Evo Morales remains in Bolivia adds 7,371 new infections and 30 deaths from coronavirus”>Cochabamba, while there is a fuel shortage in Bolivia / Photo: EFE
The road blockade in Bolivia by the followers of former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) turns one week this Monday, which has generated a shortage of fuel and some products, while the former president remains a refugee in the Tropic of Bolivia region. Cochabamba, its political and union bastion.
The sectors called ‘evistas’ have increased the blocking points on several roads in the center of the country in defense of the leader of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS), in the face of a possible arrest warrant against him for a case of human trafficking. and statutory rape for the alleged “rape” of a minor with whom he would have had a child when he was president of the country.
In the city of La Paz, fuel is scarce and on this day EFE confirmed that there are long lines of vehicles at the distributors and many users report that they spent the night in their cars waiting to be able to refuel with gasoline or diesel.
For its part, the Bolivian Police prevented an attempted blockade by the ‘evistas’ at dawn this Monday on the highway that connects La Paz with the city of Oruro and which is also the main route to the center and east of the country. .
Use of force
“We had to use force and we restored order by enabling the double lane (…) We also have four people arrested, one of them female who, in addition, was carrying 4,000 bolivianos (about $578),” he informed the media. the police chief of Oruro, Gonzalo Torrico.
Former President Morales, since an investigation process by the Public Ministry became known, has not left the Cochabamba region, even missing a summons from the Prosecutor’s Office in Tarija (south) to testify in the case of human trafficking and statutory rape. .
Morales insists on his presidential candidacy and the day before said on the coca radio station Kawsachun Coca that “if he wins the general elections” in 2025, he will need “1 billion dollars” to begin his administration in Bolivia.
Surveillance
Meanwhile, his followers keep an eye on the entrances to the coca-growing region of the Tropic of Cochabamba, where one of Morales’s homes is located.
The road blockade and the complaint against the former president occurs in the midst of a struggle between Arce and Morales for control of the ruling party and the Executive.
Both politicians have been estranged since the end of 2021, Morales insists on being the presidential candidate for the 2025 elections for the MAS and Arce has said that he will not let the ruling party be controlled by “one person.”
La Paz / EFE
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