Evo defends apprehended blockers; addresses the crisis and relegates complaints against him

Through his social media accounts, the former president Evo Morales reacted in favor of the nine leaders who were apprehended when they were trying to install a blockade point in El Alto. He compared the Government of Luis Arce with that of Jeanine Áñez or with that of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. “Arce and Choquehuanca use the methods of Sánchez Berzaín and Murillo” he wrote.

“By not being able to provide answers to the serious economic, political, social and institutional crisisthe government of Luis Arce Catacora resorts to repression, the criminalization of social protest and the persecution of social leaders. There are already more than twenty people detained in Cochabamba and El Alto for exercising their right to protest,” the former president wrote in X, thus changing the axis of the blockade, which It was arranged by his bases against the intention of stopping him for the process in which he is accused of statutory rape.

Morales now refers only to the economic crisis that crosses the country and no longer mentions the rape complaint against him in Tarija.

On Friday morning a group of leaders from El Alto who were trying to install a blockade point were apprehended and were later presented as part of Evo Morales’ group. Vice Minister Roberto Ríos accused a councilor from El Alto of coordinating with those arrested, although he did not mention the councilor’s name.

In the municipality of El Alto, evismo has two councilorsformer minister Wilma Alanoca and Fabiola Furuya, the closest is Alanoca, who actively participates in opposition tasks to the Government.

Luis Castaya, one of those arrested this Friday He claimed to be a leader of one of the many fejuves in the city of El Alto and assured that they were not blocking and that, when they were walking with their companions, they were apprehended.

“For demanding the demands of the people we have been detained“As neighborhood leaders and leaders of different organizations, there was not a stone on the road, we were in a place peacefully and they have detained us unjustly,” he said and denied being a carrier of explosives as the Government claims.