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Weekly Report - 07 November 2024 (WR-24-44)

BOLIVIA: Protest pause grants Arce brief respite

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce delivered a televised national address on 6 November expressing his government’s willingness to participate in wide-ranging talks to end the “criminal” and “inhuman” roadblocks that had resulted in economic losses to the country of in excess of US$2.1bn. Arce’s speech followed the declaration of a 72-hour “pause” in protests by supporters of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), who have been blocking roads around the country for three weeks to demand the closure of a rape and human trafficking investigation into the former president [WR-24-41] and to allow him to compete in the 2025 presidential elections. Morales began a hunger strike on 1 November to try and pressure Arce to come to the dialogue table.

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