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Morales affirms that there will be “a seizure” in Bolivia if he is disqualified in the 2025 elections
The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) said in an interview with EFE that there will be a “convulsion” in the country if his presidential candidacy for the 2025 elections is disqualified and blamed the Government of Luis Arce, with whom he has a fight despite belonging to the same party.
“If Evo is disabled, there will be a seizure. If you want that, well, that will be the responsibility of the Government (…) that’s my calculation, I’m sincere,” warned the also leader of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS).
Morales considered that “this kind of struggle is only won with mass action,” and said that he heard that various sectors anticipate “difficulties” in case his presidential candidacy is annulled.
At the end of last year, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling in which it mentions that indefinite re-election “is not a human right” and that it is only applied for once in a continuous or discontinuous way.
According to Morales, this must be understood as “an insinuation of a possible disqualification of his candidacy.”
The three-time president of Bolivia insisted that he is “legally and constitutionally authorized” to be a candidate, according to the consultations he himself made to “national and international experts.”
The ruling Movement for Socialism turns 29 years old and it is the first time that there are two separate celebrations.
In the city of La Paz, headquarters of the Government and the Legislative, the ‘arcist’ block celebrates, which supports President Luis Arce, while this Saturday will be the turn of the ‘evista’ wing, related to Evo Morales, in the town of Yapacaní, in the department of Santa Cruz.
Last year Morales and Arce coincided on the anniversary of the party in the Tropic of Cochabamba, the political bastion of the former president, in which there was friction among the militants of the MAS.
In that event, Evo Morales questioned the management of the one who was his Minister of Economy during his government, while Arce urged the MAS not to be afraid of the “pluralism” of ideas.
Morales pointed out that Arce “made a big mistake” by pointing out that “we should not be afraid of the pluralism of ideas” since, in his opinion, that marks an “ideological difference” with the ‘arcist’ sector, since the MAS is traditionally “anti-imperialist.”
The former president also questioned that the Arce Administration has not fulfilled two of the main mandates he received when he arrived at the Government in 2020, such as “prosecusing and imprisoning the coup plotters and genocide” for the 2019 crisis and “recovering the country’s economy”.
Morales resigned from the Presidency in 2019 after considering that he was the victim of a “coup d’état” after the frustrated elections of that year, between complaints from the opposition of an electoral fraud in his favor for a fourth consecutive term.
On November 12, 2019, Jeanine Áñez assumed the interim command of the country as the second vice president of the Senate, two days after the resignation of Evo Morales and all the officials in the presidential succession line.
“I thought that if (I) would return (to be president of Bolivia) it would be to do justice (…) because I have been given a (state) coup,” he said.
To the division for the anniversary of the MAS is added the struggle for the legality of the MAS congress, which was held last year in the Cochabamba region, and in which Morales was proclaimed as the “single candidate” for the 2025 presidential elections.
The ruling sectors related to Arce called for another congress, which will be held in May, after the electoral authority determined that a new meeting should be held.
Morales insisted that the congress that re-elected him as the top leader of the MAS met all the requirements and that the electoral body acted with “illegality,” while the call of the “arcists” is made by those who “are not militants” in that party.
The former president ratified that the MAS “is united at the level of the bases” and that a few leaders decided to demarcate themselves in exchange for alleged “bribes” offered to them by the Government.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori, admitted to a hospital for probable tumor in the tongue
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, 85, was admitted to a clinic in Lima and will be operated on for a probable tumor at the base of the tongue, his daughter Keiko Fujimori reported on Monday.
The former president (1990-2000), who received a humanitarian pardon in 2017 and was released at the end of last year, has received cancer treatment for an injury to the oral area in the past and has had recurrent medical attention for the same reason.
Precisely, his medical record was the reason for former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to grant him the pardon before he served 25 years of sentence for crimes against humanity.
Last night, on behalf of his family, his daughter and former presidential candidate reported on his account on the social network X that his father was admitted to the Delgado Clinic in Lima to prepare him and perform a surgical intervention related to his tongue injury.
He added that the medical report literally specifies that Fujimori has “an Ambulatory Presumptive Diagnosis of malignant tumor at the base of the tongue with probable right cervical metastases.”
In this sense, the also leader of the Fuerza Popular party announced that they will carry out an examination under general anesthesia and biopsy in the operating room for their father.
“The objective of this intervention is to perform a biopsy that allows us to confirm the exact nature of that disease. The results of the biopsy will still take several days,” he said.
He stated that his father and his family trust that he will be able to “overcome and recover” and thanked the prayers of those who appreciate his father.
In recent weeks, the images shared on social networks show the former president walking through the streets of Lima with people in his care and receiving in a good mood the greetings of his supporters.
Likewise, Fujimori opened a YouTube channel where he reviews his management by the government and in the last of his deliveries, last Friday, he denied that he had transported drugs on the presidential plane, as it emerges from a judicial process that recently expelled his children, and asked his followers not to be “poononed” by his “enemies.”
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Police enter La Sorbonne to expel dozens of pro-Palestinian students
The riot police entered the Sorbonne University of Paris, the most emblematic in France, to expel dozens of pro-Palestinian students who had settled in the main courtyard of the building next to the Pantheon to protest the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip.
The police intervention, which took place without incidents and without the reporting of arrests, at least at first, happened after another blockade on Friday by about 200 university students from another prestigious university center, Sciences Po in Paris, also in protest against what they called “the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people.”
The Sorbonne, created in the 13th century, is an emblem of the university and French culture through which famous figures (Pierre and Marie Curie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Louis Pasteur or Victor Hugo, among others) have passed as students or professors and was one of the main centers of the revolution of May 1968.
Jacques, a Sciences Po student who went to the Sorbonne on Monday in solidarity with the protest of his colleagues there, told EFE that the mobilization was a response “to the genocide that Israel is committing, with the complicity of (Joe) Biden and (Emmanuel) Macron.”
“We are going to close ranks against repression,” said the university student, alluding to police pressure in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the investigation for apology of open terrorism against a prominent left-wing leader, Mathilde Panot, for a controversial statement published after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The young man denied that there is a political manipulation of these mobilizations by Panot’s party, the Unsubmissive France (LFI), the main leftist formation in the Assembly.
“We are the young people who direct the protests. Whoever says otherwise is wrong. The majority are not affiliated with a specific party,” added Jacques, who promised to “continue with the mobilizations,” as at Columbia University, in the United States.
In addition to Panot, the Franco-Palestinian jurist Rima Hassan, a candidate for the European elections, has also been summoned by the police for advocacy of terrorism.
The controversial statement of the head of the LFI in the Assembly described the Hamas action of October 7 as “an offensive by Palestinian forces” and was paralleled with “the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy” in the Palestinian territories.
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Desertions in the Russian Army in Ukraine are growing, according to Kiev’s military intelligence
The number of desertions is growing in the ranks of the Russian Army in occupied Ukraine, according to information published on Monday by Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR).
“The desertions increase among the armed formations of the southern military district of the Russian occupation army,” reads the GUR note. “In total, more than 18,000 Russian soldiers have voluntarily left their military units in this district,” the text adds.
The territories occupied by Russia in the Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporiyia and Kherson are included in the Southern Military District of Russia.
According to Kiev’s military intelligence, about 12,000 of these deserters belonged to the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, which participates in hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
Information recently published by the Russian dissident media Mediazona estimated the total number of convictions for desertion handed down by Russian courts at 7,400, since the partial mobilization decreed by the Kremlin in September 2022.
They also alluded to the “record” number of Russians who evade military service and are asking for asylum in Western countries.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff today reported massive Russian casualties and losses in the last 24 hours, after a week of Russian advances in Donetsk that has led the Army to recognize that the situation has worsened on the east front.
According to the last military report, Russia suffered more than 1,300 casualties during the last day, a figure substantially higher than those reported in previous days.
In addition, Kiev claims to have destroyed 37 Russian artillery systems in the last 24 hours.
Today, the “most complicated situation” for Ukraine occurs in the areas of Pokrovsk and Kurajiv, northwest and southwest respectively of Avdivka, which was occupied by Russia last February.
Ukrainian troops in this area have delayed their defensive line in the face of constant Russian attacks.
The head of the Army, Oleksandr Sirski, has highlighted the intensity of the fighting in the Khasiv Yar area, a town located about ten kilometers west of the occupied Bajmut, which is, according to Kiev, a Russian priority objective.
Despite these advances, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, assured on Monday from Riyadh that the war against Ukraine launched two years ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “strategic debacle” for Russia.
“The last thing I’m going to say about it is that if you take a step back and analyze it, I think this aggression by Russia has been a strategic debacle for Russia,” said the head of American diplomacy at the special session of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which ends today in Riyadh.
For Blinken, “as a whole, Russia is weaker economically. He is weaker militarily, given the destruction of so many of his forces. And it is weaker diplomatically in much of the world, not in everything, but in a large part.”
In this sense, the Secretary of State pointed to China as a country that is not supplying weapons and ammunition to Russia, but is providing “incalculable support” to its defense industry, through the sale of microelectronic products, machine tools and optics.
Blinken acknowledged that the increase in Russia’s production capacities is something that Europe is “deeply concerned about turning against it” once the war in Ukraine is over.
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