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Judi Lynn

(160,551 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2018, 12:47 AM Oct 2018

Bolsonaro Supports Bolivia's Right-Wing, Anti-Morales Coalition


Published 8 October 2018

Far-right Bolivians have the support of Brazil's Bolsonaro and his far-right SLP to prohibit Evo Morales from running for a 2019 term.

Members of far-right Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal Party (SLP) are heading to Bolivia to support an Oct. 10 nationwide demonstration to defend the country’s Feb. 21, 2016 referendum that supposedly prohibits leftist President Evo Morales from running for a fourth term.

In a video released over social media, Brazilian representative-elect Carla Zambelli, member of the right-wing SLP led by presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro; together with Bolivian politician Maria Anelin Suarez, a spokeswoman for the Las Calles Bolivia platform, say: "We are inviting (everyone) this Wednesday (Oct. 10) to support democracy and support people who are tired of socialism," to turn out for the national march.

Suarez and Zambelli go on to say they are “concerned” about the situation in Bolivia. The two call for “respect of democracy” and say they are on the "right side, the side of truth" and are calling for massive protests against Morales’ running for a presidential term.

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https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bolsonaro-Supports-Bolivias-Right-Wing-Anti-Morales-Coalition-20181008-0010.html
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Bolsonaro Supports Bolivia's Right-Wing, Anti-Morales Coalition (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2018 OP
The Bolivian Constitution prohibits Morales from running again GatoGordo Oct 2018 #1
 

GatoGordo

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1. The Bolivian Constitution prohibits Morales from running again
Tue Oct 9, 2018, 12:35 PM
Oct 2018

But, Morales says the Bolivian Constitution (and the recent referendum) doesn't pertain to Him. He says it is His "human right" to be El Presidente of Bolivia as long as He wants.

So, its not so much a "right wing plot" than it is Morales refusal to abide by his own nation's rule of law.

TeleSewer probably simply forgot that part of the story...

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