The manifest enmity between Evo Morales, the man who ruled Bolivia between 2006 and November 2019, and The current president Luis Arcehis heir accrued in the eyes of the cocalero leader, acquires these days the characteristics of an act of death of socialism movement (MAS). The party that Morales created in 1997 was broken down at a speed that only favors the right -wing opposition. Associated with the coup d’etat of almost six years ago, this time he senses that he paves its way to return to the burned palace through the vote in the August elections this year.
Arce and Morales maintained their sour and disconcerting dispute within the MAS. But in the last hours the abyss between the ex -president and who was his Minister of Economy and executor of the “economic miracle” in the times of energy bonanza, the distance has been abymed without return. Morales created his own game “Evo Pueblo“Due to a judicial ruling that displaced it from the leadership of the official party, last November. The cult of personality, which was an irritating feature in the best moments of” El Evo “acquires at this point the characteristics of a political instrument that bears his name.” We have acronym, colors of our flag, statutes and vision of the country, “he said when announcing the novelty at the beginning of the week.”What he is doing is precisely what a televangelist would do or an evangelist of tent or someone who is initiating a religious cult, “said political analyst Yerko Ilijic to the newspaper ´La ‘.
Problem ruling
The acronym is in the hands of “arcism”, which has just formed an alliance with five minor left -wing games for the elections that will take the president as a candidate. “It’s time to join more than ever, to strengthen our bases and continue building a country where collective well -being about individual interests“He said in clear allusion to his ex -social. The division of a force that was hegemonic for more than two decades is received by the adversaries as a gift from heaven. The unity of the Bolivian democratic opposition tries New moment of the United States from the return of Donald Trump.
Arce has a very low popularity. A network poll one assigns a 1%acceptance. Morales’s intention to vote is close to 20% thanks to its influence on the peasantry. “Lucho”, as they tell the president, even his former partners, pays The price of an economic crisis without a solution to view. The “Bolivian model” relied on gas resources, which not only significantly decreased to the point that the Central Bank faces a severe shortage of reserves: gasoline is also missing. Low inflation, one of the bastions that Arce was attributed during his passage through the Ministry of Economy, can no longer be guaranteed. The recent 10% tariff on Bolivian exports imposed by Washington SUpone another complication for a country that sells products to the United States for more than 200 million annually. Citizen discomfort foresees conflicts in the midst of the electoral campaign. For now, agricultural producers, trade unionists, businessmen, transporters and civic committees of the country, intend to occupy peace on April 23.
Way without return
Morales believed to be the only leader capable of getting Bolivia from the swamp and faced Arce early when the expectations horizon was still not so discouraged. The most has exploded before the economy. Andrónico Rodríguez, A young leader close to Morales tried without luck to bring positions and make available to an impossible arrangement his good image in the surveys. The “EVISTAS” began to attack him. The former president himself did. “I tell our brother Evo that he must feel proud, and not jealous, of many young people who follow their steps from the union leadership,” Rodríguez said. Morales disavowed him. “Of course we are proud, but some brothers say ‘Andrónico President’. With that they are only wearing the Andrononic brother.”
The Cocalero leader, who has his bastion in the central region of the Chapare, You cannot imagine outside the center of political decisions. Power is its fuel. But that thirst has also been criticized by his former vice president, Álvaro García Linera, declared “enemy” for those who now formed Evo Pueblo.
The fight between Arce and Morales develops along with a thorny judicial issue. At the end of last October, the former president was accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of “stupid aggravated with incitement to prostitution.” Morales, he denounced, had had a daughter with a 15 -year -old teenager in the border city of Tupiza, in 2016, When I was in charge of the Bolivian State and was 57 years old. The Prosecutor’s Office ratified at the beginning of March the arrest warrant against him. “I don’t miss me or worry me. All neoliberal governments, including the current one, threatened me, persecuted me, jailed me, tried to kill me. I’m not afraid! They won’t shut up!” He said days ago.
