Lula and Chávez to support Morales in recall referendum
The presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and
Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, will arrive on Friday to Bolivia
to provide financial support to Evo Morales government, just
three weeks before the recall referendum, which would put the
legitimacy of Morales presidency into question.
Morales and Lula will sign a loan agreement in the Amazon town
of Reiberalta, 560 miles northeast from La Paz, by which Brazil
will lend USD 230 million to build a 310-mile road, Efe reported.
Chávez will join Lula and Morales to sign a commitment
to support the development and protection of the Amazon ecological
balance and to coordinate economic as well as technical cooperation.
Chávez and Lula will publicly support Morales, three
weeks before the Bolivian President, his Vice President, Álvaro
García Linera, and eight of nine governors (most of them
of opposition parties) will go into a recall referendum.
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