In 2008, I began working with the Human Rights Foundation. One of the first missions I participated in was serving as an international observer at the autonomous referendum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Morales is not looked upon favorably in Santa Cruz. In private conversations with political leaders and public officials from the region, I found that Morales is viewed as a pawn of Chavez and the Castros, perceived as a cowardly traitor, and even as homosexual—a status that is greatly scorned in machista cultures. It’s no surprise that Morales has faced opposition from Human Rights Foundation-Bolivia. One of the organization’s members, Hugo Achá, apparently had meetings and phone conversations with one of the suspects killed in what was called a political assassination, Eduardo Rozsa Flores. The reaction was swift: the Morales government, along with a few apologists from the radical left, hastily accused the Human Rights Foundation of being involved in an international conspiracy against the Bolivian government. However, just like all tales spun by communism’s fanatics, this story would soon unravel.
Today, we know that this was all a fabrication by the Evo Morales government to eliminate its political opponents, during which three individuals were brutally killed while they slept. We also understand that the Evo Morales government paid bribes to an associate of Eduardo Rosza Flores (see video here). Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks confirm that Hugo Achá was actually investigating the Pando massacre, which was organized, funded, and coordinated by Juan Ramon Quintana, the Minister of the Presidency of Bolivia and right-hand man to Evo Morales, according to witnesses of the case.