The Bolivian Workers’ Central demands dialogue with the president // Screams, blows and pushes to define the presidency of the lower house
▲ Confrontation between deputies allied with President Luis Arce and former President Evo Morales, yesterday during the vote to define the presidency of the legislative body.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, p. 22
Holy Cross. As yesterday marked 23 days of blockades by allies of former Bolivian president Evo Morales, the authorities managed to restore circulation on another highway, bringing the total number of routes freed to six of the 20 that were taken, while the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) declared in emergency and in the fight against the destructive, radical, subversive and egotistical sectors that lost the horizon of the fightby demanding a dialogue with the Luis Arce administration and ruling it out with Morales and his followers. The former president called for a pause in the blockades to open the conversation.
The government announced yesterday that the supply of fuel to gas stations began and that it will gradually normalize throughout the country, after three weeks of long lines of drivers looking for diesel and gasoline in several cities.
Near the weekend we will begin to regularize the distribution of fuelstated the Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Alejandro Gallardo, after explaining that the authorities are working on the reopening of roads to allow a more fluid delivery.
The official attributed the shortage to an overdemand for gasoline and diesel, in addition to logistical problems in the transportation of hydrocarbons between the eastern and western regions, aggravated by the blockades.
He explained that a controlled supply at service stations, although he did not detail what this control plan consists of, and called on the population to buy fuel according to their needs.
However, the National Association of Private Hydrocarbon Suppliers and Marketers yesterday declared itself in a state of emergency Due to the lack of fuel, he regretted that the daily allocation of gasoline at each private pump has decreased from 35,000 to 10,000 liters and denounced that private stations receive lower volumes than those managed by the state-owned Yacimientos Petrolófilos Fiscales Bolivianos.
Discarded, talk to Evo Morales
Meanwhile, the leader of the COB, Juan Carlos Huarachi, urged a meeting with Arce and his ministers to respond to the situation in the country. The government must guarantee free movement on the country’s roads and identify the perpetrators of treason.maintains the COB. Huarachi rejected the dialogue requested by Morales. You can no longer talk to those who have carried out armed uprisings and the seizure of barracks in the Tropics of Cochabamba, he maintained.
Morales, 65 years old and on hunger strike for five days, asked his followers for a pause yesterday afternoon. and unblock roads, pending the national dialogue proposed by the governmentwhile proposed the release of the 63 detained by the police and the army in route liberation operations.
Losses of 2 billion dollars due to 23 days of closures
The 23 days of blockades caused economic losses of more than $2.1 billion, according to government data.
Morales’ followers demand that an investigation for trafficking and rape against the peasant leader be stopped for a relationship he had with a minor when he was president – with whom he had a daughter – that his candidacy for the Executive be allowed in the 2025 elections, despite of a constitutional disqualification and solution to the country’s economic issues.
At the close of this edition, the MAS-arcista deputy Omar Yujra declared himself president of the Chamber of Deputies for the 2024-2025 legislature, after a vote that was carried out amid shouts, pushing and blows between arcistas and evistas, reported Digital Compass.
During the session, the outgoing president, Israel Huaytari, called for a roll-call vote on the proposed lists when a group of legislators allied with Evo Morales arrived at the table where the board was to demand that the candidates they proposed be taken into account. which led to disputes and struggles with their Arcist peers during the voting process.
It was a conflictive session, but we hope to be able to manage a chamber that approves laws for the benefit of the population, and that allows the unity of the Bolivian peoplesaid Yujra.
