The latest helicopter carrying Bolivia’ south President Evo Morales made an emergency landing about Monday due to a mechanical illness, the military said, asking suspicions among his proponents after opponents promised to shed him.
Opponents of Morales have branded the result of the several presidential elections a scams, citing alleged irregularities within the vote count File: Martin Alipaz/EPA.
No one was hurt in the scene, the air force said, otherwise the incident fuelled tensions in the nation where protesters have been rallying against the left-wing chief executive for two weeks following her disputed re-election.
The mechanical glitch position as the helicopter was taking off from a village in the Andes where Morales had been inaugurating a new road, it told. Video of the incident produced on social media.
“Brothers, today, after introduction the road in Colquiri, there were an incident with the heli that will be properly investigated, micron Morales tweeted later perfect after resuming work at government head office.
The air force understood it was investigating the causes of our fault.
The most important EC-145 helicopter “had the perfect mechanical fault in the butt rotor during take-off, which in turn prompted an emergency landing, very well the Bolivian Air Force alleged in a statement.
On Saturday, a conservative enemy leader in the eastern Gift Cruz region, Luis Fernando Camacho, threatened to “take decisive action” on Friday night to drive Morales using power.
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Former interior ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Hugo Moldiz in a Twittollower message branded the helicopter event “a criminal attack. micron
Morales enjoys accused his opponents of the plotting a coup control and relieve him.
Questions over vote count
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a staunch band of Morales, tweeted her “deep solidarity and allow for for our Indian chief of the south, who has emerged untouched from an air crash.
“The immortal style of our ancestors and liberators protect you. A hug, Sister President! ”
Foreign Minister Diego Pary condemned what he claimed was an ongoing coup d’etat in the country in a speech person extraordinary session of the Charity of American States’ (OAS) prolonged council in Washington.
“The selective attak of citizens and the surveillance forces, the call on the Military and the National Police to increase up, and finally the call supporting threat to President Et? Morales to leave the govt. in 48 hours, have proven to be clear evidence that there is hacia coup d’etat on the way that particular aims to break Bolivia’s democratic life leading to chaos or confrontation between Bolivians, type Pary said.
Deadly unrest has gripped Bolivia because of the fact Morales was named victorious of an election on July 20 for a fourth lasting.
His opponents have branded the result an important fraud, citing alleged malocclusions in the vote count.
Morales’s rival on the inside polls, Carlos Mesa, does have called for a new vote to end up being held.
Demonstrators returned to block roads to the capital La Paz using Monday in fresh protests.
In his location to supporters on Saturday, Camacho called on the military you can “be on the side of the people. very well
Morales reacted by accusing his rivalry of seeking bloodshed.
Interior Minister Carlos Romero said Monday the us government had “absolute trust” within a armed forces.
Penitente alleged on Sunday because “a violent confrontation is becoming prepared” for Monday nighttime near the presidential palace around La Paz.