Last 20 October, on an election day characterized by a broad popular participation, the Bolivian people elected brother Evo Morales Ayma as President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Evo's historic victory, against the maneuvers of the internal and regional right, the imperialism and an intense media war, is also a triumph for the entire Great Motherland.
Disregarding the electoral institutions and the people´s mandate expressed at the polls, sectors of the Bolivian opposition, with the support and leadership of the U.S. and regional oligarchies, have set a coup d'état in motion with the objective of concealing the election result from the Bolivian people. The opposition coup strategy has unleashed intense days of violence in that country, which have cost deaths, hundreds of wounded and condemnable expressions of racism towards native peoples.
The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, has declared that a coup d'état is under way against the legitimate President of Bolivia and that the opposition refuses to acknowledge its defeat at the polls and resorts to violence and force against the constitutional order.
We strongly denounce the coup d'état under way against the legitimate President of Bolivia and call on all sectors involved to stop this dangerous maneuver, which constitutes a threat to the stability of Bolivia and the entire region.
We support the call of President Evo Morales Ayma, who in a further demonstration of self-assurance and political stature, summoned the political forces to a dialogue table for peace in Bolivia, called the organizers of the violent protests to "deep reflection" and urged the people to mobilize to defend democracy.
We express the resolute support of the Cuban government and people for brother Evo Morales Ayma, the legitimately elected President of Bolivia, and for the Process of Change that he is leading in favor of the large majorities, which shows unobjectionable successes in an impressive economic growth and in the extraordinary social advances achieved, particularly, the demands of the original peoples. We call upon the International Community to stand on the side of legality and peace, in observance of the International Law and the postulates of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and to condemn the coup adventure of imperialism and the oligarchy.
Havana, 9 November 2019