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At least two civilians died and 11 police officers were injured in the protest that the former president’s followers began on Monday. Evo Morales against the judges who disqualified his presidential candidacy for 2025, according to an official report.
After four days of demonstrations, the government of Luis Arce – former ally of Morales – guaranteed this Thursday that Two people lost their lives after becoming trapped in coca growers’ barriers and other peasant organizations.
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On Wednesday, the death of a 53-year-old woman who had blood pressure problems and was unable to travel by land from La Paz to Santa Cruz was reported.
““We want to report (…) the second death due to the lockdown avoided”, said this Thursday the deputy minister of the government, Roberto Rios, at a press conference.
The victim is René Pauasi, a 57-year-old transporter, who suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday night in the Chapare area, department of Cochabamba, and could not be rescued due to road closures, according to the person in charge.
Also the previous day, 11 police officers were injured by protesters who attacked them with stones and explosives at a certain point during the protest in the department of Potosí.
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“The Potosí Farmers Federation, numbering approximately 200 people, began to ambush our police officers,” said the colonel Juan Amílcar Sotopeña, regional police commander to a local radio station.
Some of the injured were taken to health centers, none of them serious.
This Thursday, the Highway Administration registered 22 blocking points on highways in the state Cochabamba, Oruro, Potosí, La Paz and Santa Cruzeconomic engine of Boliviacompared to the 16 that were on Wednesday.
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The protest was called in rejection of the Constitutional Court’s decision that prevents Morales from presenting his candidacy again, with the argument that he has already served the two terms allowed by the regulations.
The maximum leader of the cocaleros was president between 2006 and 2019, when he was forced to resign due to a social uprising that denounced alleged electoral fraud in order to obtain a fourth term.
Source: Elcomercio
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