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Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), speaks on “The role and responsibility of governments in supporting media integrity” at the Media Summit of the Americas at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Los Angeles on June 7, 2022. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) A ​​young man interrupted OAS Secretary Luis Almagro, during an event held this Tuesday within the framework of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. “Luis Almagro, you have blood on your hands, because of your lies there was a coup against a democratically elected government in Bolivia and that dictatorship that you helped install massacred 36 people, 36 innocent people,” the man shouted from the audience. referring to the deaths of protesters during the political crisis in Bolivia in 2019. Almagro immediately responded forcefully, warning of the falsehood of his accusations. The young man was removed from the room by security personnel. Almagro defended the mission of the OAS observers in the 2019 elections, adding: “This type of lies, of course, is not the correct approach, this is not the correct way.” The technical mission of the OAS was the one that reported alleged fraud in the counting of the presidential election, after which a political crisis was triggered that included the resignation of Evo Morales from the presidency and the assumption of Jeanine Áñez as interim president. Bolivia was the scene at that time of violent incidents in which “at least 37 people lost their lives,” according to a report published in August 2021 by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. . The spirited exchange occurred during a talk in which Almagro announced the launch of the Center for Media Integrity of the Americas to promote high-quality journalism. Authorities did not identify the man who interrupted the conference. CNN is trying to determine his status.