Peace. The governments of Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and Honduras expressed their solidarity with former Bolivian president Evo Morales (2006-2019), who denounced that State agents tried to assassinate him this Sunday.
“All my solidarity with Evo, fascism is ascending throughout Latin America. It is no longer just the legal elimination, now they move on to what always happens: the physical elimination,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
The Colombian president referred to the complaint that Morales made earlier, when he said that they tried to kill him in the coca-growing region of Chapare, his political stronghold.
Petro did not allude to the participation of “agents of the State” as perpetrators of the incident, as stated by Morales, who is fighting an all-out fight against his former minister and current president Luis Arce for the presidential candidacy in 2025.
The Venezuelan government, in a statement broadcast on Telegram, expressed its “repudiation of the attack perpetrated against former President Evo Morales.”
“This abhorrent act constitutes an act of fascist violence that seeks to inoculate violence and political hatred in Bolivian society,” he added.
“We reject the assassination attempt on brother Evo Morales, former president of Bolivia, a cowardly attack on peace and stability,” the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, wrote on the X network.
The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, also echoed what happened in Bolivia. “I condemn the violent attack perpetrated against the former president,” Morales said, and considered it “urgent to take measures to guarantee his safety.”
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, indicated in X that “violence has no place or justification in politics or by extension in our societies.”
Morales has directly accused Bolivian “agents of the State” of having tried to shoot him dead while he was traveling in his truck in the Chapare region.
The former president, who lives practically in isolation in that region, is being investigated for alleged crimes of rape, human trafficking and smuggling.
Morales maintains that the government of his former ally Arce, who was his Economy Minister, is persecuting him politically and legally.
Both are fighting for the official candidacy for the 2025 elections, although only Morales has so far expressed his willingness to run for the presidency again.
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