▲ Arrival of police and military to clear the blocked route in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, p. 24
Santa Cruz., The Bolivian police yesterday cleared an important highway that connects the country, in the fourth week of blockades organized by followers of former president Evo Morales, on hunger strike for four days.
Morales called for the support of international organizations and personalities in the framework of his conflict with the government of the president, Luis Arce, a former ally and Minister of Economy of the coca leader during most of his 14 years in government.
In an air and land operation, police and military cleared the old highway between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, the Bolivian Information Agency reported.
In Mairana [municipio de Santa Cruz] The operations plan has given excellent results, there has been no confrontationreported the Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo.
The mega-operation had the support of the drivers who were stranded in the region and the Mairan residents, who pointed out that followers of Morales arrived from the Tropics of Cochabamba and had them frightened and kidnapped in their own region.
Local media reported that the operation was carried out without resistance and without using tear gas.
Meanwhile, the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture of the Ombudsman’s Office denounced to the United Nations the repeated obstruction by the Bolivian State for their work in protecting the human rights of the 63 people detained on Friday, during the unlocking of Parotani.
On its website, the agency explains that its officials waited more than 12 hours to access those arrested. Once the obstacles were overcome, they ensured that they received food and channeled the delivery of personal effects; reported that only one person needed medical attention.
For a real political and economic dialogue, we need the support of international organizations and personalities.published by Evo Morales in X; In the same sense, militants of his party, the Movement towards Socialism, addressed a letter to Latin American presidents and leftist leaders. “We urge you to reflect on your silence […]. “Do not be fooled by the narratives manufactured by a government that seeks to divert attention from its failures,” he noted.
On Friday, Arce will celebrate four years of management championing boycottsstated the Vice Minister of Communication, Gabriela Alcón. We arrived with many issues and with many boycotts from different actors, especially Evism, which has been suffocating the economy for 22 days, harming the country for particular interests.said.
Morales’ supporters demand that his presidential candidacy be allowed in 2025, despite a constitutional disqualification, and to stop an investigation into human trafficking and statutory rape, for a relationship he had with a minor, with whom he had a daughter, when He was president. Then demands for solutions to the economic crisis were added.
Alcón reiterated the government’s willingness to dialogue on topics that correspond to the Executive levelnot in try to escape free from processes that [Morales] has to answer to justice.
