Bolivian President Evo Morales expressed solidarity with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro on Friday after being informed of the U.S.-backed coup attempt against the country's democratically-elected government. br br “We all have the obligation to enforce respect of democracy and elections, and if we all have a clear conscious, not even the empire can defeat us,” said Morales, hours after Maduro’s announcement that the coup attempt had been thwarted.