“We cannot watch from the lodge as social organisations, so we are calling our three leaders to a meeting for political analysis,” said Oscar Ramírez, chairman of the Unified Confederation of Trade Unions of Bolivian Smallholders (Csutcb).
Ramírez confirmed to the Gigavisión network that this meeting will take place at the “farmers’ headquarters in the city of La Paz”.
The Csutcb is one of the most influential social organizations integrated into the Pact of Unity, the base of the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for Peoples’ Sovereignty (MAS-IPSP) and the support of the Arce government.
For his part, Morales again warned in a tweet this Tuesday against “scheming” aimed at dividing popular forces.
“Coupists who lied when they said Evo controls brother @LuchoXBolivia are now falsely denouncing Evo intending to stage a coup. The truth is that they fear a united and strengthened MAS-IPSP. They try to confuse with intrigues. Expelling the DEA and their agents takes care of our government,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
The text continued another message published this Monday, in which the leader of the MAS-IPSP reiterated the call for militancy unity and warned that in the name of “renewal” fragmentation of political organization is encouraged.
“Those who have been massacring the people in the de facto government are falsely blaming us – Bolivia’s first former indigenous president has warned – and are falling in line with those who promote treason and division in the name of ‘renewal’.”
Morales insisted on defending MAS-IPSP unity on the basis of truth, honesty and dignity.
Ahead of this, the co-leader of the coca farmers’ union in Chapare, in the Cochabamba tropics, released audio of anti-drug agents trying to prevent an anti-drug operation in the area.
Following the complaint, former director of the Special Unit to Combat Drug Trafficking, José María Velazco, and other former bosses were fired, police intervened in the middle of an investigation due to close on April 15, and ordered that their entire Personnel who have been dismissed have a duty to submit to the “lie detector”.
Ramírez reiterated to Gigavisión that the April 18 meeting will seek the best solutions so that the right does not reach the rupture of the left in order to “put them in their game”.
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