Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced on Friday November 1 that he was starting a hunger strike to demand dialogue with the government of President Luis Arce. Earlier in the day, Morales supporters took hostage a “ twenties » of soldiers after seizing a barracks in the Chapare region, in central Bolivia, military sources announced. Morales’ defenders have been blocking the country’s main roads since October 14 in support of their leader, targeted by an investigation for the alleged rape of a teenage girl.
« I will go on hunger strike until the government installs […] negotiation tables “, Evo Morales told the press in the Chapare region, his political stronghold in the center of the country.
A little earlier, Friday November 1, “ irregular armed groups » took over a barracks, « taking soldiers hostage » and grabbing “ weapons and ammunition “, indicated the armed forces in a press release published Friday November 1 on the social network twenties » of soldiers had been taken hostage.
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