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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 15, 2024, p. 27
La Paz., The Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) of Bolivia yesterday ignored the leadership of former president Evo Morales at the head of the ruling party Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), which represents a new setback in the search to be a candidate for the elections of 2025, and recognizes Grover García, close to the current president Luis Arce, as president of the formation, reported the newspaper Brújula Digital.
All acts of execution are considered valid, including the Ordinary National Congress of the MAS-IPSP, held in El Alto, department of La Paz, from May 3 to 5, 2024, convened by the founding organizations now acting, as well as the determinations assumed in that actnoted the TCP resolution.
In this way, the dispute between the group in favor of the coca leader, which defended the Lauca Ñ congress of 2023, in the department of Cochabamba, where Morales was re-elected party leader, as well as a candidate, and the sector of the President Luis Arce, who promoted the El Alto congress and the renewal of the movement’s leadership.
Given this sentence, a group related to Arce celebrated with songs in the common plaza of the government palace and Congress.
In the same logic of the legal war applied in Ecuador, the government of Luis Arce deals a blow to the revolution and the process of change, pressuring the constitutional chamber IV to hand over the acronym of the MAS-IPSP through an unconstitutional sentence , illegal and illegitimatedeclared Evo Morales in his profile on the social network X.
Due to this ruling, with page 0776/2024 of the TCP, the former MAS leader also protested: How can a court ruling end up settling something that corresponds to the democratic decision of the militants of the political force.
Meanwhile, the police of the Andean country arrested several Evista leaders after accusing them of terrorism for organizing the blockades that paralyzed various roads for almost a month.
The detainees are Humberto Claros and Ramiro Cucho, who led the road obstructions that from the department of Cochabamba, Morales’ stronghold, paralyzed access to the east and west of Bolivia, leading to clashes with public security authorities and even the taking of hostages and of military regiments.
Claros, leader of a peasant union, and Cucho, head of an organization of indigenous peoples, were also accused of armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the State, trafficking and illicit possession of weapons, association to commit a crime and kidnapping, for cite some of the criminal charges.
In another of the six searches that were carried out the night before in Sopocachi and San Pedro de Sorata, both in La Paz; Potosí and Santa Cruz, and in the same case of the road blockades, agents searched the home of former presidential minister Juan Ramón Quintana, and found two boxes of documentation, as well as a hard drive, local media reported.
For his part, the Vice Minister of the Interior, Jhonny Aguilera, confirmed that Quintana’s whereabouts are unknown, and they do not have information about his possible departure from the country, so the investigation into his whereabouts continues in Bolivian territory.