Morales’s remarks come weeks after protests forced him to resign, abandoning his bid for unconstitutional fourth term.
Former Bolivia president Evo Morales has claimed he was forced from office by a US-backed coup aimed at gaining access to the South American country’s vast lithium resources.
The remarks came in an exclusive interview with AFP news agency on Tuesday, weeks after Morales resigned as president on November 10 following protests against his controversial re-election to an unconstitutional fourth term in a poll widely denounced as rigged.
Since then, Morales – Bolivia’s first Indigenous president – has claimed to have been the victim of a coup d’etat.
“It was a national and international coup d’etat,” Morales told AFP in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, where he has been living in exile since claiming asylum. “Industrialised countries don’t want competition.”….more here
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