Former Bolivian president Evo Morales has criticised newly-elected mayor of El Alto, Eva Copa Murga, for meeting right-wing coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho in Tarija, a spokesperson from the Bartolina Sisa Resistance movement in the UK said in a statement.
"A traitor is the one who flees..." Copa said in a recent statement cited by the spokeswoman.
El Alto residents have also voiced concerns over the meeting between opposition leaders, who have "persecuted, tortured and murdered" indigenous people and called them "human beasts, savages" and others amid the coup.
"Companero Evo was forced to leave the country because his life was in danger, there were express orders to eliminate him and this can be confirmed by those who gave him protection," the spokeswoman said in the statement.
Eva Copa had criticised Morales and other Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) members for fleeing the country despite international law protecting asylum seekers and refugees from political persecution, she added.
Copa also opposed the release of seven former MAS-IPSP members exiled at the Mexican Embassy in La Paz, she added.
The statement added that Copa was "instrumental to the dictatorship" and acknowledged the Jeanine Anez coup government as a 'constitutional government of transition' for over a year.
Colque noted former Communications minister Lizarraga confirmed Copa had worked directly with former Minister of Government Arturo Murillo.
Former President of the Chamber of Deputies, Dr Victor Borda repeatedly and sharply stated Copa had refused to back Bolivia's low-income population amid the coup.
"Eva Copa did nothing for the fallen of Sacaba and Senkata and on the contrary, the day the report was due to be presented, Eva Copa wanted to suspend the session and refused to allow the relatives of the victims to hear the report," Borda, member of the Investigative Commission of the Sacaba and Senkata Massacres said in a statement.
She also passed measures to remove nominated MPs in PARLASUR and the Andean Parliament, among others, "leaving the country defenceless with no international representation" to condemn human rights violations, corruption and others, the statement said, adding Copa had also failed to summon Murillo and others for a parliamentary inquiry.
"No wonder she called the victims of Senkata ‘vandals’ and being a Senator for the city of El Alto herself, she was absent when they needed her most. Of course, she never wanted to acknowledge that there was a coup either and is a pity that Jeanine Anez and her ministers have not been prosecuted when Eva Copa was the Senate President," Colque said.
She also alleged Copa joined the right wing Jallalla group after failing to be elected as a MAS candidate in regional elections this year. Jallalla shared power with other coup plotters and wanted to revoke the legal status of MAS-IPSP, she noted.
"Evo deserves all our respect, support and recognition because this is a man who brought dignity to the forgotten and put an stop to imperialism sending back to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)," she concluded.
