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Faced with the climate of conflict and the strike against Law 1386 that Santa Cruz complies with, the Government and the Military High Command decided to cancel the parade scheduled for this Saturday in Santa Cruz in honor of the Army’s anniversary and ordered the withdrawal of the troops.
Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo reported that “after an evaluation by the Military Command, it has been decided to suspend the act in commemoration of Army Day.”
“In that understanding, the act that was planned in the city of Santa Cruz is not going to take place,” he said in an interview on Bolivia TV.
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He argued that the authorities made an “evaluation of the situation” that the country and that region are experiencing and in the face of “tensions and conflicts” they decided that the acts of this Saturday “be postponed to another date” in which the “conditions exist. “adequate and” without problems or risks that may arise “for the military institution.
The civic and part of those mobilized against Law 1386 had considered that the realization of this event in Santa Cruz was a provocation.
