Page Seven / La Paz
Former President Evo Morales assured this Sunday that most of the vice presidents in Bolivia are “conspirators”, except for the one who was his partner during 14 years of government, Álvaro García Linera. Two weeks ago he declared that García Linera “never” blackmailed him, “like others” do, when choosing his ministerial cabinet.
“I say, most of the vice presidents are conspirators, except for Álvaro García Linera,” assured the coca grower leader and top leader of the MAS, during his Sunday program on Kausachun Coca radio.
The former president gave as an example the demonstrations of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) during the government administration of Hernán Siles Suazo, when he was a candidate for the then Popular Democratic Unity, between 1982 and 1984. He said that on that occasion he was his binomial partner, Jaime Paz Zamora, who mobilized the labor entity against Siles Zuazo and in favor of his interests.
Morales alluded to García Linera, in the midst of a growing internal struggle in the MAS, in which his followers -and himself- question the current vice president, David Choquehuanca, for having the sympathy of a large bloc within the party.
Two weeks ago, on the same program, he said that when he was president he was never blackmailed by García Linera at the time of forming his cabinet. “I just want to say, when Álvaro García Linera was vice president, he has never conditioned or blackmailed me. He has never suggested (ministers) to me,” he stated.
