© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. The final straw was a police mutiny and the head of army calling on Morales to go. García Linera, a white urban intellectual, fled Bolivia with Morales on 11 November on a Mexican air force jet, a day after they resigned following three weeks of protests sparked by an election shrouded in allegations of fraud.

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For the moment, however, García Linera was unwilling to make predictions. But the self-criticism only went so far, and García Linera attacked critics on the left as “Starbucks feminists and folkloric environmentalists”. Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morning, Take international news everywhere with you!

It was made of something in between – and it had cracks.”. “A revolution is like a cup, it has to be unbreakable when stones are thrown,” García Linera said, tapping his cappuccino during a wide-ranging interview in Mexico City where both men have been granted political asylum. Subscribe to World Politics Review and you'll receive instant access to 10,000+ articles in the World Politics Review Library, along with new Former Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks with CNN while in exile in Mexico about resigning under overwhelming pressure. That question is at the heart of what is unfolding in Bolivia some 10 weeks after former President Evo Morales resigned at the “suggestion” of the military amid mass public protests over a disputed presidential election. A stencil of former President Evo Morales adorns a wall in La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 6, 2019 (AP photo by Juan Karita). “They have not understood that the traditional middle class has gone fascist. ... enter your email address then choose one of the three options below.

Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales jetted off to exile in Mexico Tuesday in a bizarre flight full of detours that traced the shifting political map of a Latin America racked by crises. Issued on: 18/12/2019 - 19:46. They fled to Mexico on 11 November. “Everything is still moving,” he said. France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines. Even in exile – and wearing, he said, the same trousers in which he arrived – the 57-year-old looked remarkably well-groomed as he pondered Bolivia’s possible futures. © 2020 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, left, with former vice-president Álvaro García Linera during a rally in La Paz, on 5 November. A stencil of former President Evo Morales adorns a wall in La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 6, 2019 (AP photo by Juan Karita). “I am concerned that the situation in Bolivia could spin out of control,” the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Saturday. Public prosecutors in La Paz signed an order for police to detain the 60-year-old and take him to the attorney general's office. . When towering political figures are suddenly ousted from power, what role will they play in their country’s future? As he spoke, García Linera seemed every ounce the university professor, who won fame in Bolivia for reframing Marxist analysis for a majority indigenous context. All rights reserved.

But they lack those deeps roots in the social movements,” García Linera said. Bolivia prosecutors order arrest of ex-President Evo Morales, in exile in Argentina. Last modified on Thu 28 Nov 2019 15.47 EST. Former Bolivian president Evo Morales during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 2019. alleging he promoted violent clashes that led to 35 deaths, and now is based in Argentina since last Thursday. He said this was also the reason why – despite losing the vote – a way was still found to include his name on this year’s presidential ballot. García Linera said other mistakes included recruiting prominent intellectuals to positions in government – removing their voices from the wider public debate.

Evo Morales’s closest political adviser has admitted that the Bolivian leader’s failure to groom a successor contributed to the political crisis engulfing the South American nation but slammed the “racist backlash” he blamed for the toppling of its first indigenous president. Above all, he highlighted the failure to prepare a political heir for the former coca growers’ union leader, known universally as Evo, who spent a decade building the radical support base that swept him to power in 2005. He highlighted the protests of the indigenous poor in the city of El Alto, which are already causing shortages of fuel and other basic goods in La Paz, though he insisted Morales was not fanning the flames. LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Even in exile, Evo Morales looms over Bolivia's election next month. But he has faced a new and unexpected challenge to his political influence in Bolivia: an increasingly powerful current in his own party, the leftist Movement Toward Socialism—MAS, by its Spanish acronym—that favors a more moderate approach. . Former Bolivian president Evo Morales during a …