(23 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Alto, Bolivia – 22 September 2024
1. Various of Bolivia’s pro-government supporters and clashing with protesters loyal to former president Evo Morales
2. Woman runs as people clash
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Benita Cruz, Morales supporter:
"It is very sad that this government does not pay attention to its conscience. It hurts me; I feel angry that these things are happening. How can this government not be put on their conscience? They are repressing the poor and the most humble people."
4. Police firing tear gas
5. People clashing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Achica Arriba, Bolivia – 22 September 2024
6. Various of march led by Evo Morales ++MUTE++
7. Protesters chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "Evo is not alone"
8. Women marching
9. SOUNDIBTE (Spanish) Marta Mamani, Morales supporter:
"Sixth day of the march here, holding on until we reach the city of La Paz, we want to tell the government that it has had seven days to solve this massive problem that we have in the country."
10. Women marching
STORYLINE:
Bolivia’s pro-government supporters and security forces violently confronted protesters loyal to former president Evo Morales in a street melee Sunday, the second such violent escalation this week as fears grew of further unrest in the Andean nation.
The protesters and counter-protesters hurled firecrackers, small dynamite bombs, and stones at each other across a dusty sprawl in the city of El Alto overlooking Bolivia’s capital, while riot police unleashed tear gas into the crowds.
The standoff — erupting while thousands of Bolivians supporting Morales continued a weeklong 190-kilometer (118-mile) march to the capital of La Paz — spoke to the depth of the schism in Bolivian politics ahead of next year’s much-anticipated presidential election.
Morales and his former economy minister-turned-bitter-rival, current President Luis Arce, are vying to lead the long-dominant socialist party into the 2025 vote.
Mobilized by Morales, bound together by misery over Bolivia’s economic meltdown and outraged by President Arce’s efforts to block the candidacy of their polarizing and popular former leader, the marchers pan to continue marching to La Paz in the coming days.
Both sides blamed each other for the violence.
AP Video Carlos Guerrero
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