Evo Morales denounces U.S. campaign against him and his political party

La Paz, May 22 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, has denounced a permanent defamatory campaign by the United States against him and the party he leads.

In an interview with Bolivia TV, the former president warned about a campaign of misrepresentations that the U.S. government has promoted with the support of certain national and foreign media to split the Movement Towards Socialism-Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP).

"These kinds of defamations, accusations, misrepresentations are permanent and not only from some media in Bolivia but also from abroad [...].  In other words, a permanent attack from the United States, that some media are playing this game [...] I imagine that they are trying to destroy the MAS-IPSP by destroying Evo," he said.

Evo Morales asserted that such attempts try to confuse the Bolivian people, create internal divisions and make MAS fail in its political and economic project that guarantees it to win elections permanently in the South American country.

The former president made it clear that these actions will not have the result expected by the enemies, since MAS-IPSP has the support of the social movements and shares a firm anti-imperialist policy.  In this regard, he said that MAS sees capitalism and imperialism as enemies of humanity and life: "This injustice, this inequality, unites us all," he said.

Evo Morales accused the U.S. of being behind the 2019 coup against him.  He also affirmed that the recent idea of the "dedazo" and "anti-evismo" in Bolivia, come from the North American empire and the Bolivian right wing.  He asserts that this is the new strategy of external and internal colonialism to weaken and divide the most important political movement in Bolivia, the MAS.

However, Evo Morales pointed out that both the Bolivian people and the other Latin American nations know how to strengthen themselves and will face, with unity, these plots and attempts of division hatched from the White House.