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In the background of the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Bolivia caused by the incident of the Mexican embassy in La Paz last Friday, the pact between the PSOE and United We have appeared, even before it has been definitively closed.

With the negotiations to form a coalition government still underway, the positions that Pablo Iglesias's party in foreign policy has defended in the past and, in particular, its close ties with the Bolivarian regimes in Latin America, an indigenous revolution of Evo Morales included, already affect the position of Spain abroad, as the incident has shown without clarifying La Paz.

The Transitional Government of Bolivia points directly to Pedro Sánchez and the need to "ingratiate himself" with his partners as a reason for the episode of the Mexican embassy, ​​as Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga , presidential delegate of the Bolivian Government, declares in an interview in EL WORLD.

The Spanish Government has categorically denied that the four Spanish police officers of the Special Operations Group ( GEO ) had the mission of rescuing one of the 10 senior officials of the Government of Evo Morales who are refugees in the residence of the Mexican ambassador in La Paz. What has not clarified are the details of the movement of the Spanish diplomat Cristina Borreguero in such a delicate place, pending the investigation that has been launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the appearance in Congress that the headline will make at the time of the acting portfolio, Margarita Robles.

The Bolivian government said Sunday that six officials from the Spanish embassy involved in the incidents left the country on Saturday, an end that the Spanish Ministry of Interior denied in a restrictive manner.

Two former ministers linked to Iglesias

In the accusations of the Bolivian Executive have appeared the names of former ministers Juan Ramón Quintana and Héctor Arce , prominent leaders of the stage of Evo Morales to whom the transitional Government of the country links with Podemos. Serious accusations when, precisely, in Bolivia various judicial investigations are carried out against the Evo Morales Administration.

Among them, the Neurona case stands out, an alleged corruption plot that has aroused expectation in the Andean country and that points to the Mexican company of the same name, a close collaborator of Podemos. Neurona Consulting has worked with different candidates of the Pablo Iglesias party.

A complaint by Senator Óscar Ortiz about the irregularities in Neurona Consulting contracts led to the performance of the State Comptroller General's Office , which has found evidence of criminal responsibility, so he filed a formal complaint with the Prosecutor's Office. The main defendant is Gisela López , former Minister of Communication, who fled the country to take refuge in Argentina with Morales. Bolivian authorities have requested Interpol to capture the former minister. At least twenty people are accused in this process.

The Government of the Socialism Movement ( MAS ) has enacted "supreme decrees" to award finger contracts "to friendly companies," Senator Ortiz said to EL MUNDO. The amount awarded to Neurona was close to 1.68 million euros. From the new Administration it is suggested that Neurona, who also collaborated in the MAS election campaign in 2014, is linked to the Mexican Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The company Neurona and the journalist César Hernández

In front of Neurona is the Mexican journalist César Hernández , a partner in political struggles of Juan Carlos Monedero, who has been credited with being one of the directors of the Mexican company, something he denies. Video production, communication strategy, tactics in social networks and documentaries are part of the menu that Neurona offered to its allies of the Bolivian Government and that have ended up incriminating it. Researchers have not found so far, in any case, any direct link with Podemos.

The purple formation, in any case, has not precisely hidden its sympathy for Evo Morales. On the same election night of last 10-N, Pablo Iglesias sent a message on social networks denouncing that in Bolivia there was a "coup d'etat" against Morales. "In the last 14 years Bolivia has improved all its social and economic indicators. All our support for the Bolivian people and Evo Morales," he wrote.

A day later, Josep Borrell, then still Foreign Minister, joined this line and criticized the "intervention" of the Bolivian Armed Forces after the punch in the elections.

The leaders of Podemos and Más País (Íñigo Errejón wrote his doctoral thesis on the indigenous revolutionary process) are not the only Spaniards close to Evo Morales, today exiled in Buenos Aires after resigning when the electoral fraud was made public in the general elections of the past 20 October. Former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has shown his support on several occasions.

Another Spanish leader related to Bolivia is the proetarra Katu Arkonada, a personal friend of Pablo Iglesias, who after collaborating with the Morales Government moved to Mexico to join the López Obrador project.

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