Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) said on Sunday that the US military deployment in the Caribbean, near Venezuela’s territorial waters, is a “clear provocation that threatens peace and stability” in the region.

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“Under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, an operation of interventionist nature is intended to justify that violates international law and undermines the sovereignty of Venezuela,” Morales published in his X account.

The former president said that “it is unacceptable” in the 21st century “to try to impose force and fear” on the “free peoples” of Latin America.

“No foreign power has the right to decide the fate of our nations: self-determination and peace must prevail over interference and war,” he said.

Morales assured that the Bolivian people, the Latin American and Caribbean people, “and the peoples of the world reject this very serious aggression”.

The Bolivian president, Luis Arce, condemned “strongly” on Wednesday the US military displacement in the Caribbean and called “infamy” the accusations of the government of Donald Trump against the administration of Nicolas Maduro.

“Linking the Bolivarian Revolution and brother president Nicolas Maduro with drug trafficking is one of the greatest infamies of the Trump administration in recent times, as well as the recurrent use of the fight against drugs as an instrument of imperialist intervention in countries that do not align with their geopolitical interests”, he said.

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