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(CNN Spanish) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico confirmed that it requested the Government of Bolivia “support to ensure security on the premises,” as Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric reported on Thursday. However, through a statement, the secretariat says that the operation of the Bolivian authorities "is out of proportion."
According to Longaric, Mexico's request to strengthen security at its embassy and residence in La Paz is one of the reasons why there is more police presence in the area. In previous days, the secretary of the Presidency of Bolivia said that the decision to increase the presence of police officers was taken because they received information that some social groups were preparing a march to the Mexican embassy to demand that Juan Ramón Quintana be handed over, a former official of the Government of Bolivia who remains isolated in the offices of Mexico in La Paz and against whom the Public Ministry of Bolivia issued an arrest warrant.
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CNN had access to the letters that the Mexican embassy sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia on November 19 and 29.
In the most recent letter, the Mexican embassy "reiterates to the Ministry its request for police reinforcements, and not intelligence, to adequately safeguard the integrity and guarantee the inviolability of diplomatic properties."
But in the statement issued on Thursday, the Mexican Foreign Ministry denounces that, "far from providing security for the operation, which includes real estate recording, it represents a threat and a violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations" and adds that different authorities Bolivians have expressed that one of the purposes of the operations is to detain asylum-seekers who have arrest warrants against them.
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In an interview on the Magazine of the Unitel Channel of Bolivia on Thursday, Colonel Julio Cordero Departmental Commander of the Bolivian police said that “what we are doing with the shelter is to be able to comply with the enforcement orders that have been been issued by the Public Ministry ”.