MADRID, April 14 (EUROPA-PRESSE) –
Former President of Bolivia and leader of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, Evo Morales, has asserted that the latest human rights report released by the United States aims to “destabilize” the Bolivian government.
“The United States, responsible for the world’s worst massacres, armed interventions and coups, has no morality to speak of human rights or justice. With her report, which defends the de facto government, she threatens the democracy regained by the people polls,” Morales said on his official Twitter profile.
He also accuses the report of being “reinforced by coup law” with the aim of becoming “the irrefutable truth”. “It seeks to sanctify the perpetrators of massacres of indigenous brothers in the de facto government,” he said.
“With its political and mendacious report, the United States speaks of ‘impunity’ in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia and Peru to blackmail their people. The world condemns the true impunity of a country that acts in the name of ‘freedom’ ‘promotes armed interventions and coups,'” he condemned.
The report, presented this week by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, focuses on the issue of indigenous peoples in one of its many points, emphasizing that “the policy has become a de facto mechanism for redistributing indigenous peoples’ lands to those who those loyal to them are the government”.
“Leaders of Indigenous communities in lowland Santa Cruz Department described growing anger and frustration with the national government over the continuation of a land policy developed under former President Evo Morales,” the report said.
In addition, the text says that indigenous peoples have “complained” about their poor representation in government. “These indigenous groups lived in three departments in the eastern lowlands of the country: Santa Cruz, Beni and Pando,” he adds.
Another issue addressed by the human rights report is the 2020 elections, which reported information about MAS’ intention to control the electoral authority, or harassment and political violence against other political representatives, including the Partido Bolivian candidate National Action, Juana Rojas Choque.
“Civil society groups and various political figures argued that the Ombudsman lacked independence from central government, in part because the vast majority of MAS in Congress allowed the nominee to be confirmed without significant debate,” the report continues.