Mexico's foreign minister said that the Bolivian military had attempted a coup when it broke the constitution, putting pressure on President Morales to resign.

"It was a coup because the military requested the president to resign, which is also an act of violating Bolivia's constitutional order," Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said yesterday at a press conference in Mexico City.

The announcement came shortly after Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation under pressure from protests that lasted for weeks, as did the military and police that no longer supported him. Morales today boarded a plane to Mexico after being granted asylum by the country.

"Mexico will not accept a military government in Bolivia. Events in this country are a step backward for the whole region," Foreign Minister Ebrard said, saying Mexico would continue to see Morales as the legal president of the country. Bolivia until his term ended in January 2020.

Mexican President Lopez Obrador concurred with Secretary of State Ebrard, praising Morales for resigning instead of putting people's lives in danger, and calling the departure of the former Bolivian president a "coup".

Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006. He was elected for a fourth consecutive term in elections in October after the constitutional court decided to lift the presidential term limit. Opposition accused of fraud in election results, calling for the organization to vote again.