Evo appears next to Andrónico to ask for unity from the MAS around his leadership

It was a different Sunday in Evo Morales’ routine. This time he appeared surrounded by leaders on his radio program Kawsachun Coca. A little later, Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the Senate and mentioned as a possible candidate for the Presidency, joined in place of Evo Morales and Luis Arce.

Morales pointed out that he was late and that he couldn’t be on the program a week ago. The word that The most heard in two hours of the program was “unity” of the MAS.

Evo and Andrónico, appeared together yesterday on two occasions, first on the radio program and then at a conference.

The leaders asked the Masistas for unity around Evo Morales and the top leader of the coca growers and former president made it clear on two occasions that he is not defeated. “They think I’m cornered. A lawyer tells me that they are making me grow with what they make appear. In my experience, the victim always wins. We are victims” and then closed by remarking: “We are not dead, we are still alive with more strength.”

Morales said that the intention is to link Andrónico with archism, with authorities such as ministers María Nela Prada and Eduardo Del Castillo, in addition to Luis Arce, in a supposed binomial for the elections nationals of the year 2025, but assured that that will not happen.

He also said that what the Arce Government is doing to the evista wing of the MAS “is the second blow to our revolution and economic model” because The first was during his administration in 2019.

“There are ethical differences with the national government, colleagues, moral heritage is more important than material heritage. For me the Politics is a science of effort and sacrifice for humble people”Morales said.

For his part, Andrónico Rodríguez called for unity and pointed out that the government of Luis Arce has not achieved his objectives drawn up for the bicentennial.

“We have a cycle of economic recession, lasting at least a decade, which is why a lot of unity at the national level of all social movements is required, such as the one achieved since 2005 at the head of “Evo Morales, not only in speech but in deeds,” said the parliamentarian who is president of the Senate.

Morales also referred to the arrests of the peasant leader Humberto Claros and the indigenous leader Ramiro Cucho, in addition to the people who were blocking, indicating that the Government of Arce is worse than neoliberal governments. “More arrests, more processes. We are worse than in the days of the neoliberals, but I say that it is a matter of time (for Arce’s mandate to end) and this is over. Unfortunately they are wrong by doing this kind of repression and criminalizing social protest,” indicated the coca grower leader.

In an interview with state media, the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, pointed out that the ambition of Evo Morales and his spokespersons seek to confront to the producing families of the Tropics of Cochabamba with the national government.

“There is a desire from Evo (Morales) and some of his spokespersons to make us see as if we were at odds with the Tropic of Cochabamba, which is totally false. We have worked for the Tropics as we have done with many regions and we regret that in this personal desire and unhealthy ambition of Evo Morales to impose his candidacy by hook or by crook is to harm this region that has sheltered him,” said Minister Prada.

He regretted that the well-being of the producer families who suffered during the 24 days of the blockade was not prioritized. “What we saw in such dramatic images, producers who have had to throw their production on the side of the road who have lost a lot of their production.”