According to Bolivian President Evo Morales, the U.S. government is “the real threat to world security and peace”, because it had refused to ratify international human rights and environmental pacts, Newsweek reports.
At the handover of a building that housed the former United States Agency for International Development headquarters over to the Bolivian Armed Forces, Morales also described the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Venezuela as “new threats” and urged some countries in Europe to “not make the same mistake of punishing” the politically unstable country.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury placed sanctions Thursday on 10 additional Venezuelan officials it deemed complicit with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s attempts to undermine democracy, Newsweek writes. Morales criticized South American countries, including Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, for allowing and participating in U.S. armed forces’ week-long military exercise in the Brazilian Amazon that began on November 6.
“The armed forces that do joint exercises with the United States are deceiving their people,” Morales said, adding that he told his country’s military to “stay on the alert to defend the sovereignty of Bolivia and all of Latin America.”
Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Bolivia were suspended in 2008 after Morales accused a U.S. ambassador to Bolivia of masterminding opposition protests. In response, the United Nations expelled the Bolivian ambassador to the U.S., Newsweek adds.
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