“I do not exclude there are also those who try to endanger our president because we have lived it, and we know how fascism works, those who do not respect democracy, the results of the elections, or what we do as a government,” Prada said.

The answer came in response to a question about the “hybrid war” against Bolivia, which the president denounced on Wednesday during his report to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP) on the third anniversary of his inauguration.

In his speech, Arce paraphrased assassinated and disappeared socialist leader Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz.

“We know that sooner or later there will be a price to pay for what we are doing; we are willing to pay that price, we have always been willing to; we will never shy away from danger, because more frightening than this enemy that is looking for a way to eliminate us, even physically, is a guilty conscience, and we could not stand ourselves if we did not comply with our duty,” the president said.

Respected as a martyr in today’s Bolivia, Quiroga Santa Cuz uttered these words in 1979 while defending the beginning of a trial of responsibility against dictator Hugo Banzer.

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