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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 17 January 2018

In brief: Bolivia

Bolivia: A department-wide strike has taken place in Cochabamba department calling for the complete repeal of the new national criminal code, which was approved by the national legislature in December 2017 and will take effect in June 2019. Protesters are also calling on the government led by President Evo Morales to respect the result of the February 2016 public referendum which rejected the idea of changing the 2009 constitution to allow for indefinite presidential re-election. Despite losing the referendum President Morales has indicated his intention of running again in 2019 – bolstered by a decision announced last month by the plurinational constitutional court (TCP) to lift the ban. As well as Cochabamba, there were also smaller protests in La Paz, Chuquisaca and Oruro departments yesterday (16 January) while on 12 January a department-wide strike was staged in Santa Cruz. The protests come despite President Morales’s announcement earlier this month that two of the most contentious articles in the new penal code – 205 and 137, which relate to malpractice in the medical and transport sectors – would be repealed. On 15 January Morales said that he would set a period of a year for all the articles of the new code to be debated, allowing for the possibility of modifying them.

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