{"id":4233,"date":"2019-11-18T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:20:01","slug":"protests-in-bolivia-after-5-demonstrators-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4233","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Bolivia after 5 demonstrators shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>La Paz,\u00a0 <\/strong>Protests continued in Bolivia on Friday after five demonstrators were shot dead in clashes with police as supporters of exiled former President Evo Morales gathered in a central town.<\/p>\n<p>The five protesters were shot during a confrontation with Bolivian police and troops outside the city of Cochabamba, Nelson Cox, a representative of the Ombudsman&#8217;s Office, told Efe news. At least 22 others were wounded in the clash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"playstream_out\" class=\"playstream_out\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"ad_container\">He blamed security forces for a &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; response to a group of cocoa growers marching toward Cochabamba for a protest against the self-proclaimed interim government led by Senator Jeanine Anez.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Bolivian National Police said the victims were killed after shots were fired by members of the protest march.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that officers were attacked with &#8220;lethal weapons and improvised firearms at Huayllani bridge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing protests in Bolivia broke out after the October 20 elections in which Morales was re-elected for his fourth consecutive term amid allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Morales resigned on November 10 and flew to Mexico the next day for political asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Anez took over as the interim leader of Bolivia, warning Morales that he faced electoral fraud and corruption allegations and that justice awaits him if he returned home.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Friday&#8217;s violence, Morales pleaded with police and soldiers to &#8220;halt the massacre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, in capital La Paz and the neighbouring city of El Alto, thousands of supporters of Morales&#8217; leftist MAS party took to the streets again.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports of the supporters clashing with the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Paz,\u00a0 Protests continued in Bolivia on Friday after five demonstrators were shot dead in clashes with police as supporters of exiled former President Evo Morales gathered in a central town. The five protesters were shot during a confrontation with Bolivian police and troops outside the city of Cochabamba, Nelson Cox, a representative of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}