OUSTED Bolivian president Evo Morales vowed to “keep fighting” as he arrived in Argentina, where he has accepted political asylum.

Though the outgoing neoliberal government of Mauricio Macri supported the military coup that drove Mr Morales from office last month following his re-election, newly elected President Alberto Fernandez — who formally took office on Tuesday — has condemned the putsch.

New Argentinian Foreign Minister Felipe Sola said Mr Morales would feel happier closer to his own country than in Mexico, the government of which has been credited with saving his life by arranging his departure from Bolivia and granting him asylum. Far-right gangs had torched his home and attacked his supporters in La Paz after military chief Williams Kaliman ordered him from office.

Mr Sola said that the decision to offer asylum was made because “if we didn’t take care of him, he’d very quickly be afraid for his life.”

But Bolivia’s Foreign Minister Karen Longaric said she expected Buenos Aires to “comply with the international norms of political asylum.”

“We don’t want to see what happened in Mexico, where Morales had an open microphone and a stage,” she declared.

Since being invested by the army, the Jeanine Anez government in Bolivia has violently cracked down on democracy protests, killing scores of mostly indigenous Morales supporters.

It has also established a new “counter-terror” agency aimed at suppressing “narco-terrorists” it alleges ran the country during Mr Morales’s presidency from 2006-19. The former president himself has been charged with sedition and terrorism.