US EditionThe Escalation of Pre-Electoral Violence in Bolivia Increases with the Death of Two Police Officers
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The mobilization of Bolivian peasants for the empowerment of former President Evo Morales to the August elections escalated with the death of two policemen in Llallagua, a mining city in northern Potosí. They were part of the uniformed personnel deployed by the Government of Luis Arce to regain control of the area, where the previous hours there had been clashes, with several wounded, between roadblockers responding to the “evism” and neighbors …
One policeman died and another was injured on Wednesday in a mining village in southwestern Bolivia when they participated in an operation to clear a road cut off by supporters of former President Evo Morales, reported the Ministry of Government.Groups of followers of the coca growers leader protest since last week against the management of President Luis Arce, who they blame for the economic crisis and to manipulate the institutions to leave th…
Evo Morales's challenge to the Bolivian government seems to have no limits. Two officers of the National Police are the victims of the ambush, as they have defined it...
Oruro, 12 June 2025 (ATB Digital).—At the gates of the Departmental Police Command in Oruro, Marta Rodríguez, mother of Lieutenant Brayan Barrozo, implores in tears that the authorities allow the transfer of her son’s body. Brayan is the first police officer to have died in the recent violent clashes in the municipality of Llallagua. The conflict in Llallagua was unleashed by social protests and blockades organized by groups that demand the empo…
Latin American Summary. June 12, 2025. Photo: Andronico Rodríguez, at a meeting of Fedecomin. Photo: RRSS Andronico Rodríguez “We deeply regret the murders of compatriots that have taken place today. Violence between Bolivians must stop,” said the president of the Senate, Andronico Rodríguez. “We demand the authorities to identify those responsible and to be judged [...] La entrada Bolivia. Andronico demands to identify the authors of ‘murderers…
The Bolivian Government denounced that the police were ambushed on the road to Llallagua by the mobilized people, who were stationed in the nearby hills, from where they threw stones, dynamites and, according to the authorities, also attacked the agents with firearms. Bolivian President Luis Arce, on Wednesday lamented the death of three policemen during an operation to remove roadblocks carried out by supporters of ex-mandator Evo Morales (2006…
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