The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba), led by three dictatorships (Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua), announced this Friday (24) the suspension of the new government of Bolivia, alleging “pro-imperialist and colonialist” conduct.
Senator Rodrigo Paz, from the center-right Christian Democratic Party (PDC), won the second round of the presidential election on Sunday (19) and will take office in November, which will put an end to almost 20 uninterrupted years of government by the Movement to Socialism (MAS), an ally of the dictatorships of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In a statement released by state broadcaster VTV, Alba considered the statements made by what it called an “extreme right” government against the three regimes “unacceptable”.
“This suspension does not affect the permanent, affectionate and supportive ties we maintain with the Bolivian people, with whom we will continue to work and support their development and well-being,” the alliance stated.
After his victory in the election, Paz said, in an interview with CNN, that he will not invite dictators Nicolás Maduro, Miguel Díaz-Canel and Daniel Ortega to his inauguration because “they are not democratic”.
“We are a democratic country. Although diplomatic relations must be respected, because there are preconditions, our condition for relations is based on democracy”, stated the president-elect.
Alba is made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia.
In 2019, after Jeanine Áñez temporarily assumed the presidency of Bolivia, the La Paz government withdrew from the alliance, which, in turn, did not recognize the new Bolivian management. However, Bolivia returned to Alba in 2020, when MAS’s Luis Arce won that year’s presidential election.
