translated from Spanish: Morales plane relocated in Paraguay to await authorization to Mexico

Assumption.- Getting the permits to fly over Brazil, Peru and Ecuador and stock up on fuel was the reason that the Mexican Air Force plane evo Morales traveled on made this morning a stopover of several hours at the international airport of Asunción, before taking off for Mexico.The president of the National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (Dinac), Adgar Melgarejo, told Efe that these permits arrived after being requested from that airport, where the flight plan was authorized to Mexico, a country that will give asylum to Morales.E indicated that due to the situation that is going through Bolivia and the asylum status of Morales “they had a rush to leave Bolivian soil”. Melgarejo added that after midnight he was informed by the Paraguayan president, Mario Abdo Benitez, of the imminent arrival of the aircraft, a military plane that left Cochabamba.For his part, the Paraguayan chancellor, Antonio Rivas, told reporters that the scale was due to a request made to Paraguay by the Mexican Chancellery.” From here the other requests for authorization to carry out the overflight were established in the case of Brazil and other countries,” the chancellor said. Rivas also noted that Paraguay had already communicated its predisposition to receive Morales, but clarified that there was never an asylum request. Rivas insisted that his Government’s position is of concern about the situation in Bolivia and in favour of the restoration of dialogue, peace and democratic order.” We do not comment on internal situations in other countries,” Rivas said, asking if Morales’ resignation was a coup.The device Morales was traveling in made landfall at Asunción International Airport about 01.35 gmt (04.35 GMT), and departed about three and a half hours later. Argentina’s president-elect Alberto Fernández reported last night that he had spoken to Abdo Benitez and that he assured him that “the doors of Paraguay were open to Evo Morales”. Morales resigned from power this past Sunday following an organization of American report on serious irregularities in the electoral process. The former representative denounces that he was the subject of a coup d’état, to deprive him of his fourth consecutive electoral victory at the polls on 20 October.



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