Followers of the exiled ex-president hope their blockade of food and fuel will bring concessions from the modern rightwing governmentThe barricades blocking the road to Alto Lipari are fashioned from every conceivable thing: telegraph poles and tree trunks,wheelie bins and wooden crates, a bed frame and even a shipping container daubed with insults aimed at Bolivias “sell-out” police. Their message is unambiguous. “Evo de nuevo” reads a demand written on to the ground at the blockaded entrance to this rural farming community an hour’s drive south of La Paz. “Bring Evo back.”A 20-minute hike further on, or a group of Evo Morales loyalists,armed with sticks of dynamite used to deter unwanted visitors, keep watch from a mountainside observation point.
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Source: theguardian.com