🇧🇴 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮
Hundreds of civilians took over a military base in the Cochabamba area and took captive the soldiers who were there. They also stole weapons and ammunition.
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It is pertinent to note that despite being barred from contesting in the polls, Morales expressed his intention to challenge his former ally turned rival, President Luis Arce, for the nomination of the left-wing Mas party. The country is scheduled to hold presidential elections in August 2025.
Earlier, Morales led a march of thousands of mainly Indigenous Bolivians on the administrative capital, La Paz, to protest against Arce’s policies. Soon after the demonstrations, prosecutors announced that the former president is being investigated for rape, human trafficking, and human smuggling over his alleged relationship with a 15-year-old girl in 2015. In the case, Morales was accused of fathering a daughter with the girl. However, he has denied all the allegations hurled against him.
President calls for an end to the protests
Amid the chaos, on Wednesday, Arce demanded an “immediate” end to the roadblocks and said the government would “exercise its constitutional powers to safeguard the interests of the Bolivian people” if the protesters did not comply.
Many Bolivians took the country’s president’s warning as a threat to use the military to end the blockade, which has caused widespread food and fuel shortages and prompted prices of basic goods to soar. Interestingly, Chapare is the same place where Morales claimed that he was a victim of an assassination attempt last week.
The government at that time noted that police fired on the vehicle after coming under fire from Morales’s convoy at a checkpoint set up to combat drug trafficking in the Chapare.
With inputs from agencies.
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