An unusual movement of organized groups in the city of El Alto has sowed anxiety and threatens the stability of the government of that city and of the mayor Eva Copa with a so-called ‘blockade of a thousand corners’ and a dangerous fence around 700 officials who They were inside the institution building.
The mayor has associated the mobilization with a political mandate to destabilize her administration and has accused Evo Morales of being behind neighborhood leaders and councilors who are trying to remove her. ‘If you want my head, go to the recall’, Eva Copa said in dramatic expressions after escaping from the fence and desperately looking for her children because she said she had received threats that they were going to burn down her house.
The Secretary of Institutional Management, Rudy Balladares, named the former minister Juan Ramón Quintana, and the leaders of the MAS Wilma Alanoca, Fabiola Furuya, Juanito Angulo and Bertha Acarapi and said that they are Morales operators who are promoting the mobilizations to remove Eva Copa of his post.
The parents who carry out the blockade and the fence demand the construction of schools, distribution of school breakfast in all educational units, replacement of the POA 2021-2022, perimeter fences, new classrooms, new bathrooms in good condition in schools, security for students against the risks of robbery and kidnapping.
But in reality, due to the aggressive way in which the measure is carried out, everything indicates that it is a political action promoted by the MAS sector identified with Evo Morales.
On Thursday, the mayor managed to meet with parents earlier, but the radical leadership that organizes the protest reacted indignantly upon learning of those meetings and led the blockades to surround the municipal building where pregnant mothers, elderly people and minors.
The mayor denounced that the Police did not respond to her request for help to protect the Mayor’s building, because she appealed to the regional commander of El Alto and the Police commander, but to no avail.
The case of El Alto is not the only one where groups related to the MAS besiege local and departmental authorities that are not from the Morales party. In Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Tarija and Beni there are political movements that disguise their steps with “demands” to destabilize the efforts of mayors and governors.
In Santa Cruz, the Government faced three blockades in recent days by populations clearly identified with the Movement for Socialism.
In La Paz, Mayor Iván Arias is also besieged by peasants from the sub-mayor’s office of Hampaturi, and is also facing legal proceedings and authorities. As proof that these are political moves promoted by the MAS, there is the criminal complaint that the Foreign Ministry filed against Mayor Arias only because he requested a diplomatic passport and did not use it.
Who is behind these mobilizations? The same affected actors have said so: MAS and Evo Morales, who is even campaigning against President Luis Arce and two ministers, with accusations of alleged persecution, corruption, drug trafficking and even economic mismanagement.
Is Evo Morales desperate to return to power, now promoting mobilizations against local and departmental opposition authorities and against the government of his own party, to the point that he seems to have become the main opponent of Luis Arce’s administration? The facts speak for themselves.
An unusual movement of organized groups in the city of El Alto has sowed anxiety and threatens the stability of the government of that city and of the mayor Eva Copa with a so-called ‘blockade of a thousand corners’ and a dangerous fence around 700 officials who They were inside the institution building.
The mayor has associated the mobilization with a political mandate to destabilize her administration and has accused Evo Morales of being behind neighborhood leaders and councilors who are trying to remove her. ‘If you want my head, go to the recall’, Eva Copa said in dramatic expressions after escaping from the fence and desperately looking for her children because she said she had received threats that they were going to burn down her house.
The Secretary of Institutional Management, Rudy Balladares, named the former minister Juan Ramón Quintana, and the leaders of the MAS Wilma Alanoca, Fabiola Furuya, Juanito Angulo and Bertha Acarapi and said that they are Morales operators who are promoting the mobilizations to remove Eva Copa of his post.
The parents who carry out the blockade and the fence demand the construction of schools, distribution of school breakfast in all educational units, replacement of the POA 2021-2022, perimeter fences, new classrooms, new bathrooms in good condition in schools, security for students against the risks of robbery and kidnapping.
But in reality, due to the aggressive way in which the measure is carried out, everything indicates that it is a political action promoted by the MAS sector identified with Evo Morales.
On Thursday, the mayor managed to meet with parents earlier, but the radical leadership that organizes the protest reacted indignantly upon learning of those meetings and led the blockades to surround the municipal building where pregnant mothers, elderly people and minors.
The mayor denounced that the Police did not respond to her request for help to protect the Mayor’s building, because she appealed to the regional commander of El Alto and the Police commander, but to no avail.
The case of El Alto is not the only one where groups related to the MAS besiege local and departmental authorities that are not from the Morales party. In Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Tarija and Beni there are political movements that disguise their steps with “demands” to destabilize the efforts of mayors and governors.
In Santa Cruz, the Government faced three blockades in recent days by populations clearly identified with the Movement for Socialism.
In La Paz, Mayor Iván Arias is also besieged by peasants from the sub-mayor’s office of Hampaturi, and is also facing legal proceedings and authorities. As proof that these are political moves promoted by the MAS, there is the criminal complaint that the Foreign Ministry filed against Mayor Arias only because he requested a diplomatic passport and did not use it.
Who is behind these mobilizations? The same affected actors have said so: MAS and Evo Morales, who is even campaigning against President Luis Arce and two ministers, with accusations of alleged persecution, corruption, drug trafficking and even economic mismanagement.
Is Evo Morales desperate to return to power, now promoting mobilizations against local and departmental opposition authorities and against the government of his own party, to the point that he seems to have become the main opponent of Luis Arce’s administration? The facts speak for themselves.
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