He Former President of Bolivia and leader of the ruling party, Evo Morales (2006-2019), began a walk from the Altiplano to La Paz on Tuesday to demand respect for his candidacy for the general elections of 2025amid accusations from the Government of Luis Arce that it seeks to give a “coup d’état”.
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Morales leads the walk of some 187 kilometers from the town of Snailin the Andean region of Oruro, and marches alongside dozens of miners, peasants, workers and indigenous people who are ‘magazines’, that is, militants of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) who are loyal to him.
Before starting the march, the mobilized They presented an offering to Pachamama or Mother Earth to ask that the Andean deities accompany them and they also held a rally with speeches by union members in favor of the former ruler and criticism of him. Arce Government.
Morales’ supporters claim that it is a march for “save the homeland” in the face of problems such as the shortage of dollars and fuel, and the rise in the price of some basic products, for which they demand “Evo president”.
For four years we have endured and resisted Luis Arce (…) Now we are in Caracollo to begin the national march to save Bolivia led by our commander Evo
“For four years we have endured and resisted Luis Arce (…) Now we are in Snail to begin the national march to save Bolivia led by our commander Evo,” said the peasant leader Pontian Santos.
Santos accused Arce of being a “traitor”, “dictator” and also a “puppet of the empire,” and warned him that he would start a national road blockade at the end of the month if they are not summoned in the seven days that the walk to La Paz will take. discuss their demands.
In turn, Morales said that the “People mobilize when there is injustice, when there is inequality” and assured that it is a march “to save Bolivia” and “for future generations.”
He also expressed his desire that the Government call them to dialogue this week and address the demands raised in a meeting held at the beginning of the month by the ‘Evista’ sectors in the Tropic of Cochabambaits trade union and political stronghold in the centre of the country.
The march takes place in parallel to a road blockade initiated by indigenous people loyal to Morales in towns near the Lake Titicacademanding Arce’s resignation.
In a televised message, President Arce accused Morales on Sunday of seeking to shorten his mandate with the march and the announced roadblocks that, he said, will end in a “attempted coup”.
The president said that since 2020, Morales has been dedicated to preparing his own candidacy and working so that his government does poorly in order to appear as a “savior” from Bolivia and “stay in power for another 14 years or more.”
Stay in power for another 14 years or more
Morales and Arce have been estranged since the end of 2021 due to differences in the State Administration that deepened in the face of the need to renew the national leadership of the MAS, something in which the factions loyal to both have not been able to come to an agreement.
Morales’ supporters proclaimed him several times as “single candidate” for the elections of 2025while the block loyal to Arce insists on renewing the leadership of the MAS.
Morales’ candidacy It is a cause of internal controversy within the ruling party, since the Government has insisted that the former president can no longer run again, while its related sectors argue that it can.
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