The Bolivian Foreign Ministry reported this Sunday (22) that it sent letters to three international organizations to denounce “acts of destabilization” by former President Evo Morales and his followers, who are protesting in La Paz to demand his qualification as a candidate for the 2025 elections.
“We have exposed to the international community the acts of destabilization against our government,” said an official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of President Luis Arce.
The letters were sent to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, and Tania Reneaum Panszi, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
“Our government has a firm commitment to democracy, respect for human rights and the conviction that dialogue is the best way to deal with differences,” the statement said.
The march of the sectors that follow Morales left on Tuesday from the city of Caracollo, in the Andean region of Oruro, and this Sunday marks its sixth day of mobilization towards the city of La Paz, seat of government, and is preparing to reach Achica Arriba.
Supporters of the former president claim that it is a march to “save the country” in the face of problems such as the shortage of dollars and fuel and the increase in the cost of some basic products, in addition to demanding respect for the resolutions of a congress of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) held last year – not recognized by the Electoral Court – in which Morales’ candidacy for 2025 was defined.
Arce’s government claims that the demonstration promoted by Morales has the objective of promoting a “coup d’état” and making the head of the Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez, who is close to the former ruler, assume the presidency of the country to make his candidacy viable.
Morales and Arce have been estranged since the end of 2021 due to differences in the state administration that deepened over the need to renew the national leadership of the MAS, still in the hands of the former president, something on which the factions loyal to both have not been able to reach an agreement.
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