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Dictatorships Must End, Evo Morales
La Paz - Military dictatorships are no
longer a solution for the problems of the continent,
Bolivian President Evo Morales has stated.
We have reached a point that we must govern
subordinating to the interests of the people. This
is what is being done in Bolivia and other parts of
Latin America, stated the Head of State during a
press conference after the arrival of Luis Arce
Gomez, former Interior minister of the Luis Garcia
Mesa de facto government (1980-1981).
Arce Gomez was extradited to Bolivia from the United
States to fulfill a 30 year sentence for crimes of
genocide.
He was immediately placed in the Chonchocoro maximum
security prison, where his cohort Garcia Mesa is
jailed accused of a bloody coup d'etat on July 17,
1980.
The repression they ordered included 93
assassination, 27 forced disappearances and at least
4,000 arrested.
Both the Bolivian people and the rest of Latin
America have to understand that these systems are no
longer viable and must end, said Morales in clear
rejection of the coup perpetrated by the military
against Honduras president, Manuel Zelaya.
Zelaya was kidnapped last June 28 and a de facto
government was installed, unleashing a brutal
repression against the people that demanded the
restitution of the constitutional president.
Morales recalled that periods of dictatorships in
Bolivia like that of Garcia Mesa did not respect
human rights or freedom of the press and shady
businesses were the rule. |
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