THE Mexican government has made plans to file a complaint at the International Court of Justice against Bolivia’s military-installed regime.

Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on Boxing Day that a build-up of Bolivian security agents around the Mexican ambassador’s La Paz residence violates international treaties on the rights of diplomatic personnel and installations.

Mr Ebrard said Bolivia’s coup government, which overthrew president Evo Morales last month, appears to be threatening Mexico’s right to give asylum to nine former government officials — and that Bolivia was refusing to allow them to leave the country.

Drones were also being flown over the residence, he said. He plans to take it all the way to The Hague. 

But Bolivia’s interim Foreign Minister, Karen Longaric, said the Mexican ambassador had asked for the extra security to protect the embassy from hostile crowds.

Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo accused the Mexican government of violating international law by “allowing Morales to break the rules and say whatever he wants” from exile.

Plaza de Mayo Mothers founder Hebe de Bonafini announced that Mr Morales had been invited to join their weekly march in Buenos Aires, Argentina as it would show “he is not alone.”

Plaza de Mayo is among groups that have written to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking it to investigate the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that followed the Bolivian coup, which saw scores of mostly indigenous Morales supporters killed.

She said the Puebla Group — a regional grouping of left political leaders inaugurated by Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez last month — “condemns the political persecution carried out by the [Jeanine] Anez dictatorship in Argentina” and added: “It is not a constitutional government. It is a US-imposed dictatorship.”