by Eoin Higgins, The Anti Media:
(CD) — Unrest continued in Bolivia Thursday as protests against the right-wing coup that unseated democratically-elected President Evo Morales on Sunday and the anti-Indigenous ideology behind it entered their fourth day.
Demonstrators filled the streets of the Bolivian capitol, La Paz, waving the indigenous wiphala flag and registering their disapproval of the new interim government of Jeanine Añez.
El Alto, 2:30pm: Many contingents make the long walk towards La Paz which is down hill and has people travelling 25km or more as there is no public transportation, no cars can make it past barricades, and the teleferico is out of service. Video is mine. pic.twitter.com/gwiHeYkXGZ
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) November 14, 2019
El Alto, 2:45pm: A new contingent goes by every few minutes, headed toward La Paz. They're denouncing the unconstitutional self-proclamation of the senator and her faux government. pic.twitter.com/jmxymV2nuB
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) November 14, 2019
“We don’t want any dictators,” protester Paulina Luchampe told Time Magazine on Wednesday. “This lady has stepped on us—that’s why we’re so mad.”
#Bolivia anti-coup protests continue. #NoAlGolpe (foto h/t @jmkarg) pic.twitter.com/rhJUe1858O
— Eva Golinger (@evagolinger) November 14, 2019
New president Añez has come under criticism for a history of comments promoting an extreme right-wing Christian theocratic ideology, including referring to the country’s Indigenous population as “satanic.”
Members of the country’s police and military forces, whose support for the coup over the weekend precipitated Morales’ resignation Sunday, have been photographed cutting the wiphala flag off of their uniforms.
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