Bolivia´s exiled former president Evo Morales on Sunday defended a call he made ...
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.”
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