00:00And social and indigenous movements in the Chapade region of central Bolivia denounced a total energy cut in the Cochabamba
00:08department on Wednesday night.
00:09They claimed that this is a maneuver by the government of President Rodrigo Paz to kidnap former President Evo Morales.
00:15The blackout that affected the towns of Villa Tonati, Shimode, Sinajora and Iber Gardezama began at 7.50 p.m.
00:23local time and lasted up almost three hours.
00:25The leaders denounced that rather than being a technical cut, it is a deliberate maneuver in which U.S. forces
00:31would be intervening with the approval of the Bolivian executive.
00:34The episode occurred in a context of high political and social tension where the communities of Chapade have led mobilizations
00:40in rejection of the program of the President Paz, whom they accused of being a hunger maker and a traitor.
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