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12 November 2019The now former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is in Mexico , a country that offered him political asylum. The government of the Central American country said that the decision was taken on "humanitarian grounds" after a request by Morales himself."Brothers and sisters, I leave for Mexico," Morales tweeted after he resigned. "It hurts me to leave the country for political reasons, but I'll always be careful. I'll be back soon with more strength and energy," he added.
At the same time, the Bolivian army announced its intention to offer help to the police to restore order.
Morales left his post on Sunday, after Bolivian armed forces chief Williams Kaliman invited him to step aside, to put an end to the protests that erupted following the re-election of the president in an election slate stained with the suspicion of fraud.
The second vice president of the Bolivian Senate, the opposing body Jeanine Anez , called by the Constitution to succeed Evo Morales as head of state after his resignation, announced on Monday the upcoming convocation of presidential elections so that "on January 22nd we will have a elected president ".
Football legend Diego Maradona expressed support for the former president and denounced "a coup d'état orchestrated in Bolivia". The Pibe de Oro posted on Instagram a message with a photo of him with Morales smiling together, in 2008.
"I regret the coup d'état orchestrated in Bolivia, especially the Bolivian people, and Evo Morales, a good person who has always worked for the poorest," wrote the former captain of Naples and Argentina.
In the course of his life, Maradona in the past has been a supporter of other central and South American leaders such as Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The current one in Bolivia against Evo Morales is "a coup" "financed and directed" by the United States. Thus Nicolas Maduro , Venezuelan president, commented on the situation in Bolivia during a meeting with governors and mayors of the main cities of Venezuela.