Protesters in Bolivia stopped Evo Morales’ motorcade and egged the ex-president

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The ex-president of Bolivia Evo Morales was received on Thursday, March 18th, with heckling and egging in the city of Monteagudo, in the department of Chuquisaca, where a group of people tried to block passage of the motorcade in which the also leader of the governmental MAS party was traveling.

At the exit of the Apiaguaiki Tumpa airport in Monteagudo, the motorcade in which Evo Morales was traveling was attacked by locals who carried flags and posters rejecting the ex-president’s presence.

The situation became tense at times, the locals blocked and attacked at least two of the motorcade’s vehicles while accusing Morales of being a “pedophile” and a “rapist,” in reference to charges of alleged rape and human trafficking against the ex-president, which were never pursued by the courts.

Several women who led the protests made it clear that their rejection of Morales is not ” an anti-MAS issue,” the party they claim to support, and even pointed out that the ex-president “does not allow Luis Arce to do his job as head of state.”

Later Morales attended a campaign event in a sports center, where he asked for support to the candidate for governor Juan Carlos León, and once finished he had to be escorted by party militants because of the locals’ protests who rejected his presence.

The ex-head of state has been permanently active before and after the campaign for the sub-national elections as leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and his visit to Monteagudo was part of his party’s activities for the second round of elections for the governor of Chuquisaca.

Last December, when the campaign for the sub-national elections was just beginning, Morales was showered with chairs at a MAS meeting in a municipality in the Cochabamba tropics, the ex-president’s political and union stronghold.

After last March 7th elections, the MAS won the governments of Cochabamba, Oruro and Potosí and expects its candidates to win in the April 11th ballot in other 3 of Bolivia’s 9 departments.

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

Source: infobae

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