The Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicilloparticipated this Monday in the presentation of the book “Evo: Operation Rescue” in the city of La Plata and highlighted that the work “calls to not forget that we all have the responsibility to make decisions when history calls us”.
“East it is a revealing book that shows behind the scenes of a dramatic moment in the recent history of our continent, and does so with a special level of detail about those days in which the life of Evo Morales was in danger“He expressed to the provincial president about the work written by Alfredo Serrano Mansilla.
Kicillof stressed that during those days of 2019 “there were many protagonists, including the president Alberto Fernandez and the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerwho along with thousands of people helped Evo in the feat of escaping from Bolivia after the coup,” he said.
The provincial president appreciated that the work “shows that there are crucial moments where the construction of the future is not done from the highest spheres of power, but is achieved with small acts of dedication and solidarity“.
For his part, the former vice president of Bolivia Alvaro Garcia Linera stated that the book “is sobering for all Latin Americansbecause it is the story of an attack on democracy, and the first lesson is that what we naturally experience today can be broken”.
“It’s a time when people with rotten souls have emerged and are willing to go over what is normal, democracy, the vote, the majority, to try to come to power,” he said.
These episodes that attacked popular processes and that took place repeatedly in Latin America were not by chance or a spontaneous product of social indignation, but were clearly orchestrated at a continental level. pic.twitter.com/CDv1oJEEMg
— Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) March 7, 2022
In this regard, García Linera warned that “our democracies are not safe” but under “siege”, and the “siege comes from privileged groups that rabidly and violently resist losing privileges“.
García Linera thanked the role played by Argentina and especially by President Fernández in rescuing Morales and remarked that the country “has won over half of our soul, which is white and light blue like its beautiful flag.”
The Chief of Advisors to the Governor, Carlos Bianco; the Ministers of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity, Estela Díaz; and Environment, Daniela Vilar; the Ministers of Production, Science and Technological Innovation, Augusto Costa; and Health, Nicolás Kreplak, among others.
The book was written by the Spanish author Alfredo Serrano Mancillawho from his militancy in the Puebla Group articulated with the then president-elect Fernández and the Government of Mexico the escape of Evo from Bolivia on November 11, 2019, one day after leaving power forced by the military and police forces and by the Bolivian Workers Central.
Published by Sudamericana and with a prologue by President Fernández, the book tells in detail that operation that ended successfully; then narrates Morales’ 11-month stay in Argentina and, finally, elaborates on the former president’s return to Bolivia, exactly one year after his flight, after the victory of his ally Luis Arce in the presidential elections of October 2020.
