• Resignation: Evo Morales resigns as president of Bolivia and denounces an illegal detention order against him
  • Editorial.Evo Morales, in the purest Chavista style

Luis Fernando Camacho, leader of the crusade initiated against Evo Morales after the electoral fraud of October 20, resigned yesterday to the presidency of the Civic Committee of Santa Cruz. This is the previous step to announce shortly your nomination for next year's general elections , something that was taken for granted by being mired in a kind of pre-campaign for days.

Everything suggests that his electoral formula partner will be Marco Pumari, a civic from Potosí, who also led the protests against the leader of the Socialism Movement (MAS) in his Andean department.

"From today we started working on a great project for a better country . It is a yearning to serve with all my strength to see my country united and free. God bless Bolivia," Camacho announced through his social networks.

In this way the Bolivian opposition is divided again in the face of presidential elections. And he does it with a strong candidate, since Camacho, a hard-line right-wing man with proclamations similar to those of Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro , was one of the key factors for the fall of Evo Morales. The indigenous leader was preparing to govern until 2025, not only relying on electoral fraud discovered by the Organization of American States (OAS), but also after presenting for the fourth time despite the fact that the Constitution limits two mandates and after ignoring the referendum lost in 2016.

The former citizen of Santa Cruz was not in a hurry to recognize that his "resignation" to be a candidate, which he took for granted as a preliminary step to lead the protests, was a "strategy" : "To say that he was not a candidate was necessary because he allowed more support to the cause. It's that simple, incredible, absurd but real. "

To the protests initiated in Santa Cruz and Potosí, which later spread throughout the country, several factors were added that eventually led to Morales's resignation. The police rebellion, driven by the same protests, preceded the confirmation of electoral fraud and the resignation of several government leaders, who deeply weakened the indigenous leader. The coup de grace was given by the head of the Army, General Williams Kaliman, who "suggested" his resignation.

Camacho played so much of the opposition centrist vote Carlos Mesa, Citizen Community candidate who ran against the ruling apparatus in the first round in October. Mesa, who was accused of being too moderated by the tough opposition, maintains his presidential aspirations.

In the revolutionary bloc, the figure of coca grower leader Andrónico Rodríguez, vice president of the Coordination of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, stands out. Precisely the same organization from which Evo Morales himself emerged .

This young leader of the MAS, 30, is seen within the indigenous movement as a renewed version of Morales, now exiled in Mexico, who has lost part of the control of his organization. Rodriguez has opted for self-criticism and unity for the replacement process of its great leader.

" Many people see me as a possible candidate , although nothing is defined because departmental meetings are still being agreed," Andronico told Sputnik. He said he also needs the "approval" of Evo.

The fourth candidate in discord is the Korean evangelical Chi Hyun Chung, known for his misogynist and homophobic statements and who became the big surprise of the October elections by overcoming the 8% barrier. He is currently without acronyms, since the Christian Democratic Party has denied him his coverage after his constant fussing with other groups.

The date of the 2020 elections will be known next month, after the formation of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

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