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  • Roadblock Bolivia

    Bolivia’s right-wing coup government is facing resistance

    Originally published: Red Flag on August 19, 2020 by Robert Narai (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2020)

    On 28 July, tens of thousands took to the streets of El Alto, the predominantly working-class and Indigenous city that overlooks La Paz, in a mobilisation called by the Bolivian Workers Centre (Central Obrera Boliviana, or COB), the country’s chief trade union federation, together with other worker, peasant and Indigenous organisations (gathered under the title of the “Pact of Unity”) to demand the TSE hold a general election on 6 September.