Bolivia accuses Spain of "criminal colonialism"

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Spain has accidentally burst into the diplomatic crisis facing the provisional administration of Bolivia and Mexico . And it has done so with so much noise that the government of Pedro Sánchez has no choice but to open an investigation and send an Andean country mission headed by an official of the General Inspection of Services to clarify what happened last Friday in the Residence of the Mexican Ambassador in La Paz .

The incident occupies the main informative spaces in Bolivia, whose government has accused the Spanish diplomats of "running over sovereignty and abuse of privileges", relying on the presence of "armed and masked" men who represented a "potential threat". The administration of Jeanine Áñez has invoked the Vienna Convention , which according to her particular reading would prevent the presence of armed escorts beyond the Spanish Embassy itself.

From the media close to the Bolivian Government, it was first reported that the Spaniards sought to facilitate the escape of a former minister of Evo Morales, a refugee inside the Mexican diplomatic residence, strongly denied by Madrid . Jorge Tuto Quiroga, international delegate of the Bolivian Government, charged expressly against Sánchez, whom he described as "another godfather of tyrants," along with Mexican Andres Manuel López Obrador. "He is co-governing with Podemos, who are now villa bourgeois in Spain , who are those who made constitutional colonialism and now want to come to do colonialism with criminal complicity," said former President Quiroga. "They will not be able to with Bolivia," he said.

The incident has also led to the Popular Party demanding the appearance in Congress of Margarita Robles, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, to explain "what is the diplomatic corps . " Vox has joined the request. In its informative note, Foreign has announced that the minister will appear "when the investigation has been completed."

In turn, the former president's allies exaggerated the facts to increase the tension between the two governments , whose confrontation began with the exile of the former indigenous president in Mexico and has continued until yesterday with the refuge granted to his main collaborators. The Spanish diplomats were never attacked, according to political sources confirmed to EL MUNDO.

The tension that Bolivia and Mexico already lived in was only missing one more ingredient, contributed by the two Spanish diplomats who went to the residence of Ambassador María Teresa Mercado protected by four police officers of the Special Operations Group (GEO). In the absence of the ambassador, the security protocol forces Cristina Borreguero, number two of the embassy and charge of Business, to be escorted .

In the Mexican residence, 10 former senior officials of the indigenous revolution remain isolated, including four who have arrest warrants against them: the powerful former Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana; the former Minister of Culture, Wilma Alanoca; the former governor of Oruro, Víctor Hugo Vásquez, and the official Nicolás Laguna.

The events were triggered after the "courtesy visit", as defined by the Spanish Government, carried out by Borreguero and the consul Álvaro Fernández. The two vehicles of the Spanish convoy returned to pick up both of them to diplomatic facilities , which are inside a residential complex, but local police prevented their entry. The presence of television cameras and neighbors recording with their cell phones caused agents to cover their faces.

There began a small rifirrafe and the insults of a couple of exalted, but at the same time inside the Embassy nerves were unleashed. Ambassador Mercado used her social networks to spread a confusing message in which she claimed that she had been assaulted , used by Morales' allies to press through the networks.

Spanish policemen can carry previously declared weapons when they are admitted to the country, they even have the capacity to intervene. Escort functions are common in violent and conflictive countries. The Government of Madrid has flatly denied that there was an escape operation of the Evo collaborator and nothing presupposes that something like this would happen.

Spain has stood out during the Bolivian crisis as a mediator between the parties to the conflict, as has the European Union.

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• Bolivia
• Spain
• Mexico
• Evo Morales
• Pedro Sanchez

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