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Bolivia: demonstration against the right-wing government

2020-07-16T05:03:24.133Z


Defying the quarantine imposed to prevent the coronavirus, thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in La Paz to protest against the health, education and work policies of the right-wing acting president, Jeanine Áñez. The demonstration, the largest since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in March, was organized at the call of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) union. Speaking to the demonstrator...


Defying the quarantine imposed to prevent the coronavirus, thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in La Paz to protest against the health, education and work policies of the right-wing acting president, Jeanine Áñez. The demonstration, the largest since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in March, was organized at the call of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) union. Speaking to the demonstrators, the COB chief, the minor Juan Carlos Huarachi, said that "the people express their needs" .

The march brought together some 4,000 people, according to journalists, who traveled about 12 kilometers from the town of El Alto to La Paz, seat of political power, both of whom were quarantined due to the pandemic. "We support the mobilization of rural and urban teachers against virtual education and we demand the resignation of the minister (Víctor Hugo) Cárdenas" , launched Carlos Huarachi.

Since the proclamation of the health emergency in March, lessons have been suspended and several schools, including private ones, have set up virtual education. Minister Cárdenas is also trying to apply this virtual education in public schools, but rural areas and poor neighborhoods in cities suffer from a lack of access to the internet or adequate equipment. " We ask for free internet access because there are children who do not have a mobile phone with the internet and cannot study" at home, Feliciana Quesucala, 46, resident of El, told AFP. Alto.

The demonstration intends to denounce "the health and education situation as well as the massive dismissal suffered by workers" due to the economic depression, said another union official, Gustavo Arce. "What do we want?" Elections now, ” chanted protesters repeatedly, referring to the general election of September 6, which President Áñez tried to postpone due to the pandemic.

Ms. Áñez, five of her ministers, as well as the President of Congress, Eva Copa, and other senior officials contracted the coronavirus. To date, Bolivia has 49,000 cases of Covid-19 contamination for 1,886 deaths.

Source: lefigaro

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