Mexico said Monday it has granted asylum to Bolivia’s recently resigned president Evo Morales, after the leftist leader’s departure left the South American nation reeling amid a power vacuum.
“Several minutes ago I received a phone call from (former) president Evo Morales to verbally and formally request political asylum in our country,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told a news conference. “Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero made the decision to grant him asylum.”
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