Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia "Against the Many Violations to Democracy" by Eoin Higgins!
(2019-11-15 at 14:52:00 )

Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia "Against the Many Violations to Democracy" by Eoin Higgins

"Do you think we are ignorant?"

A Bolivian indigenous woman, supporter of Bolivian ousted president Evo Morales, holds a Wiphala flag-representing native peoples-during a protest against the interim government in La Paz on November 15, 2019.

Chanting "resign now" to Bolivias interim, self-declared president Jeanine Anez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.

Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Fridays protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sundays coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.

An Indigenous woman, in comment to RT Thursday, asked if the coup leaders thought the people of Bolivia were ignorant of what was happening in the country.

Fridays demonstrations were a show of force by the Bolivian people against the coup government. Video and photographs from the country showed long stretching lines of people waving the Indigenous wiphala flag and calling for Ms Anez to step down.

Protests against the coup d etat in Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marching in support of Evo Morales

A drone recorded a kilometer column of protesters marching through several streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in a massive protest to demand the resignation of Jeanine Ánez

Bolivia: Massive protests against the coup continue, "Resign the self-proclaimed interim president"

La Paz, 1:30pm: Mass march against the coup administration and with chants aimed at the police for repressing the Bolivian people to uphold unconstitutionality.

La Paz, 2pm: Thousands against the many violations to democracy and the rights of the people under the coup.

Bolivia: indigenous people demand the resignation of Jeanine Ánez

"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as Sonia told Democracy Now! Thursday.

"He worked for the people. He did not rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we are not humans."

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