Evo Morales says the government has “4 plans” against him, including “killing him”

The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) said in an interview with EFE that the Government of Luis Arce has “Four plans against him”, among these “kill him”, before allowing him to be a presidential candidate for the 2025 elections.

“If Evo is not put in jail, he is disqualified with proceedings, for drug trafficking, (..) if not, kill me“, said the former president at the end of a 25-kilometer road march.

The former president believes that the current government wants to block his candidacy because he is “a radical in the fight against corruption“and that if he were to become president again he would put many people in jail”corrupt” of this management.

Morales, who is also the leader of the ruling party Movement to Socialism (MAS) for 27 years, leads thousands of his followers in a 187-kilometer march that crosses the Bolivian highlands and has as its destination entering the city of Peace on Monday.

The mobilization that Morales calls “March to save Bolivia”, is named by the Executive as the “Death march” and Arce considers that it is an attempt by “coup d’état“against its Administration.

“Active police officers sent me a bulletproof vest on Tuesday (…) on Wednesday the military sent me another one“Morales said, adding that the government’s plan is to kill him when he leads the march to La Paz, the city where the executive branch is located.

Morales said that eliminating the BUT It is also part of Arce’s plan, because he has “a racist mentality“and does not accept that a political movement is in charge of indigenous people.

Arce and Morales have been engaged in a long battle for control of the ruling MAS and the Executive since 2021, and according to the opposition this fight keeps the country in tension and threatens to destabilize it.

For the former president, Luis Arce, “He is the worst president in the history of Bolivia”.

According to Morales, the mission of “Lucho (Maple)” era “recover the Bolivian economy“after what he and his supporters considered to be a “coup d’état” in 2019.

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Because of this alleged “coup d’état” the then president resigned and went into exile in Argentina and the MAS party placed Arce as its candidate in the 2021 elections, which he won.

“The people and I trust an economist“, he told EFE, since Arce was the Minister of Economy during his administration.

The former president said that the country’s economic crisis, due to lack of dollars and fuel shortages, is due to Arce selling out to the USA and to the right, and that is why he is looking for “reduce the State” and continue “the economic formula of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund”.

For his part, President Arce has stated on several occasions that Morales seeks for the MAS and Bolivia respond to “one person“and that the economic crisis is due to the former president’s management and the lack of exploration projects for natural gas reserves, a product on which the country’s economy depended until recently.

Hunger strike and blockade

“Not to be talkative, but if the elections were today we would win with 60%“Morales emphasized, in the living room of a house in Calamarca where he spoke to EFE after walking for six hours and giving a speech to his followers in the town square.

On his fifth day of walking, the former president looked tired and with purple lips due to the intense rays of the sun of the high plateau, however he mentioned that he is with “forces” to continue to the end.

According to Morales, walking through the highlands and getting close to the people, “remembered 2005″, the year in which he was first elected president of Bolivia.

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According to the leaders of the MAS affiliated with Morales, after the march ends the former president will go on a hunger strike to have his candidacy recognized, despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court which prohibits it.

They also announced that if their demands are not heard, a road blockade will be held throughout the country starting on September 30.

The MAS, which is divided into two camps, the ‘arcistas’ and the ‘evistas’, has held separate congresses to appoint different boards of directors, actions that the Electoral Court He does not accept and demands that they hold a joint meeting before choosing a presidential candidate, something that has not happened.