The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) has condemned on Saturday the acts of violence registered during the Santa Cruz strike, in the framework of the protests for the celebration of the census in 2023.
«IACHR condemns new acts of violence in Santa Cruz: physical aggressions and against journalists, sexual violence, harassment of staff and users of Casa de la Mujer, and the burning of the Central Obrera. Urges the State to investigate with a focus on ethnic-racial gender,» said the IACHR in a statement published on its official Twitter account.
It has also called on the demonstrators to avoid any act of violence and on society as a whole to engage in an effective dialogue, after President Luis Arce has already set a date for its celebration in 2024.
In the same vein, Vice President David Choquehuanca has called for unity this Saturday in a press release and has demanded to avoid giving way to «radicals» to generate divisions and conflicts using the census issue. For this reason, he has advocated to respect the result of the polls and its president and has assured that when they attack their president, they attack their people.
