The Executive Branch reiterated this predisposition in the face of the call for dialogue by Ombudsman Pedro Callisaya, with the sector associated with former President Evo Morales of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

Prada read this weekend the letter of reply to Callisaya, in which he also pointed out that the Government, within its constitutional faculties, “will continue working for restoring public order, returning to normality, and stabilizing the Bolivian families’ economy.

She underscored that the blockades started three weeks ago are mainly aimed at approving the presidential candidacy of the former president, who is of Aymara origin, for the 2025 elections, and his exclusion from criminal proceedings, including one for alleged sexual relations with a minor.

The minister criticized that the blockades held the Department of Cochabamba hostage and violated rights such as access to food, fuel, medicines, free transit, work, and peace of the population.

“The right to protest in no part of the world is a license to attack the rights of the entire population,” he said.

A police-military operation in which some 3,000 policemen were involved, according to the Government Ministry, to restore these rights, provoked on Friday that three military and hostage units were assaulted in Chapare, Cochabamba, by supporters of Morales.

In this context, the former president began his hunger strike and recalled that in September, his movement presented a list of demands to the Government of President Luis Arce, which, according to him, had responded with repression, although he had proposed dialogue to resolve the conflict.

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