Mexico City.- At 11:08 a.m. local time (12:08 p.m. Havana), the Mexican Air Force plane carrying Evo Morales and other Bolivian leaders touched down in Mexico City.
BOLIVIAN DEFENSE MINISTER RESIGNS AND DENOUNCES VIOLENT ATTACKS BY MILITARY
La Paz.- Bolivian Defense Minister Javier Zavaleta - who served under the presidency of Evo Morales - presented his resignation on Monday and denounced violent actions that the mutinous security forces are carrying out.
"Bullets are neither the answer nor the solution to a problem," Zavaleta said and explained that he never ordered the use of military force against the population. "We never gave an order for our soldiers to wield a weapon against the people... The State we built was a State in which the military defends the Homeland with the people and never against them."
"A political issue is not resolved by increasing the caliber of repression," said Zavaleta addressing one of the leaders of the Bolivian right, former presidential candidate Carlos Mesa.
FORMER ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS COUP IN BOLIVIA
Moscow.- Former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales was the result of a coup and that events could have ended in worse violence if the socialist leader had not resigned.
In an exclusive interview with RT, Correa condemned the coup in Bolivia and noted that such insubordination of the country's armed forces "cannot exist in a constitutional rule of law" or in a democracy. "If Evo Morales had not resigned, there would have been a bloodbath because there was no public order."
He added that there can be no true democracy until the judging actors are the people and "not the uniformed ones," and stressed out that he wouldn't be surprised if there were foreign forces behind the efforts to overthrow Evo Morales.
Rafael Correa also said that the Organization of American States (OAS), which encouraged Morales to call new elections, did not condemn the violent events in socialist Bolivia because democracy is only valid when it serves the interests of the right.
"You can see the double standard that exists in all of this. For the right, democracy is valid as long as it satisfies its interests. When those interests cease to be fulfilled, suddenly democracy is not enough and "the situation must change by blood and fire, as we are seeing in Bolivia."
Correa said that the Bolivian people have experienced dignity and prosperity under Evo Morales' leadership and that after the recent events, people throughout Latin America will soon be convinced that the OAS is "useless" and nothing more than "an instrument of U.S. domination."
The OAS wants elections in Bolivia, but only without Morales because they know he has already been democratically elected by the people. "They have just forcibly removed a president who has won the elections broadly, with more than 10 points.
BOLIVIAN POLICE SHOOT ANTI-COUP PROTESTERS IN EL ALTO
La Paz.- Bolivian police on Monday harshly repressed people in El Alto who took to the streets to protest against the coup that forced the resignation of Evo Morales. Images uploaded on social media attest to a number of injured, however, there are no official figures on the number of victims.
Police detain a man who was protesting against the coup d'etat. Photo: Reuters
"The police repress with firearms to cause deaths and injuries in El Alto. My solidarity with those innocent victims, including a girl, and the El Alto's heroic people who are defending democracy," former President Evo Morales tweeted.
Over the last week, far-right groups have staged acts of aggression against the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) authorities and politicians. Selective burning of houses and beatings against Evo's supporters, however, have not been reported in a timely manner by international and local media.
In this regard, for example, in Argentina, where Mauricio Macri will remain in the presidency until December, the Press Workers Union (SiPREBA) on Monday denounced that the directors of the National Radio network prohibited its journalists from writing or speaking about the existence of a coup in Bolivia.
Nevertheless, according to social net videos posted on Monday, it is known that at least six citizens were shot, around 30 people were injured and a girl was rescued by anti-coup protesters in El Alto.
Indigenous leaders and social activists denounced that the police have joined the coup, which is being supported by former commander Yuri Calderon who publicly threatened to arrest MAS supporters.
"The first thing we should do is organize groups in all cities. We are going to stop all the leaders who are causing anxiety," Calderón said at the time of submitting his resignation on Sunday, when he "suggested" Evo Morales to leave the presidency. (RHC)
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