{"id":54494,"date":"2019-12-13T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54494"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:05:13","slug":"argentine-government-confirms-arrival-of-ex-bolivian-pres-evo-morales-as-a-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54494","title":{"rendered":"Argentine government confirms arrival of ex-Bolivian Pres Evo Morales as a &#8220;refugee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img2.chinadaily.com.cn\/images\/201912\/13\/5df2e79da310cf3e97ab6a78.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Bolivia&#8217;s ex-President Evo Morales&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Dec 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Bolivia&#8217;s ex-President Evo Morales arrived in Argentina on Thursday and will remain in the country under &#8220;refugee&#8221; status, said the Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He has just arrived, he has come to stay. He entered as an asylum seeker, but after entering, he will apply for refugee status,&#8221; Sola told local news channel TN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sola, Morales &#8220;feels better here&#8221; in Argentina as it is closer to Bolivia, and his children have been in Argentina for three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sola said that Morales was accompanied by his former vice president Alvaro Garcia Linera and some former cabinet members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentine Ministry of the Interior, headed by Eduardo de Pedro, must now finalize the details to confirm Morales&#8217;s refugee status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec 6, Morales traveled to Cuba from Mexico, where he first sought political asylum on Nov 12 after he resigned as president on Nov 10. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Dec 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Bolivia&#8217;s ex-President Evo Morales arrived in Argentina on Thursday and will remain in the country under &#8220;refugee&#8221; status, said the Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola. &#8220;He has just arrived, he has come to stay. He entered as an asylum seeker, but after entering, he will apply for refugee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}