Bolivia's outgoing president Evo Morales announced his departure for asylum in Mexico on Twitter just after 9:30 p.m. (0130 GMT) on November 11 night, vowing to return “with more strength and energy.”
“It hurts to leave the country for political reasons, but I will stay in touch,” he said. “Soon I will return with more strength and energy.”
Mexico has granted asylum to Bolivia's former president Evo Morales, Mexico's top diplomat said on November 11, after the South American country's veteran socialist leader resigned in the wake of a disputed election .
“We will immediately proceed to inform Bolivia's foreign ministry that under international law, it should offer safe conduct” to Morales, Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters.
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The departure of Bolivia's first indigenous president, one of a wave of leftists who dominated Latin America's politics at the start of the century, has failed to end weeks of violent protests about allegations of fraud at the October 20 re-election.
