Cocaleros ratify Morales as their leader and proclaim the pair Evo – Álvaro for 2019

Coke growers from Cochabamba Chapare on Friday ratified President Evo Morales as their main leader and proclaimed him as candidates, along with Álvaro García for the 2019 general election.

For nearly three days , the producers of the leaf They met at the XXV Ordinary Congress of the Federation of Rural Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba

The Organic Commission of the conclave defined the "ratification" of Morales "as Executive Secretary of the Federation of the Tropic 2018-2020 ".

While the Political Committee decided "unanimously and with consensus" the proclamation "to the pair Evo Morales Ayma and Álvaro García Linera as a candidate in the general elections of 2019" and "defend the process of change".

"I congratulate you for this ratification, but you know brothers and sisters of the Tropics, ratify Evo as a cadre either for pride or symbolically.In two years I think that two or three times I arrived at the meeting of the Thank you very much for this trust, we will continue together, we have never given up, we will never leave, we will never abandon the Bolivian people, "said the president.

The members of the confederation underlined this decision and expressed their joy for the unusual stay of the president in the direction for 30 years.

As in the inauguration of the event on Wednesday, he stressed the unity of the sector which, he said, is the basis of his government. Morales badumed the presidency in 2006 and fulfills his third term amid controversy over his desire to achieve a fourth consecutive term

In this context, he has criticized opponents such as former minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín and former president Carlos Mesa. In addition, criticized, as usual, the policy of the United States and in particular to the senator of this country Ros Lehtinen, who called the dictator.

"So much fear of Evo? Finally it's not Evo's fear, it's the fear of the social forces of all Bolivia, of our social movements, of all the Bolivian right (…) of international law at the head of the American empire, all against Evo.They must be prepared, what lies they will invent, what lies will they plan? "Morales questioned [19659010] "I congratulate you for this ratification, but you know brothers and sisters of the Tropic, ratify Evo as leader either for pride or symbolically.In two years I think that two or three times I arrived at the meeting of the Federation. much for this trust, we will continue together, we have never abandoned ourselves, we will never leave, we will never abandon the Bolivian people, "said the president. (07/27/2018)