Argentina and Mexico thank Mario Abdo for helping Evo Morales

“It was a sovereign decision that we will not forget,” said left-wing President López Obrador, in words the Argentine president later used to praise the right-wing Paraguayan government.

The statements were made at the VII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Commonwealth of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

We will not forget the entire airspace was closed when “the airspace was closed to save Evo’s life, to take him to Mexico” and an embarrassing act by the governments of Bolivia’s neighboring countries that allowed Mexican Air Force planes to land in Paraguay . López Obrador remembered to load fuel.

Morales was granted asylum in Mexico for a month and then settled in Argentina after being forced to leave Bolivia after stepping down from the presidency in what his critics saw as a coup.

The latter claims the crisis stems from fraudulent allegations in favor of the former president in the failed 2019 general election, which was later cancelled.

Evo Morales returned to Bolivia following the October 2020 election victory of Luis Arce, the presidential candidate of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), of which he is the leader, and its cleric who has ruled the country since November 8, 2020.

The Mexican’s comments were recorded on a video released during the plenary session of the Celac summit in Buenos Aires, as Argentina holds the forum’s interim presidency.

Before speaking to Argentine President Abdo Benítez, he echoed his Mexican counterpart’s words, emphasizing “how important the President of Paraguay was on that day when Evo’s (Morales) life was in danger.”