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Bolivian activists call on coup regime to grant safe passage to socialist ministers trapped in Mexican embassy
The seven former ministers trapped in the Mexican embassy in Bolivia

BOLIVIAN activists are calling for friends abroad to raise the plight of victims of the far-right coup in the country who remain holed up in the Mexican embassy seven months later.

The Campaign for the Seven says that the Jeanine Anez regime, established following the military overthrow of the just re-elected Evo Morales government last November, is still refusing safe passage to Mexico for seven former ministers in Morales’s cabinet who sought refuge there.

Former ministers of the presidency Juan Ramon Quintana, culture and tourism Vilma Alanoca, justice Hector Arce Zaconeta, defence Javier Zabaleta Lopez, minister of government Hugo Moldiz Mercado, information technology agency head Nicolas Laguna and former Oruro department governor Victor Hugo Vasquez remain trapped in the embassy.

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