United States Senator Bernie Sanders became Monday the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to express concerns about Sunday’s military coup in Bolivia, which forced its democratically elected President Evo Morales to resign. “I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia, where the military, after weeks of political unrest, intervened to remove President Evo Morales,” Sanders said, adding that “the U.S. must call for an end to violence and support Bolivia’s democratic institutions.” The Vermont senator’s remarks came after pressure from his grassroots movement which called to condemn the events of recent days in the South American country.
— source telesurenglish.net | 11 Nov 2019