Bolivia: the city of Santa Cruz lives a day of violence due to protests

The Bolivian city of Santa Cruzeconomic engine of bolivialived this Friday a day of violencewith street clashes between government supporters and opponents and looting of two offices of unions affiliated with the government.

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holy Crosscontrolled by the right-wing opposition, meets this Friday 21 days of protests with blockades of streets, avenues and roads interdepartmental groups to demand from the government of the leftist louis arce to carry out in advance a population census planned for 2024.

The opposition region demands the census to update your legislative representation and the amount of state funds it receives, considering that there is a greater number of inhabitants than the one reported by the latest official statistics.

During the morning, retail vendors and public service drivers marched down an avenue in the city to demand that the blockades of streets and roads be suspended. His mobilization ran into opposition picketers and there were clashes with stones, sticks and firecrackers.

Neighbors organized with the help of young people linked to the civic committee of Santa Crossa civil-business conglomerate, and pushed back the pro-government protesters.

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Riot police intervened by firing tear gas to disperse the demonstrations.

The opposition groups burned tires that they used as barricades and claimed to have been repressed by the uniformed officers.

“Today the people of Santa Cruz [gentilicio de Santa Cruz] has been attacked by the Police and by the PLUS”said the governor of holy CrossLuis Fernando Camacho, mentioning the government party, movement to socialism.

He noted that the police and the MAS “They have generated anxiety and have fired tear gas.”

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The Minister of Government (Interior), Edward del Castilloresponded that the demonstration of vendors and drivers “It was the peaceful march of the people that was brutally attacked by financed radical sectors that seek confrontation.”

Hours later, young opponents angrily attacked the offices of the Federation of Farmers of Santa Cruzclose to the ruling party, which they burned and looted until the arrival of the police and firefighters, according to images from the private television channel Unitel.

Subsequently, the headquarters of the largest local union, the Departmental Workers Central (COD), was also looted.

There is no official version of the number of injured and detainees in this working day.

In three weeks of protests, holy Cross it recorded four deaths in street clashes between civilians, a woman raped and 178 injured, according to a balance of the Arce government.

Source: Elcomercio

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