(18 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracollo, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
1. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales at the start of a march against the government of President Luis Arce, supporters chanting, UPSOUND (Spanish): "In good time for the march to save Bolivia"
2. Morales during a ceremony at the start of the march, supporters chanting, UPSOUND (Spanish): "the people are upset"
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, former Bolivian President: ++PART OVERLAID SHOT 4++
"Sadly, we have been abandoned by the President (Luis Arce) and Vice President (David Choquehuanca). He betrayed us, and also there has been bad administration and corruption."
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Vila Vila, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
4. Various of march ++MUTE++
BOLIVIA PRESIDENCY
La Paz, Bolivia – 15 September 2024
5. Bolivia President Luis Arce and cabinet members
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Arce, President of Bolivia: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7 & 8++
"Evo (Morales): you have decided to start a march, hunger strike, and national blockade of roads. And you are not doing this for your life, for democracy, or for the economy. That we all know. Instead (you are doing it) for your candidacy that you want to impose by hook or by crook, as you have said."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracollo, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
7. Various of protest
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vila Vila, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
8. Effigy of Morale being set ablaze by Arce supporters
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracollo, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
9. Journalists running as Morales and Arce supporters throw stones at each other
STORYLINE:
Bolivia’s hugely popular and controversial former leftist president, Evo Morales, started on Tuesday a protest march against his bitter political rival, current President Luis Arce.
Morales and his supporters began the so-called “March to Save Bolivia", from the southeast village of Caracollo to Bolivia’s administrative capital of La Paz.
He described the march—85 kilometers (53 miles) by foot along a highway—as a natural expression of protest against Arce’s government’s failure to fix the worsening economic crisis.
On Sunday, President Luis Arce accused Morales on national TV of trying to overthrow him by doing the march.
Morales, who served as Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, has vowed to unleash unrest if he is stopped from running in the August 2025 elections.
Ever since the constitutional court last year barred the charismatic leader from the race, coca cultivators, Indigenous tribes and workers — whom Morales represented during his presidency from 2006 to 2019 — have come to his defense with street protests, marches and road blockades.
Over the past year, the Arce-Morales rift has polarized Bolivia, tainting the country’s politics and creating a sense of turmoil that soldiers sought to seize upon in June in an alleged coup attempt.
Although Arce was Morales’ former economy minister and his candidate in Bolivia’s 2020 elections, the erstwhile allies began vying for power after Morales’ return from exile and political comeback the same year.
Bolivia’s political stagnation and economic quagmire—with fuel scarce and the central bank dangerously short on foreign currency reserves—have caused some Bolivians once outraged over Morales’ strongman tendencies to grow nostalgic for the ex-leader’s transformation of the economy and remarkable reduction of poverty.
AP video by Carlos Guerrero
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