Evo met this Saturday with the MAS-IPSP senators and deputies of the Legislative Assembly. | Photo: Twitter @evoespueblo

La Paz, February 13 (RHC)-- The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, denounced this Saturday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is carrying out a destabilizing plan against the coca growers' movement and its leaders.

In a series of tweets on his official Twitter account, Evo Morales issued a warning to the Bolivian people and the international community about this plan by the DEA, together with its political and media agents operating in Bolivia.

"The DEA is executing a destabilizing plan of lies and hate speech against the coca growers' movement and its leaders.  Their plan is to lie to divide," wrote Evo Morales, after the U.S. offered up to five million dollars for information leading to the conviction of Maximiliano Dávila, former anti-drug chief of the government of the former Bolivian president. 

According to the former president "this political operation (of the DEA) follows the same "recipe" that the U.S. uses to justify coups and invade countries.  "To execute the Condor Plan, they accused popular governments of being "communist."  In order to plunder natural resources, they pointed to socialist presidents as being "terrorists," he stressed.

"In Bolivia, as the right wing has failed and demonstrated that it only serves to assault the State, steal and massacre.  The U.S. and its agencies (such as the DEA) try to discredit us politically in order to later eliminate us physically.  Our defense will always be with truth and honesty," said Evo Morales.

The Movement Towards Socialism/Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP) "is an anti-imperialist movement because it fights against U.S. interventionism that foments the coup," he wrote. 

"One of the ideological bases of our struggle is the defense of sovereignty.  The DEA is responsible for the massacres against sisters and brothers of the Tropics," stated the former head of state, victim of a coup in November 2019.

"To depend on the DEA is to submit Bolivia's sovereignty to U.S. interventionism.  To defend the DEA is to betray the struggle for freedom and dignity of our peoples.  Bolivia is a free and dignified country," he said.

From New York, the prosecutor of the Southern District Court of Manhattan, Damian Williams, and the DEA administrator, Anne Milgram, accused Maximiliano Dávila of "importing cocaine" to the United States and of "possession" of weapons.

"Those who attempt against our security and life forget that we come from the resistance of the humble and working people against the repressive system of neoliberalism that serves U.S. imperialism.  To lend oneself to the DEA conspiracy is to betray the struggle of the Bolivian people."