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After more than a year of the general elections of October 18, 2020, former President Evo Morales denounced this Sunday that there was a plan to prevent this process, which included the armed attack of policemen in disguise against soldiers in the Cochabamba Tropics area. .
He said that the information was provided to him by “the same police and military brothers” and that the objective would have been to blame these attacks on the coca growers. At that time, Morales was in Argentina, after having fled the country after failing in his fourth continuous re-election attempt.
“Now we inform ourselves, we cross information, totally confirmed, what was the plan? The military exercises began and the Police had to disguise themselves as civilians, coca growers or countrymen, to shoot at the Army and blame the peasant movement of the Tropics and with that justify a foreign military intervention and with that foreign military intervention suspend the elections” , he said on his radio show Kausachun Coca.
He did not specify which countries would have been behind that interventionist plan, although he repeatedly accused the United States, the European Union and Brazil of having promoted an alleged coup against him.
According to Morales’ version, before the elections, the transitional government of Añez promoted provocative operations in the coca-growing area of Cochabamba, seeking a reaction that would justify the suspension of the national elections in which the current president, Luis Arce Catacora, finally won.
In June 2021, the former senator of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Omar Aguilar, revealed that Morales Ayma wanted to be a candidate for the Presidency of the blue party in the general elections of October 18, 2020.
“I am saving that for the Prosecutor’s Office, but initially I can say that he (Morales) had the intention of still being a candidate based on Constitutional Sentence 084/2017,” said the former parliamentarian in statements to Periodismo que Cuenta, which later they were replicated by various media, including the Cochabamba newspaper Opinion.
