00:00On Sunday, Bolivian peace and indigenous and trade union organizations announced the kidnapping of five central obrera leaders
00:07and accused the government of President Rodrigo Paz of deploying undercover agents.
00:13The leaders, Limber Sánchez, Patricia Sánchez, Eber Bravo, Sergio Onofre and Abelio Ramos
00:18were kidnapped at around 2040 local time in the town of El Alto by police officers in plain clothes who
00:26were carrying long guns.
00:27This irregular procedure occurred while the numbers of complaints about human rights violations and police abuse
00:33was growing just a few hours after the Congress approved special powers for the executive to act by exceptional means.
00:41The Vice President Edmundo Lara was present at the place where the trade union leaders had been taken
00:47and questioned the use of undercover agents.
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