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December 26, 2019

Evo Morales Vows to Return to Bolivia by Next Christmas
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Longtime Bolivian President Evo Morales is vowing to return to Bolivia,
after he was ousted in what he and others have described as a military
coup. Morales is currently in exile in Argentina. On Tuesday, he vowed
to return to Bolivia by next Christmas.

Evo Morales: "For reasons of security, I can't go into detail about the
plan we have for returning to Bolivia. But one has to go back to one's
country, and the de facto government can't understand that. It's not a
transitional government. If it were a transitional government, it
wouldn't start changing economic policy, social programs; it would just
organize elections."

In a separate interview Tuesday, Morales also claimed the United States
played a role in forcing him from power, accusing the U.S. of
orchestrating his ouster in order to gain access to Bolivia's vast
lithium reserves.


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