00:00In this context, Bolivian Vice President Edmond Lara condemned the reported abuses and repression carried out by the police against
00:07communities during the government-mandated operation to set up an alleged humanitarian corridor amid roadblocks in La Paz and Oruro.
00:15From an official issued by the Vice Presidency, Lara Sher, today the police were standing behind white flags, claiming it
00:22was a humanitarian operation, but behind those flags there was tear gas, there was dynamite and there were screams of
00:29mothers begging them to stop.
00:31In this regard, he stressed, this is not how you govern, this is not how you respond to the people's
00:36hunger, fear and exhaustion with repression or arrest warrants.
00:40Nor can we, one, pretend to clear a path for the field by trampling on the dignity of the people
00:45who live and struggle along that very road.
00:48In this context, the VP emphasized,
00:51I demand that the repression stop right now, I demand a truthful account of how many injured and detained there
00:57are, and I demand that the entire cabinet step forward and seek them to talk, face to face, without helmets
01:03or shields in the way.
01:04Assuring that the country is not brought to peace through violence, it is brought to peace by listening, looking people
01:10in the eyes and keeping one's word.
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