“Evo declared war on the State” and “this is subversion” | “Evo le declaró la guerra al Estado” y “esto es subversión”

By Fernando Chavez, Vision 360:

“Evo declared war on the State” and “this is subversion”: reactions following the takeover of a military unit

The incident has generated various reactions, with talk of terrorism and sedition and criticism directed at the Armed Forces.

Captura de video de la toma de la unidad militar en el Chapare.

Video capture of the military unit takeover in Chapare.

The violent takeover of a military unit in Chapare this Friday has sparked a wave of reactions on social media. Analyst Franklin Pareja argues that “Evo Morales has declared war on the State,” while former Defense Minister Fernando López condemned the event, calling it “subversion.”

“This is not a neighborhood brawl; Evo has declared war on the State. It is no longer just a government issue but goes far beyond Luis Arce. The country is in danger, battling a powerful, quasi-military, and criminal social organization. This war cannot be lost,” said Pareja on the X platform.

Meanwhile, Jeanine Añez’s former minister expressed on the same platform, “High command of the Armed Forces, a bunch of cowards! You abandoned your troops; this is subversion, filthy regulars. You should be in charge of nothing,” accompanied by the hashtag Guerilla warfare in Bolivia.

This Friday, around two thousand coca growers allied with former president Evo Morales took control of the Cacique Maraza Regiment in District 8 of Villa Tunari. The group even entered the weapons room on site and took at least 20 people hostage.

For constitutional lawyer Williams Bascopé, this act represents “an act of sedition and terrorism by MAS supporters.” Journalist Claudia Soruco noted that “for less than this, the Cochala Youth Resistance was detained and sentenced.”

“There is the use of weapons and threats to fire, the kidnapping of police and journalists, the takeover of military institutions, the use of dynamite, armed uprising, and clear threats of killings. TERRORISM,” she wrote on X.

From Santa Cruz, engineer Andrés Pucci criticized, “That peasants would take a military regiment shows the extremely high level of training of our Army, which costs us 458 million dollars a year.”

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