The president of Bolivia denounces the takeover of three barracks by “armed groups” related to Evo Morales

The fratricidal war between former president Evo Morales and President Luis Arce has reached the military barracks. “Irregular armed groups” of Evista radicals have taken over today, Friday, three military units in the Cochabamba Tropics, the territory under Morales’ control in which around twenty roadblocks are maintained, in which they have been demanding for almost three weeks that they abandon the statutory rape investigation against Evo.

“The takeover of a military installation by irregular groups anywhere in the world is a crime of treason, an affront to the Constitution, the Armed Forces and the Bolivian people themselves, who strongly reject Evo’s criminal blockades. Morales, as well as these criminal actions,” Arce criticized on his social networks.

Evo Morales, for his part, asked his followers to consider ending the road blockades that have been going on for 19 days and announced that will go on a hunger strike so that there is a dialogue with the Government with international mediation.

Morales plans to go on hunger strike at the headquarters of the Six Federations of the Tropics from Cochabamba, the main union of coca growers of Bolivia that the former president has led for decades and that is based in that central area that is his union and political bastion.

The leader of the government Movement towards Socialism (MAS) has been entrenched in the Tropics of Cochabamba for 19 days facing the possibility that an arrest warrant will be issued against him for an investigation into alleged human trafficking and statutory rape.

Kidnapped

Meanwhile, the “kidnapped” soldiers were displayed by the attackers, tied up and placed in a row after the assault on the Cacique Juan Marazo regiment. The offensive of Evo’s peasants continued later in the naval unit of the Abuná River and in the Ninth Division in the Tropics.

The president has advanced that “he will exercise his constitutional powers to protect the interest of the Bolivian people” against blockades “that are strangling the families’ economy.”

The military commanders have ordered the quartering of their cadres and troops in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Arce renewed the military leadership days ago the hardening of the pulse between the factions of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the face of next year’s presidential elections.

“We remember that whoever takes up arms against the homeland is considered treason to the homeland and an armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the State,” warned the Army High Command.

Evo anticipated the offensive of his followers by accusing the government of sending 40 snipers to Cochabamba to repress the social protest. “Instead of responding with dialogue, the government responds with fascist measures,” criticized Morales, who is being investigated for aggravated statutory rape and human trafficking for the relationship he had, when he was president, with a 15-year-old girl, with whom he had a daughter in common. Currently, the girl is 24 years old and the girl is eight.

Despite the seriousness of the accusations and despite being involved in an attempted electoral fraud in 2019, Morales intends to participate in next year’s presidential elections. The Constitution would not allow him to preside over the government again after three terms.

Bolivia suffers a crisis within another deepened by road blockades. The accusations between both sectors include the “attack” suffered on Sunday by Morales, which the government described as a “self-attack.”