By Prensa Latina
La Paz : Bolivia will turn to the US Congress to demand greater control of the resources used by its Agency for International Development (USAID), accused of conspiring against the Bolivian government.
According to President Evo Morales, the Executive will have to assess first the request by coca growers of expelling USAID representatives from the El Chapare, Cochabamba.
Morales stated that some USAID officials are carrying out campaigns against his administration and the State’s new Political Constitution, which he expects not to be an institutional decision, he said.
“USAID is an economic instrument of the embassy: for sure, there are US citizens that wish to support the country, but their money is being used to conspire against Bolivia,” he asserted.
Members of the six federations of the Cochabamba Tropic had determined on Friday to expel USAID from El Chapare.
The emblematic guild also agreed to evict the Rural Patrolling Mobile Unit and begin a peaceful campaign for approval of the new Constitution in the referendum on May 4.