LatinNews Daily - 16 June 2025

*The alliance of Bolivian trade unions and grassroots organisations allied with former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) that since 2 June has led a nationwide campaign of roadblocks in support of Morales’ re-election ambitions has announced a “humanitarian pause” in the blockade. This pause came in response to rising violence at the barricades, with six deaths reported in the past week – four police officers, one protester, and one teenager. In a joint statement, five organisations including the peasants’ union Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB) and the indigenous organisation Confederación Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu (Conamaq) said that the pause was intended to facilitate an investigation into the deaths, which they blamed on the crackdown ordered by President Luis Arce. However, the statement added that the protesters “will continue with other forms of pressure” such as demonstrations and pot-banging protests “to defend family purchasing power, the economy of the Bolivian people, and in defence of our natural resources…until the resignation of this incompetent government that starves and murders the people”.

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