La Paz (EFE).- The former Bolivian president and head of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, asked to “be careful” of President Luis Arce and accused his government of organizing an attack against him “with the right and the empire”.
“I repeat, (you have to) take care of Lucho Arce, I ask the healthy and honest leaders who are not prebendal” because “he follows them up” to “make some montage,” Morales said in the Sunday program that he broadcasts on the Kawsachun station Coke.
The former head of state stated that he is “concerned” that now “our government (of the MAS)” is ready to carry out an attack to link it to drug trafficking cases.
The government is dedicated to dividing
He precisely targeted the Ministry of the Presidency and the Vice Ministry of Communication for preparing a video to tell “lies.”
“I don’t want to think badly, (but) with this kind of defamation they are going to campaign for me for free,” he ironized.
Morales asserted that “the government is dedicated to dividing (the MAS) like the neoliberal governments” through a “dirty campaign” and that it also uses “some perks” to deliver some leaders to join the “renovators” bloc.
“Who is the head of the renovators, Lucho (Arce) and David (Choquehuanca)” and “they are trying to outlaw the MAS and now they say we are from the MAS,” Morales recriminated.
The day before, President Luis Arce met in La Paz with his ministers, deputy ministers, and several “archist” legislators to plan his administration and from the meeting a pronouncement emerged in which they ratified their “militancy” in the MAS.
The main enemy is the “fascist right”.
Likewise, the Government “forcefully” rejected any “internal and external destabilization” attempt and recalled that “the main enemy” is not in the ranks of the MAS” but in the “fascist right.”
Also this Saturday, Morales met with the federations of coca leaf producers from the Cochabamba tropics, his main political stronghold, and the “evistas”, but the position was to insist on criticizing the president and the government.
That meeting announced that the MAS has a “sole candidate” for the presidency that is Morales.
In addition, that congress pointed out that Arce “is turning to the right” that political party and that it “favors corruption and drug trafficking,” among other points.
Tensions in the MAS
The leaders of the MAS also established “hire security guards” to protect Morales since “the right may attempt against his life” and for this they asked for a “voluntary” contribution from the militants.
The tensions in the MAS began to be felt at the end of 2021, when the “evistas” recommended that Arce make changes among his collaborators, something that the president did not do.
This was followed by the repeated denunciations of the “evistas” for acts of alleged corruption in the Government and statements of treason against Arce and the country’s vice president, David Choquehuanca.