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The spokesman for the Movement for Socialism (MAS), Sebastián Michel, denounced in an interview on Bolivian television that the president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, suffered an attack with dynamite. According to Michel, Arce was in the house that functions as a campaign center in La Paz when a stick of dynamite was thrown at the door of the property.
– A few minutes ago we were victims of an attack by a group that left a stick of dynamite in the tent where our own president-elect, Luis Arce, met. We are very concerned about what is happening – said the party’s representative in an interview with Televisión Universitaria and Red Uno.
Michel said no one was hurt. Provisional government officials have yet to comment and the news has not yet been verified by independent sources. There is no information on suspects.
Arce is scheduled to open this Sunday. On Thursday, leaders of the prosperous Bolivian region of Santa Cruz (Este), a bastion of the right, launched a two-day strike against him.
Michel affirmed that Arce still does not have the support of a police security team or the Armed Forces. He complained that the country’s authorities have not ruled on the matter and do not provide security to the highest authority in Bolivia.
– We did not see any statement about the Minister of Government Arturo Murillo, so we feel abandoned to our fate, totally unprotected. Nobody gives us the necessary guarantee for the security of our authority.
Those in charge of the commission that organizes the inauguration ceremony were at the site, he said.
Michel also affirmed that the MAS will not form militias in the country, as requested by a leader of the Unity Pact, an organization that brings together social sectors of the ruling party. He said that the government of Luis Arce will not allow the presence of irregular armed groups in Bolivia and that disarmament is a public policy.
Luis Arce was elected in the first round last month, with 55% of the vote, a little less than a year after the resignation of his ally Evo Morales, under pressure from the opposition and an ultimatum from the military.
