Fernando Rojas, get your butt back to Lima
In most undiplomatic language, the Peruvian foreign minister called Morales a "liar."
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Lima, 15 jun (ABI).- Perú llamó el lunes a consultas a su embajador en Bolivia, Fernando Rojas, después de las declaraciones del presidente Evo Morales, que el gobierno peruano consideró ofensivas y de injerencia, informaron fuentes oficiales.
Rojas fue llamado a Lima como un gesto de rechazo a las declaraciones del mandatario boliviano que el pasado sábado calificó de genocidio del Tratado de Libre Comercio con Estados Unidos las muertes de campesinos peruanos en la región amazónica de Bagua.
El Canciller peruano, José Antonio García Belaunde, dijo que el gobierno de su país tomó la decisión de llamar a su embajador en Bolivia como una "manifestación de desagravio por las constantes intromisiones del gobierno de Bolivia" en los asuntos internos de Perú.
García Belaunde informó que el embajador Rojas llegará mañana a Lima y que aún no se decide la fecha de su retorno a La Paz.
En una entrevista concedida al diario Expreso, el Canciller peruano calificó de "mentiroso" a Morales porque, a su juicio, afirmó sin pruebas que se produjo un genocidio en la selva peruana y había anticipado que llamaría a consultas a su embajador en La Paz.
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Fyi it looks like Alan Garcia will lose his prime minister. He would be the second cabinet minister to resign over the Bagua massacre.
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LIMA (AFP) — Peru's Prime Minister Yehude Simon said Tuesday he will resign in the coming weeks once a crisis over Indian rights in the Amazon has been settled and calm returns.
"I will leave as soon as everything has been calmed down, which should be in the coming weeks," he told the privately owned Lima radio station RPP.
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The opposition, the Peruvian press, as well as the main Indian collective had demanded Simon's resignation, but he had said he would not leave under pressure.
But on Monday, he raised the possibility he might step down, saying he would have no problem doing so once the crisis with the Indians was resolved.
He appeared to have been shaken by the deaths of police officers and Indians in the violence ten days ago, saying their deaths would stay with him "until death."
Simon, 61, a leftist who describes himself as a "humanist," was named prime minister in October 2008 to give a "social face" to president Alan Garcia's liberal economic policies.
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