July 7, 2022, 12:14 PM
July 7, 2022, 12:14 PM
The former second vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, Susana Rivero, responded to Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga by indicating that they are true the chats that the former president presented. He admitted the meetings that took place at the Bolivian Catholic University from November 10 to 12, 2019; He said that in these meetings a constitutional solution to the crisis was sought after the resignation of Evo Morales, as well as the departure of the former masista president from the country. However, he assured that this constitutional solution was not achieved, so the opponents executed a “B” plan, which was a coup d’état.
Former President Quiroga stated this Wednesday that Susana Rivero and the former president of the Senate, Adriana Salvatierra (both from MAS), agreed to the transitionbut that everything changed once MAS leader Evo Morales made landfall in Mexico on the afternoon of November 12.
According to Tuto Quiroga, from abroad Evo Morales ordered that all MAS assembly members resign their seats, which did not happen. Those deputies and senators later endorsed Jeanine Áñez’s management, because 78 laws were approved during his administration and they sent them to the Executive Power so that she promulgates them as interim constitutional president.
Rivero responded through Twitter, in seven points. In the first one asks why didn’t they show Tuto’s chats before? They are proof of what I have said ad nauseam, that there was no power vacuum, that we were trying to conduct political dialogue to transition constitutional, that on November 12, 2019 a fighter plane was chasing me, that same day they advanced their plan b, that of the coup d’état.
Then he said: “Who was on November 12, 2019 trying, despite differences, violence and intimidation by the military, to lead the constitutional transition? Adriana Salvatierra and I, not those who figure today. Bolivia deserves justice and truth, they went ahead with their plan b”.
In a third point, he points out that the “media with a pro-coup political line in 2019 try with subtlety to change the truth.”
He recalled that there are judgments of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), such as 12/2022 in the Coup II case, which has evidence of illegal assumption and constitutional rupture, and judgment 52/2021, “that I won against the TCP, but that none (of them) speak (those media).
He stressed that the meeting at the Bolivian Catholic University on 11/12/19 “is irrefutable proof of the inexistence of a vacuum of power and of the attempt to seek a legal and constitutional solution to the crisis. We tried, despite such a situation, but we did not succeed. They had a plan B with the support of the military and police, it was a coup (of state)”, he asserted.
Later he said: “I challenge you spread Tuto Quiroga’s chats, please, for those who still have doubts about what happened on November 11 and 12, 2019. None of them talk about (Jeanine) Áñez. There is talk of intimidation against me, the life of my family, the Mexican plane and Evo’s safety.”
However, Rivera does not explain why. neither she nor Adriana Salvatierra agreed to assume the presidency of the State, since both were in the line of succession.
Nor did he address a key issue: What was discussed in that meeting in which the former Democratic senator, Óscar Ortiz, the late Monsignor Eugenio Scarpellini, she and Salvatierra were present.
Former President Jorge Quiroga and the memory of the Catholic Church agree that both Rivero and Salvatierra accepted that an opponent assume command, it was even suggested Tarijeño senator Víctor Hugo Zamora, but later it was discarded because it was not constitutional. “So they did not object to it being Jeanine Áñez either,” Tuto said Wednesday at a press conference after testifying at the La Paz Prosecutor’s Office in the framework of the investigations of the Golpe I case.
In the sixth point of his response, Rivero points out: “Now I see the family of (Jeanine) Áñez and the military talking about injustices, they do have trials, lawyers, due process, not planes and tanks chasing them, killing them, or inventing criminal proceedings, environmental protection, inspections, illegal migratory alerts, or harassment of mothers.”
Finally, he maintains that “hoping this is my last tweet about this coup, It goes without saying that the lives that were taken from us as a result of their coup adventure have no forgiveness.”
