[rad-green] Mexico Grants Evo Morales Political Asylum

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*Telesur           11 November 2019*

Mexico Grants Evo Morales Political Asylum
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   - [image: Bolivia's President Evo Morales addresses the media at the
   presidential hangar in the Bolivian Air Force terminal in El Alto, Bolivia,
   November 10, 2019.]
   Bolivia's President Evo Morales addresses the media at the presidential
   hangar in the Bolivian Air Force terminal in El Alto, Bolivia, November 10,
   2019. | Photo: Reuters


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Russia, China, Uruguay and Argentina also expressed support for Evo Morales.

Mexico which has offered Bolivian President Evo Morales
<https://twitter.com/evoespueblo>  political asylum on Monday after his
forced resignation in the wake of a coup, while thousands of
pro-Morales protesters were marching towards the nation's legislative
assembly.

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"It's a coup because the army requested the resignation of the president,
and that violates the constitutional order of that country," Mexican
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said.

Ebrard recalled that Mexico was known for respecting the domestic affairs
of any nation, as well as granting the right to political asylum for
whoever suffered from political persecution.

He reported that Morales did a formal request following Mexico's offer of
asylum, and granted the status over "humanitarian reasons, and the
emergency situation currently experienced in Bolivia."

Russia also showed strong support for Morales, lamenting "an orchestrated
coup."

"We are alarmed by the dramatic developments in Bolivia, where the wave of
violence, unleashed by the opposition, prevented the completion of Evo
Morales's presidential mandate," said Russia's Foreign Ministry in a
statement.

China also "hopes to see that both parts can find a political solution in
Bolivia as soon as possible so political stability would return."

Morales repeated on Monday that he was the victim of a conspiracy by
enemies including election rival Carlos Mesa and protest leader Luis
Fernando Camacho. "The world and our Bolivian patriots repudiate the coup,"
he tweeted.

Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez echoed Morales' denunciations,
as well as Uruguay.

The departure of Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president and part of
a wave of leftists who dominated Latin America's politics at the start of
the century, followed weeks of violent protests by far-right
sectors pretexting fraud claims at the Oct. 20 re-election.

In a redrawing of Latin America's political landscape, the left has
regained power in both Mexico and Argentina, though powerhouse Brazil still
retains a far-right government.

Bolivia under Morales had one of the region's strongest economic growth
rates and its poverty rate halved.

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