Repudiation of Evo Morales in Bolivia: protesters arrested his trailer and threw eggs at him

Former President of Bolivia Evo Morales was received this Thursday with boos and hoots in the town of Monteagudo, in the department of Chuquisaca, where a group of people tried to prevent the passage of the caravan in which the head of the MAS government was also moving.

At the exit of the Apiaguaiki Tumpa airport in Monteagudo, the caravan in which Evo Morales was traveling was attacked by locals carrying flags and posters rejecting the presence of the former president.

Sometimes the situation got tense, the villagers blocked and attacked at least two vehicles of the caravan, accusing him of “pedophile“Y”rapist», In reference to some complaints of alleged rape and trafficking and human trafficking against the former president which ultimately did not prosper in court.

Several women who led the protests said their rejection of Morales did not “it’s a question against the MAS“, A party they say they support, and even points out that the former president”don’t let Luis Arce work as president“.

Later, Morales was at a campaign event at a sports center, where he asked for the gubernatorial candidate’s support. Juan carlos leon, and once finished was to be escorted by party activists before the protests of the inhabitants who rejected their presence.

Former Head of State has been permanently active before and after the campaign for the subnational elections at the head of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and his visit to Monteagudo was part of his party’s activities as the second round of elections to elect the governor of Chuquisaca approached.

Last December, with the campaign for sub-nationals only just beginning, Morales was inundated with chairs at a MAS meeting in a municipality in the tropics of Cochabamba, the political and trade union stronghold of the former president.

After the March 7 elections, the MAS remained with the governorates of Cochabamba, Oruro and Potosí and hopes that in the April 11 election its candidates will win in three other departments, out of Bolivia’s nine.

Among the main cities, opposition groups won the town halls of La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Potosí, Tarija, Trinidad and Cobija, while the MAS ended up with the Bolivian capital, Sucre and Oruro .

(With information from EFE)

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