Bolivia’s Evo Morales wants to realize ideological RUNASUR project with Peru

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former far-left Bolivian President Evo Morales has presented an ideological project that promotes the anti-imperialist struggle and the redistribution of wealth.

“In a brief meeting with equally ‘brother’ President Castillo, we presented the project of a plurinational America of the peoples for the peoples, promoted by indigenous, social and intellectual movements from Runasur, which replaces America for the Americans,” Morales wrote on Twitter.

RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism, aims at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements, and workers of Latin America, as well as building a Plurinational America

On April 25, former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the birth of RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism aimed at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements, and workers of Latin America with an anti-imperialist ideology.

The organization will serve as the people’s alternative to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), an existing regional integration mechanism that has become paralyzed due to the withdrawal of the majority of members under right-wing governments. RUNASUR brings together grassroots organizations of 12 Latin American countries that originally constituted UNASUR.

Its central headquarters is located in Bolivia, and its main objective is to construct a Plurinational America.

Former Peruvian Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Ponce criticized Morales’ proposals, saying that his ideology “does not understand anything about what is really happening in the present and past of the region.”

“He is trying to copy the Bolivian model, the political expansion in southern Peru, which is why he is seeking such pluralization. This explains his interest in gas and his frequent visits to governors in the south, with whom he has established very negative relations. Morales makes these proposals because he considers himself a pioneer of 21st-century socialism and has seen that he can ideologically colonize Peru,” the diplomat said.

Bolivian journalist and political analyst Carlos Valverde of Santa Cruz dismissed Morales’ proposal, which stems from 21st-century socialism.