The United States expressed this Thursday its rejection of “any attempt” to “overthrow” the government of Bolivia’s president, Rodrigo Paz, and announced that it will intensify its emergency aid and support for logistical operations in the Andean country, to help the population most affected by the blockade that has been affecting its territory for weeks.
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“The Department of War and the Coalition Against Cartels of the Americas (A3C) reject any attempt to overthrow the legitimate Government of President Paz in Bolivia,” said the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, in a message published on social media.
In this, Hegseth assured that the U.S. “is attentive” and reaffirmed the importance that La Paz not allow “the old ‘status quo’ of narcoterrorist dominance in the region to be repeated”, while stating that Washington will continue to support A3C partners, such as Bolivia, in order to “guarantee” the deterrence of “narcoterrorists” from “profiting from the death and destruction” of the hemisphere.
Similarly, according to State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott, the head of the portfolio, Marco Rubio, held a telephone conversation this Thursday with the head of the Bolivian Executive to “reaffirm the unwavering commitment” of the White House to “support the democracy” of the Andean country and “the government of Paz in its work of rebuilding the country after twenty years of failed socialist policies.”
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In said dialogue, the leader of U.S. diplomacy indicated, according to his spokesman’s words, that he is “intensifying emergency aid” and “support for logistical operations” to Bolivia in order to “help those facing severe shortages of food and medicine due to illegal road blockades” which, he considered, are “intended to destabilize Bolivian society.”
This Wednesday, Paz himself referred to the protests that have been shaking the country for weeks as “the battle of battles,” linking them to drug trafficking groups whom he accuses of “feeding mobilizations and actions against the Constitution.”
“This is the battle of all battles. Either we transform the homeland towards an institutionalized destiny, without corruption and with drug trafficking cornered, or a past where anything goes returns”, he warned.
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