Luis Arce and Evo Morales (Portal)
president Louis Arce is currently waging two difficult wars: he must defeat the citizen movement what requires a census for next year and must Withdraw Evo Moraleshis political mentor, his godfather.
Two tough nuts to crack.
The department for Santa Cruz He is leading the national movement calling for the 2023 census to prove Bolivia has more voters than residents, forcing the government to eliminate fraud, which benefited Arce himself in 2020.
A Suspension of activities across the country It is being announced this week in support of the lawsuit, which has its epicenter in Santa Cruz and is mobilizing doctors and coca farmers from La Paz.
In this war, Arce was unexpectedly forced to switch in the early hours of November 1st commanders of the armed forces, because the previous ones required written and signed orders to mobilize war tanks from the highlands to Santa Cruz. More than 20 soldiers, including generals, are in prison for following orders that were not signed in 2019 when Evo Morales fled.
For his part, Cocalero Morales wants and even needs to return to the presidency, which he gave up in November 2019 while fleeing a massive popular revolt.
But Arce treats him like one political rival and he’s taking seats in Parliament, in addition to keeping ministers in his cabinet whom Morales considers DEA agents, his enemies.
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President Arce’s supporters slammed the Morales candidate in the Chamber of Deputies and denounced that the citizens’ movement demanding the 2023 census had plans to stage a coup in order to provoke snap elections.
But Morales declined Buenos Airesfrom where he visits his friends peronism of the K-Line, which does not believe in the existence of a coup movement against Arce and that these are exaggerations.
From Buenos Aires, Morales had in 2020 arranged Luis Arce as the MAS candidate for the elections in October this year, having been banned for gross electoral fraud in 2019.
The whole idea of naming a replacement candidate was very Peronistic. Arce had to play the role that the dentist had played Hector Campora 1973, when the military vetoed Juan Domingo Perón.
He had to run, win, and then resign so that new elections could be held, in which Perón was already allowed to vote. And the dentist fulfilled his obligation, having been in office barely 49 days and Perón returning to the presidency after eighteen years of military dictatorship.
In this Buenos Aires environment, Morales was advised to elect someone from his party whom he fully trusted to pave the way for new elections in which he would run.
Luis Arce Catacora was the man because he was his economy minister for thirteen years. Morales trusted him and beyond because he knew he was suffering kidney cancerwhich was an additional guarantee.
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The election was conducted, Arce emerged victorious and took office as President. A few days later, Cocalero Morales returned to Bolivia and began commanding as if he were president, even changing the commanders of the armed forces Arce had appointed a few days earlier.
Morales was concerned, waiting for Arce to fulfill his obligation out of honor or because his health would force him to leave office.
But Arce did not have his cancer treated by Cuban doctors, as the late Hugo Chávez had done, but by Brazilian doctors at a famous clinic in Sao Paulo. That cancer was removed.
In view of this, the formal obligation to waive remained in place 18 months taking office, so that new elections are called. Morales made the mistake of giving Arce too long a tenure compared to what Cámpora had served in Argentina.
And over time, Arce became seduced by “that wondrous instrument that is power,” as defined by former President Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1952-1956, 1960-1964, and 1985-1989).
Now the MAS “Luchistas” believe that Arce should be re-elected in the 2025 election and that Morales should resign.
Alongside the “renewal” current pushing Morales into retirement, the coca farmer is threatened by the possibility that the United States Judiciary demands that he be convicted of drug trafficking in this country.
He said his political enemies are “sowing evidence” of his complicity in the drug trade, including his contacts with Venezuelan Chavistas who are now on trial in the United States.
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