Our position is clear, we want to denounce the continuous interference of external states and powers that put world peace at risk’, he assured.

Mercado warned that these actors violate the United Nations Charter and act according to their own interests, to the point of promoting the overthrow of constitutional governments.

Recently, the head of the US Southern Command, four-star general, Laura Richardson, expressed that China ‘expands its influence’ in Latin America and the Caribbean and ‘manipulates’ its governments through ‘predatory investment practices’, in allusion to a very favorable agreement for Bolivia with a company of that Asian nation.

Speaking at the second conference of the Parliamentary Network of the Non-Aligned Movement in Manama, Bahrain, Mercado insisted on the threatening attitude of some world powers against the so-called lithium triangle -Argentina, Bolivia and Chile- and Bolivian fresh water.

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