La Paz, August 19 (RHC)-- Bolivia's President Evo Morales says the U.S. President Donald Trump “cannot teach democracy and freedom to Latin America because he promotes the racism and xenophobia of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)”, a white supremacist, right-wing group created in the 19th century in the United States.

Evo Morales tweeted the message, emphasizing that "racial hatred and the walls of xenophobia belong to a slave and imperialist past that was defeated by the dignity of the people." His comments come a day after the KKK's former leader, David Duke, praised Trump for "telling the truth" about what happened last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Trump condemned "alt-left" for racist violence.

Last Saturday’s demonstration in the U.S. city left one person dead and 19 injured when a car deliberately drove through a crowd of protesters demonstrating against a march held by far-right groups in support of Confederate-era monuments. The Bolivian president reiterated his rejection of racism and all forms of discrimination, saying that they have been been major factors of “imperial domination.”