Former minister Juan Ramón Quintana, one of the most controversial in the Evo Morales government, once again generated controversy in recent days because, in the midst of the Evista conflict, he assured that the “rite of the blockade is fed through blood.”
“Unfortunately, we are at an extremely critical moment, a spark can set the prairie on fire,” Quintana said Wednesday night in an interview with Abya Yala.
Social organizations that defend former President Evo Morales, accused of alleged rape and human trafficking, have been carrying out an indefinite road blockade since last Monday that keeps the department of Cochabamba isolated and that, in the last few hours, has spread to other regions, such as Oruro and Santa Cruz.
“Today (the protest) is becoming massive.” The rite of blockages is a gradual rite, it is not overnight (that) we are going to make five points of blockage. And how is the rite of blockage fed? Unfortunately, it feeds through blood,” said the former minister.
“When there are colleagues who are beaten, injured, murdered, the blockade ends up being, practically, the rite of death of power,” Quintana continued, referring to the police interventions that occurred at some Evista blockade points.
The mayor of Santa Cruz, Jhonny Fernández, pointed out on Thursday that these “threats, which are outside the constitutional framework, have to be analyzed and see what is happening.”
For his part, the peasant leader of the Arcista wing, Mario Seña, asked this Friday: “Are they taking people out to blockade to sow blood and mourning again and then negotiate with the blood of the Bolivian people?”
A series of questions also arose on social networks against Quintana for his controversial statements.
