A motorcyclist lost his life while trying to pass a checkpoint set up by opposition civilian groups maintaining a strike in Santa Cruz with the support of department governor Luis Fernando Camacho.
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The incident was reported this Wednesday when a motorcyclist was struck in the neck by a cable in the Fifth Ring of Santa Cruz city, killing him.
The death comes as Santa Cruz’s opposition to a national census went with caution in state institutions, ending the 19-day indefinite strike for the census.
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A motorcyclist dies as a rope crossing the road in a blockade cuts his neck
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The Bolivian government announced this Wednesday that the census would be conducted in March 2024, according to a technical commission created for the purpose, but the unemployed opposition movement, which calls for it to be brought forward by 2023, rejected the official proposal. .
Bolivian officials accused the government of Santa Cruz of boycotting the work of the Technical Table of Trinidad (Beni), which concluded yesterday that the census could be brought forward to March or April 2024, but not in the same year as the 2023 Interinstitutional Committee. As per demand by
The motorcyclist was surprised by a white coaxial cable running from one end to the other between two public light poles. In the collision, he fell to the ground along with his companions, who were injured.
Police said they have proceeded to arrest five people who were obstructing circulation with coaxial cables. This matter is under investigation.
