‘We freed ourselves of IMF & had big plans on exports’ – Exiled Bolivian president Morales

Ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales accused the Organization of American States (OAS) of making a political decision in backing the right-wing opposition against him and said the organization serves the “North American empire.”

Speaking in exile from Mexico a day after he fled Bolivia, Morales said he “could not understand” how his military commanders could show such “disloyalty.”

“That confirms that my great crime is to be indigenous. It’s a class problem,” he said.

The exiled president said that after freeing itself from the International Monetary Fund, the Bolivian economy was doing better.

We had big plans in the field of exports.

Yet, the coup plotters “do not accept the nationalization of natural resources,” Morales said.

He also said the appointment of Jeanine Añez as “interim president” confirms the coup and called for a national dialogue to end violence in his country.

Morales also claimed that a mechanical failure on a helicopter he was travelling on in early November was “not accidental”
and said he wants the incident to be investigated. The helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing just after takeoff due to a “mechanical fault in the tail rotor.”