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Bolivian president: US, Israel 'practicing genocide' in Gaza

Friday, 26 September 2025 7:11 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 26 September 2025 9:54 AM ]

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 25, 2025. (Photo by Getty Images)

Bolivian President Luis Arce has condemned the US and the Israeli regime for causing pain and death globally and "practicing genocide" in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Arce identified the US and Israel as warmongering entities with an "obsessive desire" to cause pain and death around the world.

"The threat of death also runs through the Middle East," Arce said, referring to the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, with the participation of Israel and the US, "which want to accelerate the displacement of the Palestinian people in the shortest possible time."

The onslaught on the besieged strip has so far killed at least 65,419 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

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The Bolivian head of state also decried Washington’s latest provocations against Venezuela, asserting that the "threat of death stalks Latin America and the Caribbean."

Arce said the US Southern Command has mobilized in the region with "war potential," including missiles, planes, helicopters, and submarines.

He rejected the US’s approach to "fight drug trafficking and organized crime," as phony, saying, "if it were true, it would begin to confront both of these issues in its own country."

He argued that the deployment is actually a pretext to carry out an "intervention in Venezuela ... which possesses extremely important natural resources, especially oil," through “militarization and colonialist tactics.”

Arce said that the world continues to bear the consequences of wars, blockades, and unilaterally imposed sanctions, which contradict the chief principles upon which the UN is founded.

The Bolivian president cited the economic blockade against Cuba as an example, saying the blockade stemmed from "imperialism's rejection of the region's first socialist revolution," which led to the millions in losses caused by the six-decade-long unilateral action by the US government.

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