Bolivia: With the downfall of Evo Morales, Polisario loses another ally

The polisario leaders must feel cornered, completely isolated and crushed as their Algerian masters are fighting for their own survival while their international allies are falling and crumbling one after another.

The latest of these allies is Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia who fled on Tuesday to Mexico after stepping down under pressure from street protests and the military.

The populist Morales was forced to leave the country after weeks of popular protests against electoral fraud in the Oct. 20 presidential election and manipulation of the vote count in favor of the incumbent.

The Polisario chief Brahim Ghali had rushed to congratulate the ousted Bolivian president who claimed victory in a rigged election. With Evo Morales bowing out, Ghali has lost another friend in a region wherein several Latin American countries including Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Barbados …support Morocco’s territorial integrity and the UN-led exclusive political process for a lasting resolution of the Sahara issue.

The departure of the longstanding-leftist Morales is an opportunity for the Moroccan diplomacy to reach out to the upcoming Bolivian government to reverse the stand of this country on the Sahara issue as it was the case for Venezuela.

In his latest speech made on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the Green March, celebrated on Nov.6, King Mohammed VI said that more than 163 countries, the majority of UN member states, do not recognize “the fictitious entity”, referring to the self-proclaimed “SADR”, which is funded, armed and sheltered by the Algerian regime.

The growing international support for the Moroccanness of the Sahara has also been confirmed by the partnerships and agreements covering the Sahara, which have been signed by Morocco with influential powers and many sisterly countries, underlined the Monarch.