October 24, 2024, 10:48 PM
October 24, 2024, 10:48 PM
After holding a evaluation meeting of the 11 days of blockade in Cochabamba Former President Evo Morales sent two messages through his X account; In one of them he warns that there is a police operation ready to intervene in the blockade in Cochabamba, where a thousand police officers would participate.
“We denounce the Bolivian people and the international community that more than 1,000 police officers are being transferred by air and land to the city of Cochabamba. These police officers have the order to violently intervene in the legitimate social protest in the face of the economic crisis,” wrote Morales in his account, who has already stopped mentioning that the main condition for lifting the blockade is the annulment of the judicial processes against him.
This Thursday marked the 11th day of the blockade in Cochabamba, mainly in the tropics of that department, where Morales’ influence is radical. While discontent against the Government and against Evo Morales grows in the country, since citizens believe that the Government does nothing to solve the problem and Morales is determined to isolate the country.
A hearing will be held on Friday in the city of Tarija, in which It will be defined whether the judicial process for human trafficking against Morales She continues in that capital or is transferred to the tropics of Cochabamba, as is the request of Morales and her lawyers.
“Public workers committed to democracy and the defense of the process inform us that today, at a meeting of ministers, They decided to violently intervene at the protest points. They have even had doctors and ambulances aware that people’s lives could be put at risk,” says the other message published by the former president.
Since the conflict began Morales took shelter on his property in Villa Tunari and only went out to the town of Sacaba on October 12 to attend the expanded MAS meeting where the start of the road blockade was defined from the 14th of this month.
EVismo tried to extend the blocking points in the rest of the country without success Because the Police reacted quickly to intervene in the outbreaks that were being created, in this way, only in Cochabamba did the number of blocking points grow. This Thursday, deputy Gualberto Arispe (MAS-ala evista), admitted that the only alternative the movement will have is to march towards La Paz to depose President Luis Arce.