CDMX.- Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president formally applied for asylum in Mexico, after the same government offered him such support, Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard reported in a short message from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.” I inform you that a few moments ago I received a call from President Evo Morales, who responded to our invitation and verbally and formally applied for political asylum in our country,” Marcelo Ebrard said.
He said that in terms of the current legilslacion, the Mexican Chancellery, after the opinion of the Ministry of the Interior, in the voice of Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero, had decided to grant political asylum to Mr Evo Morales, for humanitarian reasons and by virtue of the urgent situation he faces in Bolivia, where his life and integrity were at risk. It noted that the Senate of the Republic would be informed of the development of these facts of relevance to Mexico’s foreign policy, and thus requested its support for this decision.
Marcelo Ebrard also reported that they had informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, so that, under international law, it proceeds to grant the corresponding safe conduct and security, as well as guarantees that Morales’ life, personal integrity and freedom will not be put at risk and that it can be put to safety.
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Previously, during The President’s morning conference, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Ebrard had mentioned declared that it was a coup that happened in Bolivia, because the army called for the resignation of the president, Evo Morales, which violates the constitutional order in that country. So the position that Mexico has defined on this situation is to claim, demand respect for constitutional order and democracy in Bolivia, he noted. He reiterated then that The government of Mexico will assert the right to asylum. “We are also going to request urgent meeting from the Organization of American States because, despite the seriousness of the events, what happened yesterday in the face of military pronouncement and police operations was silence,” Ebrard said, he said, he said, he said, therefore they will propose that there be an urgent meeting of the Organization of American States to speak about it and to exercise what the organization’s letter states: protecting freedoms and democracy in the member countries.” So there is no constitutional foresight, as far as our knowledge goes, in the event that the army demands the resignation of the president in turn; that is, it entered a land not provided for in the Constitution, there is an interruption of the constitutional order. Mexico, of course, would not welcome any kind of government that does not come from a legitimate electoral process,” he said. In addition, the chancellor stressed that there are 10 thousand connationals in that country and the instruction of the Mexican embassy and the consulate is that they must act diligently to protect them against any emergency situation that they may face, whether today or in the coming days.
