The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) warned in a statement that these “events follow patterns already known in the region,” characterized, it pointed out, by the instrumentalization of the judicial system for purposes of political persecution, in open violation of the rule of law, popular sovereignty, and democratic coexistence.

“These types of practices, associated with lawfare, have been used systematically to delegitimize, neutralize, and persecute popular political leaders and forces,” stated the Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc.

The Alliance denounced these actions as part of a strategy boosted by sectors of the Latin American far right, aimed at reversing social gains, dismantling sovereign projects, and undermining the will of the people through non-electoral mechanisms.

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