish) - Once the coup d'état that overthrew Evo Morales on November 10, de facto president Jeanine Áñez said that her government was transitional and that her task was to organize the elections as soon as possible. However, any institutional breakdown leads to problems that go beyond the regulation that is to be applied or what the constitution says, since it is politics that ends up resolving any lawsuit.
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If those who celebrated Evo Morales's resignation and his subsequent transfer to Mexico thought that his political career would end there, they may have celebrated beforehand without taking into account that since his beginnings as a social leader in the Chapare Morales region he was persecuted for his activism. In 2002, he was even expelled from parliament when he was a deputy. That year, Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was in charge of the country, a formula partner of the dictator Hugo Banzer who won the elections in 1997 and resigned due to health problems, being succeeded by Quiroga, who is now a delegate of Áñez to spread abroad that in Bolivia there was no coup d'etat.
Morales did not stay long in Mexico and was predictable. He could not reach Argentina while Mauricio Macri ruled that he did not condemn the coup, and waited for Alberto Fernández to take office on December 10. Two days later he traveled in a tourist class on a plane that deposited it in Buenos Aires. Unlike Mexico, in Argentina there is a large Bolivian community that supports it mostly, there is a government that supports it and the leaders of its movement can easily enter Argentina through some of the many border posts that exist between the two countries . On the other hand, from the Fernández government they clarified that - as a refugee - they are not prevented from making statements or carrying out proselytizing acts.
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The government of Áñez is aware that Morales, close and active is his worst enemy. For this reason it does not seem coincidental that the Bolivian prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against him. It is hard to believe that this intimidates Morales, hardened in persecutions. In addition, he knows he enjoys great popular support. After all, he won several elections, while the de facto president was placed by a military man.
Evo MoralesJeanine Áñez