[News] Bolivia: Police Shoot Anti-Coup Protesters in El Alto

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  Bolivia: Police Shoot Anti-Coup Protesters in El Alto

November 12, 2019
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Bolivian Police on Monday harshly repressed the El Alto people who 
took to the streets to protest against the coup which forced the 
resignation of Evo Morales 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/World-Leaders-Organizations-Condemn-Coup-Against-Evo-Morales-in-Bolivia-20191110-0008.html>. 
Images uploaded on social media attest to the existence of several 
injured; however, there are no official figures on the number of victims.

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“The police repress with firearms to cause deaths and injuries in El 
Alto. My solidarity with those innocent victims, including a girl, 
and the El Alto's heroic people who is defending democracy,” former 
president Morales tweeted.​​​​​

Over the last week, far-right groups have staged acts of aggression 
against the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) authorities and politicians.

Selective burning of houses and beatings against Evo's supporters, 
however, have not been reported in a timely manner by international and 
local media.

In this regard, for example, in Argentina, where Mauricio Macri will 
remain in the presidency until December, the Press Workers Union 
(SiPREBA) on Monday denounced that the National Radio direction 
prohibited its journalists from writing or speaking about the existence 
of a coup in Bolivia.

*"Urgent. The Army is in the streets. This is the reaction of El Alto 
people who is living the coup d'etat in Boliva."*

Nevertheless, according to social net videos posted on Monday, it is 
known that at least six citizens were shot, around 30 people were 
injured and a girl was rescued by anti-coup protesters in El Alto.

Indigenous leaders and social activists denounced that the Police have 
joined the coup, which is being supported by former commander Yuri 
Calderon who publicly threatened to arrest MAS supporters.

“The first thing we should do is organize groups in all cities. We are 
going to stop all the leaders who are causing anxiety,” Calderón said at 
the time of submitting his resignation on Sunday, when he “suggested” 
Evo Morales to leave the presidency.

*"Terror in Bolivia. Last night artillery helicopters shot at the 
indigenous people in La Paz. El Alto communities reported 6 dead and 
around 30 injured. This is silenced by mainstream media."*

Morales’s Defense Minister Javier Zavaleta on Monday presented his 
resignation and denounced violent actions that the mutinous security 
forces are carrying out.

"Bullets are neither the answer nor the solution to a problem," Zavaleta 
said and explained that he never ordered the use of military force 
against the population.

"We never gave an order for our soldiers to wield a weapon against the 
people... The State we built was a State in which the military defends 
the Homeland with the people and never against them."

"A political issue is not resolved by increasing the caliber of 
repression," said Zavaleta addressing one of the leaders of the Bolivian 
right, former presidential candidate Carlos Mesa.

On Monday night, Mexico’s President Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador (AMLO) 
sent a plane to pick Morales, who had been granted political asylum a 
few hours earlier.

The MAS leader arrived safely to Mexico on Tuesday at 8:30 am (local time).

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