According to Biden, ‘world democracy is under threat.’ But the only threat to democratic peoples is US interventionism, which encourages coups, massacres and the plundering of natural resources,” the Movement for Socialism leader wrote in a tweet.
The first former Indigenous dignitary of the highland country added on this social network that the “#SummitofAmericas is failing and heralds the end of US hegemony”.
Morales commented on his Twitter account how the international press reported about “a worthy young man” who publicly denounced the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, for lying in this forum.
“He provoked the coup that massacred indigenous brothers for defending democracy. #MemoriaVerdadYJusticia,” concluded the former president, who was forced to resign on November 10, 2019 amid protests, kidnappings, humiliations and threats by coup leaders against ministers, lawmakers and their families.
This Thursday, activist Walter Smolarek, who rebuked the OAS Secretary-General for the deaths during the 2019 coup, described Almagro’s lies about an alleged fraud in the Andean-Amazon nation as “despicable”.
In an interview with state broadcaster Bolivia TV from Los Angeles, USA, the Temple University student and member of the Philadelphia section of the Socialism and Liberation Party called for justice to also reach those behind the overthrow of Morales.
“It’s not just those who pulled the triggers in the 2019 massacres in Bolivia that need to be brought to justice and convicted, but also the people who created the political conditions, the intellectual masterminds,” he said.
He denounces that many of these officials work in the State Department, in the Central Intelligence Agency, in the White House, “and these criminals have blood on their hands too.”
According to Smolarek, saying that the people who orchestrated the temporary destruction of democracy in Bolivia should be charged and punished for what happened is not political persecution.
Referring to Almagro, he called him a “totally horrible” figure because his lies were the basis of an international campaign against the South American country’s electoral process.
Smolarek blamed the OAS Secretary General for the murder of Argentine journalist Sebastián Moro who was “trying to tell the truth about what happened”.
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