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Bolivian press associations denounce threats against a cartoonist after cartoon about the attorney

Bolivian press associations asked for guarantees for the cartoonist Abel Bellido Córdova, who has received threats after the publication of a cartoon about the country’s attorney, Wilfredo Chávez, related to that entity’s recount of the 2019 electoral records.

Last week, the Attorney General of Bolivia carried out a review of the minutes of the failed elections of 2019, a process that did not have the presence of the opposition or the electoral body, which they claimed were not invited.

In the cartoon of the controversy, the prosecutor appears pulling a rabbit out of a hat that shows a message of “no fraud.”

The cartoonist, also known as Abecor, warned that he has received several death threats through social networks that he himself has denounced on his Twitter account. In one of the messages they say “your end is near, ready underground Abecor, you will not camouflage yourself without a mustache.”

The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) and the Association of Journalists of La Paz (APLP) rejected the threats against Bellido Córdova and denounced that these intimidations “violate their human and constitutional right to freedom of expression.”

In a joint statement, the unions demanded that the Government of Luis Arce protect the life and work of the graphic editorialist of the newspaper Página Siete and asked that an investigation be opened.

The ANPB and the APLP “reject cowardly threats against his life, which must be rigorously investigated by law. Without freedom of expression there is no democracy and it dies in the darkness of authoritarian passions ”, they affirmed in the note.

The call from the journalistic unions comes after the attorney Wilfredo Chávez himself published a message about the Abecor cartoon.

“My answer,” Chávez wrote in Twitter next to an image in which a roll of toilet paper appears on which one of the covers of the newspaper in which Abecor works is printed, a publication that was also shared on the account of the Attorney General of the State of Bolivia.

The Mission in Bolivia of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asked that “there be answers” ​​and that the integrity and work of Abecor be protected.

“Hate speech has no place in a democratic society and is an attack on freedom of the press and expression. The threats against #Abecor require clear responses that protect the work of journalists and promote free, independent and pluralistic media, “he said on his Twitter account.

The revision made by the Attorney General’s Office on the electoral records of the failed elections of 2019 has been the subject of debate in the country, since the Supreme Electoral Tribunal itself has indicated that by the principle of “preclusion” past acts “are no longer they review ”and subsequent analyzes“ have no effect ”other than that which“ the interested parties want to give it ”.

In the conclusions of the process, Attorney Chávez, who was a lawyer for former President Evo Morales, pointed out that “there was no electoral fraud in the 2019 elections and that Bolivia is not a fraudulent country.”

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