Periodico 26

Cuba demands an end to the instigation of violence against Cuban health care collaborators in Bolivia

Aymara leader Túpac Katari formed an army of about forty thousand men to confront the colonialist forces of Spain and came to encircle the city of La Paz in 1781. In November of the same year, betrayed by some of his followers, he was captured by the Spaniards.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales denounced Wednesday the Organization of American States for being at the service of the United States and contributing to his country's political crisis.

Argentinean President-elect Alberto Fernández has criticized the U.S. stance on Bolivia's political upheaval, which saw long-standing leftist leader Evo Morales resign under pressure and seek asylum in Mexico.

Evo Morales is an Aymara Indian who for 13 years remained constitutionally in power and impelled remarkable transformations in the life of the Bolivians and the entire Patria Grande. There he was seen hugging his children, fighting for the nationalization of hydrocarbons, accompanying Venezuela in the heartbreaking days of the death of Hugo Chávez, and working between flames to reduce the still recent fires of the Amazon rainforest, to mention, just a few examples of his constant walk.

Evo Morales has arrived in Mexico.

The chief of Cuban medical collaborators in Bolivia, Dr. Yoandra Muro, told Cuban TV newscast Sunday evening that all Cuban personnel deployed in the South American nation are safe in their homes.

"Mesa and Camacho, discriminators and conspirators, will go down in history as racists and coup plotters," Evo Morales tweeted early Monday morning.

The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons that our peoples and popular social and political forces must learn and engrave in their consciences forever.

The constitutional president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said in presenting his resignation that the struggle is not over with the coup d'etat consumed on Sunday.