Interim Bolivian president Anez calls Indigenous citizens "savages"

January 28, 2020 9:19 AM CST BY ALBERT BENDER



Bolivian opposition politician Jeanine Anez, center, wearing the Presidential sash and holding a Bible, addresses the crowd from the balcony of the Quemado palace after she declared herself interim president of the country, in La Paz, Nov. 12, 2019. The Christian fundamentalist coup leader says "savages" must not be allowed to win in elections scheduled for May. She was referring to ousted President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. | Juan Karita / AP

The outlaw Bolivian president Jeanine Añez has announced that new elections in the country will be held on May 3, 2020. And just prior to that, it was disclosed that Añez called on Bolivians to prevent the return of “savages” to power, referring to Evo Morales, the country’s first Indigenous president.

According to a Jan. 6 report from Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World, she stated: “Let’s not allow any personal ambition, on the one hand, disperse the vote…. Let’s not allow the arbitrary, the violent, and the savage return to power….” Añez’s use of the term “savage” is a racist insult not just to Indigenous Bolivians, but to all the Indigenous of North and South America.

Morales fired back: “We are ‘savage’ because we are Indigenous, peasants, factory workers, miners, union members, popular organization leaders, and the committed middle class. We are ‘savage’ because we are anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal, and anti-colonialist.”

He continued: “For the coup mongers, we are ‘savage’ because we support nationalization, because we recovered our natural resources and the Homeland’s dignity, because we fought poverty and achieved better economic growth in the region.”

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