Stay out of local politics, diplomats told

[Judi Lynn]

Source: SP Times wires

Stay out of local politics, diplomats told
By Times Wires
Published August 28, 2007


La Paz, Bolivia

President Evo Morales warned Monday he would take "radical decisions" against foreign diplomats who become involved in Bolivian politics, a day after his vice president accused the United States of funding the conservative opposition. "I cannot understand how some ambassadors dedicate themselves to politics, and not diplomacy, in our country," Morales told a gathering of Bolivia's diplomatic corps in the capital of La Paz. "That is not called cooperation. That is called conspiracy." U.S. Embassy spokesman Eric Watnik denied the allegations Monday, saying "cooperation from the U.S. is apolitical."



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