Protests in Bolivia | Evo Morales says that Rodrigo Paz “only has” to militarize Bolivia or call for last elections

The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) He maintained this Sunday that the President Rodrigo Paz He has only “two paths” in the face of conflicts with sectors that ask for his resignation, “militarize” the country or call elections in the next 90 days, something that the followers of the coca-growing leader have also requested.

On the same May 11, a march of followers of the former president left for La Paz from the highlands to join a week later the protests of the peasants and the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) calling for Paz’s resignation.

The Peace Government has accused Morales of promoting protests to “avoid” the trial against him.

road blocks They have mainly cut the strategic highway between the cities of La Paz and El Alto and the borders with Peru and Chile and the connections with the south and interior of the country, leaving both cities short of food, fuel and medical supplies such as medicinal oxygen.

The day before, the Peace Government failed in a new attempt to free that route through a “humanitarian corridor” that was resisted by protesters with dynamite charges and stones thrown from slings, to which the agents accompanying the convoy responded with tear gas.