November 7, 2024, 9:33 PM
November 7, 2024, 9:33 PM
On the sixth day of the hunger strike Former President Evo Morales and the municipal authorities who were with him lifted the extreme measure they had taken on the night of Friday, November 1. They demanded dialogue with the Government and the freedom of those detained in the blockades.
“It has been determined that Brother Evo Morales can end the hunger strike, at the request of our colleagues from the six federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, which Brother Evo Morales has accepted“, knowing that we, as six federations, have always seen brother Evo Morales in a fight that has always been there,” said leader Dieter Mendoza before the coca growers’ media.
On the night of Friday, November 1, after learning of the seizure of three military units On the part of those close to Evistism, Morales came out to propose suspending the blockade and starting a hunger strike with the purpose of setting up a dialogue table. Although the sectors he commands said that they would continue the blockade because it is the ‘people’s general staff’ that directs the actions.
As the days went by, the demand changed. to open a negotiation table and release those detained by the Police at the blocking points; They annulled the request to lift the proceedings against him and the re-nomination. This Thursday, the only demand made by the coca growers was the freedom of the detainees.
“The demand of all the six federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba is the immediate release of all our colleagues who have been detained illegally, unjustly, under this traitor and dictator government,” Mendoza recited later.
Likewise, he said that after lifting the pressure measure, the coca growers agreed to call for an expanded national It will take place on Sunday, November 13 which will have as its mission a national evaluation after having given the 72-hour pause in the road blockade.
