Evo Morales exposes conspiracy against nationalization

LA PAZ, August 24.— In a message to the nation, Bolivian President Evo Morales today accused the opposition parties of organizing a new conspiracy against the nationalization of hydrocarbon resources, which was decreed on May 1.

The leader used those terms to refer to the recourse of presenting a proposal for nullity before the Constitutional Court by the Social Democratic Power (Podemos) Party, the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement and the National Unity Party.

Morales mentioned parliamentary deputies Sandra Yánez, of Podemos; Gustavo Ugarte, of the MNR, and Gary Joaquín, of UN, as the promoters of that conspiracy, which aims to return the country to the times of privatization of oil companies.

He also accused their lawyers, Jorge Asbún and Bernardo Wayar (the latter a former deputy minister under the first government of ex-president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, charged here with genocide), of representing transnational corporations’ interests.