BUENOS AIRES - Bolivia´s exiled former president Evo Morales on Sunday defended a call he made for the formation of armed groups, a recording of which was leaked on public radio.
He said people have a right to defend themselves if the new government was attacking them. He said he had not meant armed with guns and was referring to citizen defense groups that had always loosely existed. “If between now and in a little while... I were to return or someone else goes back, we must organize as in Venezuela armed militias of the people,” Morales said in the recording. “We were too trusting. The blunder: we did not have a ‘Plan B’.”The former coca farmer led Bolivia for almost 14 years at the helm of the Movement for Socialism coalition but left for Mexico in mid-November after being granted asylum there. He then moved to Argentina.
Bolivia´s interim president Jeanine Añez, a former senator and political opponent of Morales, said the recording showed that “peace, reconciliation and democracy were never options for him.”
Hmmm, not good
JaimeDunn_ Carlos Romero exministro de wEvo
He is a killer
'Evol' Morales
Armed militias... Oh, we can see he clearly wants the best for his country. If I'm not in power, fight!
Sorry, Buddy. Don't you remember? You took away your people's right to bear arms years ago.
Just not enough wars and natural disasters for some people...
ICHEOKU says that will be grounds to violate his asylum in Mexico. He cannot use Mexico as a staging grounds to destabilize his country. Power does not belong to him and being president is not his birthright; therefore either he behaves himself or be extradited back to Bolivia.
There is only one way to stop all protest phenomena - to close American embassies
Why give him a voice ..?
BoyBye EvoEsFraude
He's toast
No... Are you out of ye mind.. Noo
Since he trusted that his plan A (violating the constitution, electoral fraud, etc) was enough to stay in power forever, a plan B was not deem necessary. He truly is a madman who believes Bolivia is of his possession. bolivialibre bolivia
Behold the great democratic Bolivian leader that president lopez and his leftist pets in Mexico offered asylum claiming a coup in Bolivia. Evo Morales is just another failed leader with pretensions of a banana republic dictator MElenaPerezJaen beltrandelrio
This is the face of the left around the world! He was losing the election, committed electoral fraud thinking Bolivians wouldn’t have the courage to do anything! Well, they have done, and the bandit Morales had to leave the country! Now he is trying to promote violence!
Communist and Islamists are the biggest thugs. Different faces but same actions.
The former president is crazy. Militia Really ?
Are there unarmed militias? 🤔
We've seen this before.
didn't he win a democratic election?
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