On November 8, various sectors are calling for an indefinite strike. | Photo: El Pueblo

La Paz, November 2 (RHC)-- The Bolivian government has denounced the intention of opposition groups to destabilize the country by calling for a national strike on November 8.

"These threats to destabilize the country or to generate economic damage to Bolivia will undoubtedly be evaluated by the Bolivian people at the appropriate time when they have to have an expression on the behavior assumed by the opposition sectors to the Government," said the Bolivian presidential spokesman, Jorge Richter.

Richter added that the Government is committed to dialogue and that the measures that exert pressure interfere in "the economic reactivation, the reconstruction of the country's productive spaces, so these mobilizations or stoppages are nothing but political," he said.

Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca said on his Twitter account: "Racism, division, hatred, individualism and war will be replaced by brotherhood, unity, harmony and peace.  Our Wiphala summons us to defend life.  Ama sua, Ama llulla, Ama qhilla, Ama llunk'u."

For her part, the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, indicated that the sectors promoting the strike are those who have their lives economically solved and that is not the reality, "of the majority of the Bolivian population, that is not the economic reality of the majority of Bolivian families who live on what they earn a day, that depending on the work they have a day they bring bread to the tables of their families," she said.

The Government announced the withdrawal of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of the draft Law Against the Legitimization of Illicit Profits in mid-October.  For this reason, several sectors called for an indefinite strike as of November 8th.

This strike, according to the statements of the opposition, seeks to repeal Law 1386, of the National Strategy for the Fight against the Legitimization of Illicit Gains and the Financing of Terrorism, which is in force and is considered by these sectors as the original norm of the deposed bill.