by the El Reportero‘s wire services
After Evo Morales resigned and asylum in Mexico, Jeanine Añez, an opposition senator assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia.
Morales abandoned power under pressure from the opposition and the Armed Forces leaving an institutional vacuum on Monday in the Andean country.
“We are going to call elections with proven personalities, that they are the ones that carry an electoral process that reflects what they want and the feeling of all Bolivians,” the second vice president told the press at the entrance of the Legislative Assembly of La Paz. of the Senate.
“We already have a calendar. I think the population screams that on January 22 we already have an elected president, ”he added.
After a night of violent clashes in the Bolivian capital, which left burning buildings and looting, the second vice president of the Senate, said she was willing to temporarily assume the government, as indicated by the regulations on the line of succession.
“I will take on the challenge only to be what is necessary to call for transparent elections, so that Bolivians have the certainty that their vote will be respected,” said the legislator of the Democratic Union party in an interview with the television channel Red One, in which he did not clarify when his assumption could occur.
Upon arriving at El Alto airport, near La Paz, Añez was taken by an Air Force helicopter to a military academy, from where she would be transferred to Congress, Senator Arturo Murillo told reporters.
Evo Morales arrives in Mexico and insists he will continue fighting
Evo Morales descended from the plane in Mexico in the company of former vice president Alvaro Garcia Linera and health personnel.
In his brief statements, Morales gave details of the coup d’état following his electoral triumph on Oct. 20.
“My ideology remains unchanged despite the coup d’état and the most important thing is that I am alive to continue the fight,” Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales said on his arrival in Mexico this Tuesday.
‘We are now three weeks into the last stage of the civic political coup joined by the national police,’ he said.
The former ruler expressed gratitude for the role played by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and all the efforts made by Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.
He stressed that thanks to them they were able to preserve their lives because of the threats of the coup plotters, who even offered to pay 50,000 dollars for their heads.
“As long as I live, I will continue in politics, I will continue fighting, and we are certain that the peoples of the world have the right to free themselves and they will,” Morales said, visibly moved.
Nayarit beach reopened after it was privatized in 2016
Environmental officials say the beach’s closure by the previous government was illegal
A Nayarit beach that was closed to the public in 2016 has been reopened by the federal government.
The Secretariat of the Environment (Semarnat) revoked a concession for La Lancha beach to a real estate consortium, reopening it to the public.
The beach in Punta Mita was closed to the public when the office of maritime land zones (Zofemat) granted an exclusive concession of the land to a consortium comprised of DINE, Rancho Punta Mita and Cantiles de Mita.
Semarnat said it will file a complaint against Mariana Boy Tamborrell, then head of Zofemat and currently in charge of Mexico City’s environmental protection agency. The federal department claims that the privatization of La Lancha beach was illegal.
Environmentalists removed the company’s gate to the beach on Friday and invited people to visit once again.
