{"id":210499,"date":"2019-12-09T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=210499"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:24:44","slug":"evo-morales-travels-to-cuba-temporarily-for-medical-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/evo-morales-travels-to-cuba-temporarily-for-medical-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evo Morales travels to Cuba temporarily for medical consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Bolivian President Evo Morales, exiled in Mexico, traveled to Cuba this Friday for a medical consultation, the ex-president&#8217;s diplomatic and close sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources from the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations indicated that \u201cMorales traveled in the morning to Cuba,\u201d and that the former president reported that \u201cit is a temporary trip.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consulted by <em>EFE<\/em>, former Bolivian Minister of Health Gabriela Monta\u00f1o confirmed that \u201cPresident Evo Morales is in Cuba for a medical consultation with the Cuban medical team that previously treated him in Bolivia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 4, the Organization of American States (OAS) reiterated its allegations of \u201cirregularities\u201d in the last presidential elections in Bolivia by presenting the final version of the report that led to the departure of the hitherto president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OAS published the preliminary version of the report on November 10, a document that generated a political earthquake in Bolivia and in a few hours led to an announcement of electoral repetition by Morales and his subsequent resignation forced by the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the elections in question, held on October 20, Morales was elected for the fourth time as Bolivian president by winning in the first round by a margin greater than ten points, according to the official count, against his main rival, ex-President Carlos Mesa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final OAS report published this Wednesday, however, indicated that \u201cthe indicated manipulations and irregularities make it impossible to be certain about the margin of victory of candidate (Evo) Morales over his rival (Carlos) Mesa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This same Friday, Morales posted on his Twitter account that \u201cthe right-wing coup\u201d accuses him of electoral fraud \u201cwhen not even the OAS report speaks of fraud, but of irregularities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd the law foresees that if there are irregularities, the voting must be repeated at those polls. They stole our victory in the first round,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morales left his country on November 11 after the Armed Forces forced him to leave office and was given asylum in Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been speculated that Morales wants to travel from Cuba to Argentina once Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez assumes the presidency of that South American nation on December 10, and from there organize the strategy of his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), for the next elections in Bolivia, whose date has not yet been set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A law agreed between the opposition, which came from the Bolivian interim government, chaired by Jeanine \u00c1\u00f1ez, and the MAS, with a majority in Parliament, annulled the October 20 elections to begin an urgent process towards new elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bolivian President Evo Morales, exiled in Mexico, traveled to Cuba this Friday for a medical consultation, the ex-president&#8217;s diplomatic and close sources said. Sources from the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations indicated that \u201cMorales traveled in the morning to Cuba,\u201d and that the former president reported that \u201cit is a temporary trip.\u201d Consulted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3606,"featured_media":210500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13902],"tags":[18961,27380],"ppma_author":[33548,17270],"class_list":["post-210499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","tag-cuban-government","tag-evo-morales"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evo Morales travels to Cuba temporarily for medical consultation | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The former minister of health of Bolivia 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