{"id":147417,"date":"2019-11-11T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=147417"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:31:44","slug":"bolivias-evo-morales-steps-down-reaction-from-latin-america-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/bolivias-evo-morales-steps-down-reaction-from-latin-america-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia\u2019s Evo Morales Steps Down: Reaction from Latin America and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>11 Nov 2019 &#8211; <em>A round-up of international reactions to the news of the resignation of Latin America&#8217;s longest-serving leader.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/evo-morales.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-147418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/evo-morales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/evo-morales.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/evo-morales-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/political-vacuum-bolivia-morales-announces-resignation-191111043447380.html\" >Political vacuum in Bolivia as Morales announces resignation<\/a> &#8211; today<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/bolivian-military-asks-morales-resign-ensure-stability-191110200759194.html\" >Bolivia&#8217;s beleaguered President Morales announces resignation<\/a> &#8211; today<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/bolivia-morales-calls-elections-oas-audit-191110110329121.html\" >Bolivia&#8217;s Morales calls for new elections after OAS audit<\/a> \u2013 today<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/bolivia-military-chief-army-confront-people-191110062248392.html?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=article_page&amp;utm_campaign=read_more_links\" >Bolivia military chief says army &#8216;will not confront people&#8217; <em>\u2013 today<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evo Morales has stepped down as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/bolivia.html\" >Bolivia<\/a>&#8216;s president after the military encouraged him to leave the post to ensure stability following weeks of protests against his disputed re-election.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address on Sunday, Latin America&#8217;s longest-serving leader, said he was resigning for the &#8220;good of the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to tell you, brothers and sisters, that the fight does not end here,&#8221; Morales said from his stronghold in the Chapare region in central Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue this fight for equality, for peace,&#8221; the 60-year-old added, who has said he is the victim of a &#8220;coup&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Following his statement, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera also said he was resigning.<\/p>\n<p>The announcements prompted celebrations but there were also reports of violent unrest erupting in the administrative capital, La Paz, in the city of El Alto and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Morales said his house in Cochabamba was attacked by &#8220;violent groups&#8221; and, on Twitter, accused police of issuing an &#8220;illegal&#8221; warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivia&#8217;s police chief denied the claim in a television interview on Sunday, while the military said in a statement that it was launching air and land operations to &#8220;neutralise&#8221; groups acting unlawfully.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation of the last survivor of the so-called &#8220;pink tide&#8221;, which ushered in leftist governments in Latin America two decades ago, prompted reaction across the region and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a round-up of international responses to the latest developments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antonio Guterres, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\" >UN<\/a> secretary-general, expressed deep concern about the situation in Bolivia, according to his spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Stephane Dujarric said the UN chief &#8220;urges all relevant parties to refrain from violence, reduce tensions and exercise maximum restraint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard described the events in Bolivia as &#8220;an ongoing military operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was similar to those tragic events that gripped our Latin American [continent] last century,&#8221; said Ebrard, who assumed his role after a leftist party won<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/mexico.html\" > Mexico<\/a>&#8216;s election in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mexico will maintain its position of respect for democracy and institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ebrard added that Mexico had already received 20 members &#8220;of the Bolivian executive and legislative in its official residence in La Paz,&#8221; adding that his country would offer Morales asylum if he sought it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">En Bolivia hay una operaci\u00f3n militar en curso, la rechazamos,es similar a aquellos tr\u00e1gicos hechos que ensagrentaron nuestra Am\u00e9rica Latina el siglo pasado. M\u00e9xico mantendr\u00e1 su posici\u00f3n de respeto a la democracia y las instituciones. Golpe no.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_ebrard\/status\/1193661335524925441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">M\u00e9xico,de conformidad a su tradici\u00f3n de asilo y no intervenci\u00f3n, ha recibido a  20 personalidades del ejecutivo y legislativo de Bolivia en la residencia oficial en La Paz, de as\u00ed decidirlo ofrcer\u00edamos asilo tambi\u00e9n a Evo Morales.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_ebrard\/status\/1193673565830180865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nicaragua<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/evo-morales-steps-reaction-latin-america-191111052010737.html\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original \u2013 aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Nov 2019 &#8211; A round-up of international reactions to the news of the resignation of Latin America&#8217;s longest-serving leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":147418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,53],"tags":[1140,1085,541],"class_list":["post-147417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-bolivia","tag-evo-morales","tag-latin-america-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}