RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Clashes between blockaders and the Police and groups trying to dissipate the protests marked the first day of the strike in Bolivia, which ended with more than a hundred people arrested and several injured, a day that coincided with the first year of Luis Arce’s government.
The first day of the indefinite strike in Bolivia was especially felt in seven of the country’s nine regions. The population carried out several blockade points that prevented the passage of vehicles.
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In the regions of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Tarija, Potosí, Oruro, and Beni, the blockades and protests carried out by the people in rejection of Law 1386, the National Strategy Against the Legitimization of Illicit Profits were felt more.
In the eastern city of Santa Cruz, the country’s economic engine, the indefinite strike was strongly felt, and the streets were cut off with blockades in which there were also some confrontations with people related to the pro-government Movement Towards Socialism who were trying to unblock the road.