La Pau, Bolivia.
Bolivian military allegedly tried to shoot down the plane of the Mexican armyor who moved in 2019 to Evo Morales from Bolivia towards his refuge in Mexico, According to the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his latest book.
“During the initial ascent the pilot managed to observe, from the left side of the cockpit and when they almost arrived 1,500 cakes on the ground, a luminous trail similar to the characteristic of a rocket“, Details a report from the Secretary of National Defense published in the book “Halfway.”
According to this account, the Mexican pilot estimated that it was a “Projectile”, The launch point “could be located near the airport of Cochabamba (Bolivia)”, from where they had just taken off with Evo Morales on board.
Therefore, the aviator “He made a sharp turn to the opposite side of the trajectory of the projectile “ per “Avoid the impact.”
Evo Morales arrived in Mexico on November 12, 2019 as political asylum of Government of López Obrador after the political crisis that forced him to leave the presidency after a questionable OAS report denouncing electoral fraud in Bolivia.
In the balance sheet of his first half of office, López Obrador reveals that on Sunday 10 November 2019 he applied to the Chancellery alreadyl Army remove a Morales of Bolivia in the face of “violence and racism of the coup plotters “.
The plane of the Navy forceses, a Gulfstream 550, had four members, among them the military pilot Miguel Eduardo Hernández and the representative of the Chancellery Froylán Gámez, who faced problems as much to arrive as pairto leave Bolivia.
Mexico received authorization from Peru to cross its airspace in the direction of Bolivia, so the plane flew over for six hours the international waters of the Pacific until landing on Monday morning a Lima.
About three hours later he took off for the border of Bolivia, But the Bolivian authorities denied him access to his AERE spaceor, so that, “in the face of the possibility of being intercepted by a fighter aircraft “, They returned to the Peruvian capital.
In the afternoon they finally received permission to fly to the Chimore Airport, in Cochabamba (Bolivia), where on landing they found “an abundant presence of personnel armed military and civilian “.
There they picked up a Evo Morales, to former Vice President Álvaro García Linera, and former Minister of Health Gabriela Montaño, but the control tower he did not give them permission to take off.
Subsequently, alleged Bolivian military attemptsn access the aircraftei they hit with their weapons in the Mexican pilotor, that he had gotten off the plane looking for a signal to communicate with Mexico.
After persuading for several minutes, the pilot managed to get him in touch with Bolivian General Jorge Tercers Lara, who gave him 30 minutes for the plane to Evo on board left Bolivia.
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“Emphasizing that he would not answer for the security of the occupants or for the integrity of the aircraft if this instruction is not complied with, ”the report states.
After takeoff, the episode of the alleged rocket, Which “could have come from the RPG launcher that noticeor in the airport “.
By the return, Peru no longer let land the Mexican airplane to refuel, so it did to Asuncio’n (Paraguay); then flew over Brazil and Peru, but Ecuador forbade him the passage, so he had to surround the country to finally arrive in Mexico.
“Evo said we had saved his life; I thought it was just a gesture of gratitude for our solidarityBut when the Secretary of Defense handed me the report I fell into the account of the great risk that had been corrected “, reflects the president in the book. EFE