Bolivian government spokesman questioned the role played by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in the 2019 coup d'état | Photo: @jorgerichterpolitologo

La Paz, March 20 (RHC)-- Bolivia's presidential spokesman, Jorge Richter, said Friday that the investigation and clarification of the violent events that took place in 2019 is a debt owed by the State to the victims.

According to what was reported by local television stations, Richter stressed that the term "political persecution," which has been reiterated by opposition sectors, seek to maintain impunity over the massacres committed and leave open the possibility for a new coup d'état.
  
"The concept of political persecution seeks that new possibilities of a coup d'état can continue to be implemented in Bolivia as a mechanism that they found important and learned to use to shorten the times of the constitutional sequence," he affirmed.

The Bolivian government spokesman questioned the role of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, and denounced that his statements were part of the first phase of the 2019 coup d'état, which removed former president Evo Morales from power, as reported by local media.
 
Richter called attention to the opposition's discourse of "political persecution" that seeks to ensure that no one is responsible for these events. He also mentioned other chapters such as the extension of Jeanine Áñez in the de facto government and the political instrumentalization of the coronavirus pandemic.