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Luis Arce
TRADE unions and indigenous interests in Bolivia have come together to form an alliance to defend the progressive government of President Luis Arce from US-backed interventions.
The People’s High Command was established yesterday with its founding document signed by the Mineworkers Union, Gas & Oil Workers Union, trade union confederations CIDOB and CSUTCB and the indigenous Interculturales group.
The new aggregation vowed to defend the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS)-led government from any future US interference against the interests of the Bolivian people, the plunder of natural resources, and any attempt to destabilise the country via political or economic means.
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