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Bolivians protest in La Paz against political crisis, as country's interim president Jeanine Anez moved to fill the power vacuum left by the resignation of Evo Morales. IMAGES
La Paz, Mar 18 (EFE).- Thousands of supporters of the government of Bolivian president Luis Arce demonstrated Thursday, claiming that the imprisonment of former interim president Jeanine Añez, two of her former ministers and former military chiefs are not revenge but "justice."In the heart of La Paz, protesters detonated dynamite that prompted shouting against what they consider a "coup d'état" that took place in 2019.As next in line for the top job, Añez took the interim presidency that year after charges of voting fraud in the general election – which were later confirmed by the Organization of American States – led to protests and the resignation and exile of then-president Evo Morales. (Camera: GABRIEL ROMANO/CLAUDIO ÁBREGO /GINA BALDIVIESO). SHOT LIST: SUPPORTERS OF LUIS ARCE’S GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA. SOUND BITES: ALICIA CHURA, AN AYMARA LEADER (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: It was a coup and now we are demanding justice. It is not revenge, it is justice. (02:07-02:14).
Cochabamba/Santa Cruz/La Paz , Mar 15 (EFE).- Tens of thousands of Bolivians took to the streets across the country on Monday to protests against the arrest and detention of former interim president Jeanine Anez on charges of leading the so-called coup d'etat against her socialist predecessor Evo Morales. Añez on Monday was transferred to the Women's Orientation Center in the Obrajes district of La Paz, where she will be held in preventive detention during the ongoing investigation.Añez was transferred from the custody of the Special Crime Fighting Force facility, where she had been detained since Saturday morning, to the Obrajes jail in a van with a heavy contingent of police guards. (Camera: CLAUDIO ÁBREGO/JUAN PABLO ROCA/ GABRIEL ROMANO). SHOT LIST: PROTESTS AGAINST BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT LUIS ARCE'S GOVERNMENT AFTER THE DETENTION OF FORMER INTERIM PRESIDENT JEANINE ANEZ, IN COCHABAMBA, SANTA CRUZ AND LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.
La Paz, Bolivia Dec 11 (EFE / EPA).- After a month without Evo Morales and after living "weeks of terror" by the constant revolts, the Bolivians perceive that calm returns slowly to the streets, although they are divided between those who think it would be a "mistake" to return to the country and those who await their return.(CAMERA: Yolanda Salazar / Martin Alipaz)IMAGES: FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS AND SOUNDBITES FROM FERNANDO, MAURICIO ZAMBRANA, SDENKA DUEÑAS, REGINA HUANCA, AND HUMBERTO CHOQUE.TRANSLATION: FERNANDO: "Call this a democratic government and also constitutional. I think the term is a bit wrong because a coup government doesn't have that term, right?"MAURICIO ZAMBRANA: 1. "A tense calm since the problems have not passed. This dictator continues to make threats from abroad and has us all worried even though there is already normality" 2. "That demonstrates the intentions that this person has of being a tyrant and wanting to continue causing conflicts in the country "SDENKA DUEÑAS: 1. "It has been a week of terror, of not sleeping because of the issue of looting, of the people of the MAS party who was angry and that their way of protesting is being violent and looting, so they have been terrible days" 2. "For now I believe that everything is being pacified. Of course, always with the danger that Evo Morales incites people and causes discomfort from outside, but I believe that there is a tense calm that I hope will become peace"REGINA HUANCA: 1. "We have fought for democracy, and the pacification of Bolivia is being seen, and we have opted for the freedom and peace of Bolivia" 2. "After Evo Morales resigned we have lived a tragedy, the country was all convulsed " 3." In itself I thank President Añez that there is already pacification in Bolivia "HUMBERTO CHOQUE: 1. "The departure of President Evo Morales for us... we see it as a civic-police coup and we believe that there is a political interference of imperialism" 2. "Evo has his country, he has to return to Bolivia, because a simple criminal can be exiled, he doesn't have to go into exile "
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