Former President Evo Morales assured this Friday that he will begin a hunger strike to pressure for a dialogue with the Government of Luis Arce, after 19 days of protests and road blockades by his followers in Bolivia.
“To prioritize dialogue, I am going to start a hunger strike until the Government” installs “dialogue tables,” said the former president in a statement to the press in the coca-growing region of Chapare, in the department of Cochabamba. Furthermore, “for the dialogue to be viable, responsible and have results, I ask for the participation of international organizations from friendly countries,” added the former president.
According to Morales, “the economic issue” and “the political issue” should be discussed in two tables. The former governor explained that at the first table he hopes to discuss with his former minister’s Administration the crisis derived from the lack of dollars that has restricted fuel imports that Bolivia sells at a subsidized price.
Regarding the “political issue,” he hoped that the situation of “unjustly detained and imprisoned leaders” can be addressed within the framework of the protest that, along with other followers, began 19 days ago against their probable arrest for a case of statutory rape. which allegedly occurred when he was president in 2015.
“When processes correspond to them, let them be processed, but not because they are mobilized or because of ideological differences,” Morales argued.
Arce: “Our Government has always opted for dialogue”
Hours later, on social networks, the Bolivian president replied that: “Our Government has always opted for dialogue, but no dialogue is possible as long as the economy of Bolivian families continues to be suffocated and the right to access to food is violated. fuel and medicine”, due to road blockades.
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