Within the midst of more and more scorching climate and some hours after a gaggle of Militants of Evo Morales broke into the facilities of a military regiment and took hostage the troopers and civilians who had been there, the previous president appeared on social networks and introduced that he would begin a starvation strike as a way to strain the opening of a dialogue channel with the federal government. “We don't need bloodshed,” he clarified.
“I ask the Unity Pact and the Folks's Common Employees to think about a short lived quarter on the street blockade. Within the meantime, we are going to declare a starvation strike. To do that, the federal government should withdraw all navy and police forces,” stated that X profile.
“And for the dialogue to be sustainable, accountable and to have outcomes, I request the participation of worldwide organizations from pleasant international locations”, added the previous president.
Morales defined that on the first desk he hopes to debate with the administration of his former minister Luis Arce the disaster attributable to an absence of dollars that has restricted imports of gas that Bolivia sells at a backed value.
Concerning the “political difficulty”, he hopes that the scenario of the “arrested and unjustly imprisoned leaders” will be addressed throughout the protest that, along with different followers, began 19 days in the past towards their attainable arrest for a case of abuse. sexual assault that allegedly occurred whereas he was president in 2015.
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Evo Morales militants seized a regiment and held navy and civilian hostages
The strain associated to the blockades reached its peak when this afternoon a gaggle of militants entered the services of the navy regiment “Cacique Juan Maraza” within the municipality of Villa Tunari, within the Tropics of Cochabamba and took hostage each civilians and troopers who had been on the scene. .
In a video broadcast on social networks, a soldier on the bottom explains the seriousness of the scenario and makes an pressing enchantment to his superiors, demanding instant intervention to guard the integrity of the detainees.
“They minimize off our water and electrical energy and took us hostage,” stated the uniformed man, whereas the mobilized known as for the resignation of President Luis Arce.
Via his statements, he asks a normal – with out revealing his identification – to chorus from interfering within the blockades in Parotani and different areas, as he assures that the lives of his troopers and instructors are in peril.
“Please my normal, I ask your authority to look into it. “We’re right here mother and father, kids, brothers, complete households”, he stated.
In the meantime, the president of Bolivia denounced the Evista militants and described this act as “treason towards the nation”. “We denounce earlier than the Bolivian individuals and the worldwide group that armed teams linked to Evo Morales have stormed three navy items within the Cochabamba Tropics, holding navy personnel and their households hostage and threatening their lives,” Arce wrote on social media. sOciaL