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told reporters.
Lopez Obrador, who was
elected last year as Mexico’s
first declared leftist presi-
dent in a generation, has
sought cordial relations with
the Trump administration.
The decision to grant
asylum to Morales, Ebrard
said, was in line with Mexi-
co’s longtime practice of
providing refuge to political
dissidents — from Republi-
cans fleeing the Spanish Civ-
il War in the 1930s to Chileans
escaping the military gov-
ernment of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet during the 1970s
and 1980s.
Among the exiles who
have sought refuge in Mexi-
co were Fidel Castro, who ar-
rived here in 1955 after being
jailed in Cuba, and Leon
Trotsky, the Bolshevik revo-
lutionary leader.Special correspondents
Marcelo Tedesqui in La Paz
and Cecilia Sanchez in
Mexico City contributed to
this report.Tuesday following a circu-
itous route and a stop in Par-
aguay after several nations
— including Peru and Ecua-
dor — denied flyover or refu-
eling rights, Ebrard said.
Street protests and
clashes between Morales’
supporters and foes have
rocked Bolivia since Sunday.
His resignation, along
with those of his constitu-
tionally designated succes-
sors, left the Andean nation
of 11 million without a presi-
dent.
Among those accompa-
nying Morales to Mexico was
the former vice president,
Alvaro Garcia Linera, a
longtime confidant.
Before Morales arrived
here, Ebrard dismissed sug-
gestions that Mexico’s deci-
sion to grant asylum to Mor-
ales — a longtime critic of
U.S. “imperialism” — would
elevate tensions with the
United States.
“With the United States
there is no tension; there
may be differences,” EbrardMEXICO CITY — For-
mer Bolivian President Evo
Morales arrived Tuesday in
Mexico, where authorities
have granted him political
asylum, as an opposition
senator back in Bolivia de-
clared herself interim presi-
dent.
Emerging from a Mexi-
can air force jet in Mexico
City, Morales was met on the
tarmac by Foreign Secre-
tary Marcelo Ebrard, who
embraced the man who has
led Bolivia for almost 14
years.
Hours later in a meeting
of Bolivian legislators, no-
body from the Morales’ rul-
ing party was present to ob-
ject when Jeanine Añez pro-
moted herself to the head of
the Senate, a position that
she said put her in line to be
the country’s president,
since both Morales and his
vice president had resigned.
Añez, who said her pri-
ority was to call for new na-
tional elections, later
hoisted a Bible in the air at
the presidential residence in
the capital, La Paz, and ap-
peared on a balcony wearing
the presidential sash.
No legal quorum of law-
makers approved her move,
and she took no oath of of-
fice.
But the United States,
which has long opposed
Morales for his socialist poli-
cies, appeared to recognize
Añez as interim president.
U.S. authorities “look for-
ward to working” with Añez
and other leaders in Bolivia
“as they arrange free & fair
elections as soon as pos-
sible,” Michael G. Kozak,
acting assistant secretary
for the State Department’sBureau of Western Hemi-
sphere Affairs, tweeted
Tuesday evening.
Morales turned to Twit-
ter to decry Añez’s claim to
the presidency as “the most
devious and evil coup in his-
tory.”
Upon arriving in Mexico
earlier in the day, he thanked
Mexican President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador, say-
ing that Mexico had saved
his life after he received
death threats in Bolivia.
In a statement before re-
porters at the airport, Mor-
ales denounced violence in
his homeland and declared
that he would continue “the
fight” for equality in Bolivia.
“Thanks to Mexico, to its
authorities,” he said. “But I
also want to tell you that as
long as we are alive, we will
continue in politics.... And
we are sure that people have
the right to liberate them-
selves.”
Morales, who is Bolivia’s
first indigenous president,
has pledged to return to Bo-livia and declared that he
was the victim of a coup.
Ebrard, the Mexican for-
eign secretary, also charac-
terized Morales’ forced de-
parture as a coup.
Morales resigned Sunday
after the head of Bolivia’s
army requested that he step
down following weeks of pro-
tests over disputed national
elections on Oct. 20.
Morales, seeking his
fourth straight term, says he
won. But critics, who argue
that Morales had ambitions
to be president for life,
charged that the vote had
been rigged, and a team from
the Organization of Ameri-
can States found numerous
irregularities in the ballot-
ing.
The former president
dropped from public sight
for a day before a Mexican
military jet arrived in Bolivia
on Monday to take him to
Mexico.
Morales and an entou-
rage of political allies arrived
here shortly after 11 a.m.Morales foe declares herself interim leader
As Bolivia’s former
president arrives in
Mexico, senator says
she is in charge.
By Patrick J.
McDonnell
HANOI — A tiny deer-
like species not seen by sci-
entists for nearly 30 years
has been photographed in a
forest in southern Vietnam,
a conservation group said
Tuesday.
Images of the silver-
backed chevrotain, com-
monly called the Viet-
namese mouse deer, were
captured in the wild by trap
cameras, Global Wildlife
Conservation said.
It said the rabbit-sized
animal is not a deer or a
mouse, despite its nick-
name, but is the world’s
smallest hoofed mammal.
They are shy and solitary,
have two tiny fangs, appear
to walk on the tips of their
hooves and have a silver
sheen, the group said.
“For so long this species
has seemingly only existed
as part of our imagination.
Discovering that it is, in-
deed, still out there is the
first step in ensuring we
don’t lose it again, and we’re
moving quickly now to figure
out how best to protect it,”
said An Nguyen, a conserva-
tion scientist at Germany’s
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and
Wildlife Research, a partner
of GWC in the project.
The chevrotain was first
described in 1910 by four peo-
ple. A fifth sighting was re-
ported in 1990 in central Vi-
etnam, making it one of the
rarest animals in the world,
GWC said in a statement.
An and his team set up
camera traps after receiving
reports from local villagers
and forest rangers of the ani-
mals. The cameras took
about 1,800 photos of the
species over a period of five
months.
“The rediscovery of
the silver-backed chevrotain
provides big hope for
the conservation of biodi-
versity, especially threat-
ened species, in Vietnam,”
Hoang Minh Duc, head of Vi-
etnam’s Southern Institute
of Ecology’s Department of
Zoology, was quoted as say-
ing by GWC.
“This also encourages us,
together with relevant and
international partners, to
devote time and effort to fur-
ther investigation and con-
servation of Vietnam’s biodi-
versity heritage,” Duc said.
Wildlife in Vietnam face
many threats, including
poaching and habitat loss
due to urbanization.Rare mouse deer
seen in Vietnam
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THE SILVER-BACKEDchevrotain, or Vietnamese
mouse deer, is seen in an image captured in June 2018.
Global Wildlife ConservationCANBERRA, Australia
— Ferocious wildfires were
burning at emergency-level
intensity across Australia’s
most populous state and
into Sydney’s suburbs on
Tuesday as authorities
warned most people in the
paths of the blazes that
there was no longer time to
flee.New South Wales state is
under a weeklong state of
emergency, a declaration
that gives the Rural Fire
Service sweeping powers to
control resources and direct
other government agencies
in its efforts to battle fires.
The worst fires on Tuesday
emerged in the state’s north-
east, where three people
have died and more than 150
homes have been destroyed
since Friday.
A catastrophic fire warn-
ing was in place for Sydney,
Australia’s largest city, and a
large blaze threatened
homes on Tuesday after-
noon in northern suburban
Turramurra, 11 miles fromthe city’s downtown.
A firefighter suffered a
fractured arm and ribs be-
fore the fire was rapidly con-
tained with the aid of a jet
dumping fire retardant and
a helicopter dropping water,
officials said. Turramurra
residents reported trees
catching fire in their back-
yards from embers.
Rural Fire Service Com-
missioner Shane Fitzsim-
mons said many people had
heeded his warning and
evacuated their homes in
the danger zone well ahead
of the escalating fire threat
on Tuesday.
“We’ve got very tight,
winding roads into a lot of
these areas, which is why we
talked about leaving early as
the safest option,” Fitzsim-
mons told reporters.
“The last thing we want
to do is be managing mass
evacuations in pretty diffi-
cult to access areas and run-
ning the risk of having a
whole bunch of congested
roadways and seeing people
incinerated in their cars,” he
added.
Of 85 fires burning across
New South Wales, 14 were
rated as emergencies and
burning out of control by late
afternoon, the Rural Fire
Service said. That’s the larg-
est number across the state
in decades apart from Fri-
day, when an unprecedented
17 emergency fires blazed.
“It is too late to leave on
most of these fires, and shel-
tering is now your only op-
tion as fire approaches,”
Fitzsimmons said.
Kirby Ardis took that ad-
vice, driving her family from
their home in the small town
of Deepwater 26 miles to the
larger center of Glen Innes
about midday Tuesday.
“With the winds, the em-
bers are traveling many ki-
lometers, so it’s just not
worth it,” she said. “The gen-
eral consensus is that people
are just evacuating. Bettersafe than sorry.”
Alison Johnson said
she’d stay as long as she
could in the village of Nana
Glen to protect her business,
the Idle Inn Cafe, from em-
bers that can carry 19 miles
ahead of the fire front.
“If one ember lands on it,
it’ll go up,” Johnson said.
“When you look above the
paddock at the end of the
street, you can see the
smoke behind the tree line.”
“The trees are a muted
gray, shrouded in smoke.
The first sign of a fire front
and we’ll be out,” she added.
Winds were reaching
50 mph in some areas and
were expected to gather
pace as the day progressed.
There were reports of poten-
tial destruction of homes
south of the town of Taree,
near where a 63-year-old
woman died in her home on
Friday, Fitzsimmons said.
A “small number of prop-
erties” appeared to have
been destroyed or damaged
by late Tuesday, he said.
More than 600 schools
and technical colleges were
closed because they are
close to woodlands at risk of
fire.
The Australian fire sea-
son, which peaks during the
Southern Hemisphere sum-
mer, has started early after
an unusually warm and dry
winter.
More than 3,800 square
miles of forest and farmland
had already burned across
the state this fire season,
more than three times the
1,080 square miles that
burned all of last season.
The catastrophic fire
warning is a first for Sydney.
World Meteorological Or-
ganization spokeswoman
Clare Nullis told reporters in
Geneva that “catastrophic”
was the top of the danger
scale in Australia, and prob-
ably anywhere.
“The current fires are due
to a combination of factors,
including low soil moisture,
heat and, importantly, wind
direction and wind speed,”
she said.
She cited figures from the
Australian Bureau of Mete-
orology saying that New
South Wales had endured its
driest 34-month period on
record, and that Australia
overall has faced its second-
warmest January-to-Octo-
ber period based on records
dating back 110 years.RESIDENTS TRYto defend a property from a brush fire in Hillsville, Australia, about 200 miles north of
Sydney. Authorities warned most people in the fires’ paths to shelter in place, as it was too late to flee.Peter ParksAFP/Getty ImagesFires threaten Sydney’s suburbs
Those near Australia’s
largest city are at risk
amid warnings of
catastrophic blazes.
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