At the 52nd Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), Mamani pointed out that the global, structural and systematic crisis was more serious in this entity and directly questioned its Secretary General Luis Almagro.
He added that the international crisis stems from the great powers’ claim to adhere to unipolarity without resigning themselves to multipolarity, the only guarantee of justice between states, regardless of their economic and military power.
He pointed out that the situation is worse in the region, where the OAS is weakening more and more, opting for partial, petty and sectarian interests to which three countries no longer belong.
According to the Bolivian representative, the resignations are due to the fact that the OAS “undermines the elementary principles of equality between states by applying double standards, similar to the interests of capitalism and imperialism”.
“Without a doubt, it is the worst time for the OAS, in which it has even lost its forms, as the Secretary-General subjugates the states and is not at their service,” he said.
He urged Almagro to “end hypocrisy, selectivity, politicization and double standards that constitute practices harmful to international law.”
On the other hand, Mamani considered fundamental the understanding of governability and democracy so mistakenly used by the OAS to evaluate and disqualify governments, for which it uses observation missions to undermine the sovereignty of states.
He cited the case of the OAS scrutiny after the 2019 Bolivian elections being used to engineer a constitutional breach, citing the coup that brought right-wing Senator Jeanine Áñez to the presidency and grave human rights violations his country is seeking an international investigation .
The deputy minister also referred to his country’s geographic limitations that threaten its development and trade, he said, recalling that Bolivia was born with coasts, a reference to Chile’s conquest of them in the 19th century.
“We hope that the injustices will be remedied sooner rather than later and that dialogue and diplomacy can succeed in repairing the damage caused by a war driven by capitalist interests and thus build a better future between our brother peoples,” added he added.
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