Controversy with the recent visit of Leo Messi to Gabon

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has criticised the recent trip of Leo Messi to Gabon, that initially served to charitable reasons, ensuring that it treats of a way to back to the "cruel " and corrupt dictatorship" of said country. It defines the visit of Messi like "incoherent"

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As it informs the daily "ACE", from New York -where finds the headquarters of Human Rights Foundation- a NGO has condemned duramente the recent visit of Leo Messi to Gabon, where participated in an act in charitable theory planting the first stone of a building the past 17 July. The president of the NGO in question, Thor Halvorssen, has said the following: "Lionel Messi has damaged seriously the credibility of his own charitable foundation when putting to the service of the family Bongo and serve like instrument of public relations of this cruel and corrupt dictatorship".

Halvorssen, besides, has signalled that "it is perturbador and incoherent that Messi, the one who supports the rights of the boys and even funge like ambassador of the UNICEF, have loaned to feed the device propagandístico of a diet cleptocrático that rehúsa to investigate hideous crimes, between them, the ritual sacrifice of boys".

The president of HRF complements besides his words adding that the family Bongo "has exerted an absolute control on the society gabonesa and on the politics and economy of the country", until the point to having "plundered of systematic way his vast natural resources".

"The trip of Messi is part of a campaign of public relations of the family Bongo that has by aim promote the African Glass of Nations 2017. The tournament will carry out in Gabon with an enormous cost for the arks of the State, in spite of that the malversación of bottoms by part of the family Bongo has to 20% of the population living with less than 2 daily dollars".

The director of strategies of Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein, has added also to the criticisms to the visit of Messi. "If Messi really wants to help to the people of Gabon, HRF recommends that in place to go out of party with his opresores, pronounce formally in solidarity with the dissidents that are being pursued, and presione to the diet to investigate the ritual murders of boys".