Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales has traveled to Venezuela from his Argentine exile, according to media reports. The Argentine news agency Telam reported that Morales started yesterday afternoon (local time) with a plane from the international airport in Buenos Aires for the flight to Caracas. After the election of his party colleague Luis Arce in the presidential election last weekend, Morales announced that he would return to Bolivia.
According to Argentine media reports, Morales ’flight back to Buenos Aires is scheduled for Sunday. The first indigenous president of Bolivia resigned after a re-election overshadowed by allegations of manipulation in the face of mass protests and under pressure from the army at the end of last year. He then went into exile in Argentina.
Yesterday, the Bolivian electoral court confirmed the victory of the left-wing Arce in last weekend’s presidential election. Arce, who like Morales belongs to the Movement for Socialism (MAS), had 55 percent of the vote. The conservative ex-president Carlos Mesa achieved almost 29 percent of the vote, the right-wing conservative candidate Luis Fernando Camacho got 14 percent.
