Mexico Takes Action on Coup in Bolivia and on CELAC
JANUARY 17, 2020
by W. T. WHITNEY
Mexico’s government intervened recently in two difficult situations beyond its borders. One is turmoil in Bolivia following a U.S. – assisted coup. The other is about renewing the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). At issue there is regional integration and independence.
Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced out of office on November 10. Two days later he gained asylum in Mexico, together with ex-Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. They traveled there on a Mexican Air Force plane.
And 30 former officials of the Morales government received asylum in Mexico’s embassy in La Paz. By late December nine of them were still there, unable to obtain safe conduct passes. They face arrest orders on charges ranging from treason to electoral fraud.
Away from the refugees’ safe harbor, leaders of Morales’s Movement toward Socialism (MAS) political party were subjected to violent attacks and bizarre forms of abuse. The homes of former government officials were trashed. On November 19 indigenous people in El Alto, near La Paz, were protesting when soldiers killed eight of them. Security forces harassed local collaborators of the 700 or so departed Cuban doctors. Journalists are being shot at and arrested.
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