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The delegate to the international community of the interim Government of Bolivia, Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, has called on the acting president of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, to "assume his responsibility" for the incident of personnel of the Embassy of Spain in La Paz .

Quiroga told the media that he hopes the investigation of the incident will be carried out and that the Spanish Government does not say that it was "a slip" to have "four armed hooded men" accompanying the diplomatic personnel of Spain to the residence of the Mexican ambassador in Bolivia , María Teresa Mercado. "There was order, assume your responsibility, you as head of the Government of Spain," Quiroga demanded at a press conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.

The former president of Bolivia also said that Sánchez is "co-governing with Podemos", a party he called "academic agitators" who want to come to Bolivia to do "colonialism of criminal complicity."

"We can are the academic agitators, 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," he criticized.

Quiroga said that Pedro Sánchez and Unidos Podemos, a formation with which he reached a government pre-agreement, "must be scared to death" that all the information that Juan Ramón Quintana and Héctor Arce, former ministers of the Presidency and Justice respectively have come out in the management of Evo Morales.

"Now they are in the co-Government with Sánchez and now they are scared to death that from Bolivia and Venezuela the enormous amount of money stolen from our countries by these gentlemen in the name of constitutional colonialism will be revealed," he said. In addition, he warned the presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and of Spain that "they will not be able to Bolivia."

"We will remain firm in defense," added the former Bolivian president between 2001 and 2002.

Quiroga also said that Bolivia must turn to the Lima Group and the Organization of American States (OAS) to denounce this "conspiracy against the democratic reconstruction" of the country by Mexico and Spain. The delegate stressed that it is "sad" that this "conspiracy" has international allies, considering that if Bolivia "recovers its democracy", "it will be inevitable" that sooner or later it reaches Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

The former president described Sanchez as "another godfather of tyrants" as López Obrador. The Bolivian government accused the Spanish Embassy in La Paz last Friday of committing "outrages" to its sovereignty over the incident in which officials of that diplomatic delegation apparently went in "hooded" and "presumably armed" official vehicles.

Bolivia's interim chancellor, Karen Longaric, said they tried to "clandestinely" enter the residence of the Mexican ambassador in Bolivia, which houses about a dozen former Evo Morales authorities .

Four of these ex-authorities have arrest warrants, as the interim government of Jeanine Áñez accused them of various crimes such as terrorism, including former Minister Quintana.

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