The Bolivian president, Luis Arcetraveled this Sunday to Brazil to attend the G20 Summit which will take place in Rio de Janeiro on November 18 and 19.
The president made the announcement through a message on social network X accompanied by an image in which he hands the baton, a symbol of presidential power, to the vice president. David Choquehuanca.
Arce highlighted the G20 as “one of the most important economic forums on the planet, and that represents great opportunities for Bolivia.”
Several leaders will attend the event, such as the presidents of the United States, Joe Bidende China, Xi Jinping, de Argentina, Javier Mileywhile the Russian president, Vladimir Putindecided not to travel, when an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for his role in the invasion of ukraine.
The leaders and representatives present at the G20, which brings together the largest economies in the world, will speak in two of the three sessions in which the Brazilian presidency, led by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has divided this meeting.
It is also expected that at the meeting ‘The Alliance against Hunger and Poverty‘, an initiative of the Brazilian president with concrete agreements from 39 countries and 30 international organizations to benefit some 500 million people.
Among the commitments of organizations such as FAO, IFAD, WFP and the EU and of countries such as Spain, France, Germany and Norway to finance projects to support small farmers in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Angola, and in water access projects in Brazil , Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Senegal.
The G20 is made up of the European Union (EU) and 19 countries such as Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, United States, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia , United Kingdom, South Africa and Turkey.
On Thursday, Evo Morales lost control of the Movement Towards Socialism (BUT), the party that he led for more than two decades and that brought him to power between 2006 and 2019. In the midst of the dispute with Luis Arce, The Bolivian justice system determined to validate a parallel congress in which an ally of Arce, the leader Grover García, was elected as head of the party.
Through a resolution, the Bolivia’s Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) ended the dispute over the party’s leadership and validated García as the new president of the MAS. The magistrates Gonzalo Hurtado e Yván Espadawho sign the resolution, indicated that the National Congress of the MAS-IPSP, held in El Alto between May 3 and 5, 2024, and convened by factions of the founding organizations of the party, allied to the Government, is valid .
However, Morales and his followers had also held a party convention in the town of Lauca Ñ, in the Chapare of Cochabamba, the political and union stronghold of the coca grower leader, in which they ratified him as head of the MAS. The ruling of the Fourth Chamber of the TCP, issued this Thursday, endorses the “arcista” congress of El Alto and displaces Morales.
With that decision, Former president Evo Morales is stripped of his powers as head of the MAS. This TCP ruling coincides with another determination that complicates Morales’ political future, a constitutional order, signed on November 1, that prevents the election of authorities for the third time.
