The initiative was inaugurated this year and will occur every first Sunday of September as part of Act 150, recalled the president during a pause in a walk from the Residence of St George to Palacio Quemado, about three kilometers.

Morales explained that the event, which is already being practised for years in Cochabamba (center), also aims to reduce pollution levels.

The leader returned from Plaza Murillo to the presidential residence (another three kilometers), accompanied by Vice President Alvaro Garcia, on a bicycle, and the governor of La Paz, César Cocarico, among other authorities, reported Prensa Latina. “Let children and young people take over the avenues for sports, but it is also a day when everyone can live with less environmental pollution, that’s what it’s all about, and why I am participating,” he said.

According to the National Training Coordinator of the League of Environmental Defense, Edwin Alvarado, the law offers a space for government agencies, private educational institutions, civil society and the armed forces to carry out educational activities.

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