Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia 'Against the Many Violations to Democracy'

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"Do you think we are ignorant?"

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Eoin Higgins, staff writer 

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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. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine Añez, 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. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's 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.

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"¿Creen que somos ignorantes?": El contundente discurso de una mujer indígena a lo que sucede en Bolivia https://es.rt.com/75lo 

Friday's 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 Añez to step down.  

nonouzi@Gerrrty

Protests against the coup d’etat in #Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marching in support of #EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste

etienneyerovi@yerovietienne

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 Áñez pic.twitter.com/vpx2EEYyWF https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1195389749692792832 …

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Un dron grabó desde el aire una kilométrica columna de manifestantes marchando por varias calles de Cochabamba, Bolivia, en una masiva protesta para exigir la renuncia de Jeanine Áñez

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. @teleSURenglish

Camila@camilateleSUR

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

etienneyerovi@yerovietienne

Bolivia: indigenous people demand the resignation of Jeanine Áñez

Evo Morales supporters protest against the coup in Bolivia and ask that the 'self-proclaimed' president Áñez "resign now." pic.twitter.com/vvNa0AAHBX https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1195410159809581056 …

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Bolivia: indígenas exigen la renuncia de Jeanine Áñez

Partidarios de Evo Morales protestan contra el golpe de Estado en Bolivia y piden que la 'autoproclamada' presidenta Áñez "renuncie ya".

"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as Sonia told Democracy Now! Thursday. "He worked for the people. He didn't rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we're not humans."

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