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<h1 class="reader-title">Bolivia: Police Shoot Anti-Coup
Protesters in El Alto</h1>
November 12, 2019</div>
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<p>Bolivian Police on Monday harshly repressed the El Alto
people who took to the streets to protest against the
coup which forced <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/World-Leaders-Organizations-Condemn-Coup-Against-Evo-Morales-in-Bolivia-20191110-0008.html"
target="_blank">the resignation of Evo Morales</a>.
Images uploaded on social media attest to the existence
of several injured; however, there are no official
figures on the number of victims.</p>
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<p>“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.</p>
<p>Over the last week, far-right groups have staged acts
of aggression against the Movement Towards Socialism
(MAS) authorities and politicians.</p>
<p>Selective burning of houses and beatings against Evo's
supporters, however, have not been reported in a timely
manner by international and local media.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>"Urgent. The Army is in the streets. This is
the reaction of El Alto people who is living the coup
d'etat in Boliva."</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p><strong>"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."</strong></p>
<p>Morales’s Defense Minister Javier Zavaleta on Monday
presented his resignation and denounced violent
actions that the mutinous security forces are carrying
out.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The MAS leader arrived safely to Mexico on Tuesday at
8:30 am (local time).</p>
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