Mexico City.- "After massacring 24 indigenous people, they now preparing for the State of Siege. It would be the confirmation that instead of respecting democracy, they installed a dictatorship," the Bolivian leader said via his Twitter account.

He also repudiated that the de facto government does not seek the pacification of the country and, instead, order the "defamation and repression" of those who demand respect for democracy.

When presenting his resignation, Evo Morales asked the opposition to cease the violence generated against the indigenous people and followers of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), a government party. However, since then the persecution and aggressions against him have increased.

Human rights defenders repudiate repression against peaceful demonstrations that demand the resignation of Senator Jeanine Áñez, self-proclaimed interim president. The marchers reject the coup d'etat and the grievances against the natives committed by the coup plotters, such as the burning of the wiphala, ancestral flag of the original peoples.

A little more than a week after the coup d'état was consummated, the demonstrations in Bolivia continue, while repression carried out by the military and police forces intensifies.

EVO MORALES SAYS DICTATORSHIP HAS RETURNED TO BOLIVIA

President Evo Morales speaks to teleSUR Spanish on November 16, 2019.   Photo: teleSUR

The constitutionally-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, told teleSUR over the weekend that a dictatorship has returned to the South American country, given the recent events that triggered intense repression exerted by the de-facto government chaired by Senator Jeanine Áñez.

"The Bolivian people and the whole world know that we guarantee political stability. They said 'Evo dictatorship' -- and now what Bolivia is experiencing is a real dictatorship." The Bolivian president said he was appalled by the recent reports regarding civilian deaths at the hands of this right-wing dictatorship.

"The people will always be united (...) The Bolivian people have never been taken from my memory. At any moment we will be, as always, sharing a resistance against economic policies, but for now, for democracy, for life, my dear Bolivia," President Morales said.

On the media censorship imposed by the de-facto government in Bolivia, Evo Morales said that "now there is no freedom of expression" in the country. "The de facto communications minister who answers to the dictatorship in Bolivia said that so-called seditious journalists, national and international, will be arrested."

He also highlighted how the integration processes promoted by past governments such as those of Venezuela, Ecuador (by former President Rafael Correa) or Brazil (with former president Lula da Silva) seek to be destroyed by the interests of the U.S. empire.

"Unfortunately, some countries subject to the U.S. empire, destroy the integration processes: Unasur a political instance, Mercosur an economic instance, Celag an integration of all Latin America towards the liberation of the peoples," President Morales continued.

In this sense, the legitimate President of Bolivia stressed that "we, Latin Americans, have the enormous responsibility, regardless of economic, programmatic or social liberation, to free ourselves from the technological part."

"Those who seek disintegration are not thinking about technological liberation, they are instruments of the capitalist system that will never like us to free ourselves from the technological part to establish sovereignty in our Latin America," he added. (RHC)

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