Bolivians protest against coup d'état in several departments
- Written by Prensa Latina
- Published in International
La Paz, Nov 21.- Road blocks in at least seven Bolivian departments show the popular rejection of the coup d'état perpetrated by oligarchy sectors, the police and the Army against legitimate president Evo Morales.
Press releases reported road blocks in La Paz, Oruro, Beni, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Potosi, which the de facto authorities insisted on criminalizing in order to silence the demands of popular sectors to cease the repression and return to constitutional order.
According to data from the Bolivian Highway Administration, road blocks in the South American country increased from 83 to 102 in the last 24 hours. Protesters rejecting the coup government of Jeannine Añez maintain their main focus in the Senkata area, on the Oruro-La Paz highway, to prevent the transfer of fuel to La Paz from the state-run Bolivian Oil Fields (YPFB) plant located there.
The Ministry of Defense issued a statement on Wednesday night in which it accused supporters of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) of surrounding fuel facilities.
Evo Morales denounced on Wednesday from his asylum in Mexico the wave of increasing violence unleashed in Bolivia in the context of the coup d'état against his government.