US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered officials involved in Bolivia’s last election to “step aside” in the next contest, and pledged “support” for the post-coup government empowered after the ouster of Evo Morales.
Hailing Bolivia’s “political transition” as “important … to democracy in our hemisphere,” Pompeo insisted in a statement on Thursday that former President Morales and other officials who took part in October’s vote stay away from the upcoming ballot for the sake of a “free, fair and transparent election.”
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