Bolivia: Polemic $34m presidential palace sparks protests in La Paz
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Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated the newly-built ‘Great House of the People’ in La Paz on Thursday, with the building set to serve as the government headquarters despite sparking controversy and protests.
Many protesters also sought to remind Morales that he had been defeated in a 2016 referendum which would have allowed him to run for a third consecutive term.
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Change of Guards at Presidential Palace in La Paz, Bolivia
Change of Guards at Presidential Palace in La Paz, Bolivia on November 14, 2015
Bolivia's Interim President Jeanine Anez Attends Ceremony at Bolivia's Presidential Palace
▶️ Bolivia's Interim President Jeanine Anez takes part in a ceremony with the police at the Presidential Palace, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, November 13.
???? Anez was an opposition leader in the Senate before declaring herself the country's interim president following the resignation of former President Evo Morales.
Clashes broke out in the streets of the Bolivian capital Tuesday evening after her announcement while angry Morales' supporters tried to reach the Congress building screaming, She must quit!
Morales, who sought to transform Bolivia as its first indigenous president, flew to exile in Mexico on Tuesday as thousands of his supporters clamored for his return in the streets of the Bolivian capital.
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BOLIVIA: FUNERAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT HERNAN SILES ZUAZO
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Former Bolivian president Hernan Siles Zuazo has been buried in the Bolivian capital of La Paz.
Eighty-three-year-old Siles Zuazo died Tuesday in Montevideo, Uruguay after a long illness.
He was the leader of the bloody 1952 revolution and one of Bolivia's most important political figures.
The coffin of former Bolivian president Hernan Siles Zuazo arrived from Uruguay Thursday.
It was flown to the Bolivian capital of La Paz on a military plane.
The coffin was received at El Alto airport by Siles widow, daughters and government officials.
Hernan Siles Zuazo passed away Tuesday night in Montevideo after a long illness. He was 83- years-old.
Siles was one of Bolivia's most important political figures.
He was president of Bolivia from 1965 to 1960 and from 1982 to 1985.
Siles was considered one of the pillars of Bolivia's democracy, since his presidency in 1982 restored democracy after nearly 18 years of harsh military rule.
He was also one of the leaders of the bloody 1952 revolution that nationalized privately-owned mines, enacted land reform and universal suffrage legislation.
He spent many years in exile in Argentina and Chile.
After leaving office in 1985, Siles moved to Uruguay to live with one of his daughters.
His body was taken to the presidential palace where scores of mourners gathered to pay their last respects.
The former president was considered one of Bolivia's elder statesman- a believer in social justice and the democratic process.
He was buried in La Paz on Friday.
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Police in Bolivia desert posts, join demonstrations
Police guarding the presidential palace in Bolivia have abandoned their posts, in the latest blow to President Evo Morales as he tries to calm weeks of unrest. At least three people have been killed in protests focused on allegations of fraud in the October 20th election. Police in several cities have now joined the marchers.
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Bible vs indigenous beliefs at issue in Bolivia
(24 Jan 2020) In Bolivia, many believers enjoy a symbiotic relationship between the Catholic and Andean belief systems. A relationship some fear is being questioned by the conservative, Evangelical interim president Jeanine Añez.
Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia's new interim president delivered an emphatic message two days after Evo Morales resigned and fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country's indigenous religious beliefs like never before.
The Bible has returned to the palace, bellowed Jeanine Añez as she walked amid a horde of allies and news media cameras into the presidential palace where Morales had jettisoned the bible from official government ceremonies and replaced with acts honoring the Andean earth deity called the Pachamama. The conservative evangelical senator, from a region where people often scoff at Pachamama beliefs, thrust the Bible above her head and flashed a beaming smile.
While Bolivians of all walks of life are deeply divided on Morales' legacy, his replacement, a lawyer and opposition leader who wants to make the Bible front and center in public life, is reigniting deep-rooted class and racial divisions at a time of great uncertainty in the Andean nation, where 6 in 10 identify as descendants of native peoples.
Jose Saravia, a Catholic from La Paz who was visiting the capital with his family to have a doll of baby Jesus blessed, said: The interim president wants to forget her roots or she has forgotten her roots, or her parents didn't plant in her, didn't tell her where we come from and who we are. It's the same as 500 years ago when the Spanish came and the first thing they showed the indigenous people was the Bible. It seems to me like the same thing is happening again. The previous presidency said we were decolonizing.
Others welcome Añez's message.
Karina Ortiz Justiniano, a Catholic from Trinidad, said: We have our identity and that's what this man (Morales) didn't know how to respect. He played way too much with the concept of equality for the poor, their rights, equality among the indigenous people when in reality it is not a problem here. It was never a problem for the indigenous people because each person is in his or her place and we respect each other.
David Mendoza Salazar, Bolivian sociologist and expert in indigenous culture, explains why Bolivians feel strongly about the place of Pachamama in religion: In this recent time in the new government, it doesn't seem right to me from my point of view sociologically and anthropologically to bring back the Bible and the image of Christ to the presidential palace where an indigenous man was and say, ok, the Pachamama was here and ancient sacred objects were but no more, now comes Christ and now comes the Bible. That was like returning to the era of Colonization.
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Bolivia: Pro-Morales indigenous people march against interim president Anez in La Paz
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Thousands of indigenous supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales marched in La Paz on Wednesday, voicing their support for Morales and denouncing a coup after Senate leader Jeanine Anez declared herself interim president on Tuesday.
Footage shows protesters marching through the streets of the Bolivian capital carrying Bolivian and Whipalas flags while chanting in favour of Morales and against opposition politicians Carlos Mesa, Fernando Camacho, and Anez.
They have carried out a coup d'etat against us, but not only that, last night Ms. Jeanine Anez became the self-proclaimed president. We are against that right now. We simply want to ask for her resignation at once said Jaime Alquizalet, a demonstrator.
As of last night, we are living like in dictatorship times. They are hunting our leaders, they are hunting... It's very likely that they'll see me and want my head too, he said.
Another protester, Yolanda Albarrazin, said the divisions are being caused by racism. They persecute us, as Bolivians, those from El Alto. They discriminate against us because we come from El Alto and La Paz. They call us 'collas' [term for highland indigenous groups]. They discriminate against those who wear skirts [referring to indigenous women] and we won't allow it to happen, she said.
On Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation, following weeks of unrest in the wake of the disputed October 20 presidential election. Morales said he had received threats from opposition leaders and was eventually forced by the country's military to step down.
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Ahmadinjejad meets Bolivian President Morales, Armenian President Sargsyan
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1. Evo Morales, Bolivian President, getting out of car and embracing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2. Cutaway of photographers
3. Wide of guard of honour ceremony
4. Mid of Morales and Ahmadinejad standing on platform
5. Wide of honour guards playing national anthems
6. Ahmadinejad and Morales walking towards honour guard
7. Wide of ceremony
8. Ahmadinejad and Morales walking past honour guards
9. Morales greeting Iranian officials
10. Wide of Morales and Ahmadinejad in meeting room
11. Pan from Ahmadinejad to Morales
12. Mid of meeting
13. Tigran Sargsyan, Armenian Prime Minister walks into meeting room towards President Ahmadinejad
14. Sargysan shakes hands with Ahmadinejad
15. Pull out from handshake
16. Wide of cameras
17. Mid of Sargsyan in meeting room
18. Mid of Ahmadinejad
19. Wide of meeting
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which are expected to focus on energy, industry and trade.
Energy-rich Bolivia and Iran established relations in September 2007 when Ahmadinejad made an official trip to La Paz to sign trade and energy accords.
Like his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Morales has cultivated increasingly closer relations with Tehran which has raised concerns in Washington.
Many western states suspect Iran of having a nuclear weapons programme which it denies.
Morales intends to encourage Iran to establish a stronger presence in Bolivia and plans to sign cooperation agreements on a number of issues, including the transfer of Iranian technology to the South American nation.
This is Morales' second visit to Iran over the past two years. The two countries will be discussing the details of a plan for 287 (m) million US dollars in Iranian investment in Bolivia.
Less than two months ago, Tehran extended La Paz a credit line of about 287 (m) million dollars as development aid, particularly for mineral exploration and the textile industry.
Tehran and La Paz are also expected to sign agreements on cooperation in cement production, industrial machinery, and food industry projects.
In 2007, President Ahmadinejad became the first Iranian leader to visit Bolivia. During the trip, the two countries signed an agreement on joint projects worth 1.1 (b) billion dollars over the next five years.
In a separate meeting on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad met with Tigran Sargsyan, Armenia's Prime Minister.
Sargsyan arrived in Iran on Monday for a two-day visit to meet with senior Iranian officials, seeking a deepening of relations between the two neighbouring countries.
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볼리비아의 수도는 라파스. 라파스는 더 피스 즉 평화라는 뜻인데 세계에서 가장 높은 곳에 위치한 수도라더니 해발 3632미터 고도에 위치한 도시답게 과연 집들이 산 위에 다닥다닥 붙어있는 경관이 내 눈길을 끌었다. 라파스 시가지에 들어서서 가장 먼저 찾게 된 곳은 대통령의 관저가 있는 무리요 광장. 광장에선 때마침 군악대와 근위병의 퍼레이드가 벌어지고 있었다. 얼굴은 인디오의 모습인데 붉은 제복을 차려입고 당당하게 행진하는 모습은 의외였고 여행의 시작부터 내 가슴을 뛰게 했다. “지금 보신 것은 (볼리비아 근위병의) 전통 교대식이며 육군 콜로라도스 부대가 대통령 친위병 교대식을 하는 상황입니다. 매월 첫째 주 일요일에 이 행사를 하도록 법적으로 규정되어 있습니다.” 대통령 친위병의 교대식은 내겐 좀 낯선 몸짓으로 진행되어 흥미로웠다. 힘의 상징인 칼을 인계받고 근위병들은 한 달간 새로운 임무를 부여받는다. 대통령을 실제로 보호한다기보다는 상징적인 의미를 지닌 병사들로 보였는데 그 모습에선 이곳을 지배했던 유럽제국주의의 영향과 독립 후 희망찬 미래를 건설하고픈 볼리비아의 기상이 함께 느껴져 묘한 기분이 들었다.
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The capital of Bolivia, La Paz. Rafa seuneun more like a piece that is inde means city of peace, located at the highest elevation of 3632 meters radeoni also located in this world scenery really stuck dadak dadak houses on the mountain attracted my attention. La Paz city where the most common during the first herd that has been found is the official residence of President John Square. In the square there is a parade of military bands just as happened with the guard. Face look marching proudly dressed up in a red uniform appearance of inde Indio was pounding in my chest since the beginning of the trip was unexpected. It is now seen (Bolivia Guardsman's) tradition alternating, and the situation in which the army Colorado's presidential guard troops alternating disease. Monthly are legally required to the event on the first Sunday, was to guard the president alternating disease progression is interesting to me as a little strange gestures. Take over the symbol of the sword of the guard force one months were granted a new mission. In fact, rather than protecting the president it was one of the soldiers with a view to the symbolic impact of European imperialism In the figure who ruled here after independence and feel with the spirit of building a hopeful future in Bolivia hagopeun heard a strange feeling.
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La capital de Bolivia, La Paz. Rafa seuneun más como una pieza que es inde significa ciudad de la paz, que se encuentra en la elevación más alta de 3.632 metros radeoni también encuentran en este escenario mundial realmente atascados Dadak Dadak casas en la montaña atrajo mi atención. La ciudad de La Paz, donde el más común durante la primera manada que se ha encontrado es la residencia oficial del presidente John Square.
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Bolivia: Interim president Anez calls for general election in first national address
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The newly-elected interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Anez called for fresh elections in her first address to the nation in the government palace in La Paz on Wednesday while supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales were met with tear gas as they took to the streets of the Capital to protest.
This presidential mandate is of a strictly provisional nature and will have two fundamental objectives, namely the repeal of the unconstitutional sentence 0034/2017 of November 28, 2017 and the call for general elections in the shortest possible time, said Anez who added that the power transition in Bolivia had not been a coup.
On Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation, following weeks of unrest in the wake of the disputed October 20 presidential election. Morales said he had received threats from opposition leaders and was eventually forced by the country's military to step down.
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New cabinet is sworn in
(24 Jan 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of new ministers waiting for ceremony at Presidential Palace
2. Close up Walter Villaroel, Bolivian mining minister
3. Bolivian President Evo Morales arriving at ceremony
4. Wide of new ministers
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, Bolivian President:
Dear Ministers, I want to ask you personally and on behalf of the Bolivian people, that in this government, in its portfolio, there should be zero corruption.
6. Wide of ministers applauding
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, Bolivian President:
I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, we have the great opportunity to change Bolivia. I don't want to miss this opportunity to put together again the unity of the Bolivian people.
8. Media
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, Bolivian President:
Ministers, do you commit yourselves and swear in the name of God and the Country and for the comrades who gave their lives for the political constitution of the State, which is the Law of the Republic?
10. Wide of ministers shouting Yes
11. Ministers applauding after being declared ministers
12. Wide of ceremony
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Choquehuanca, New Foreign Minister:
Ayaya (in Aymara 'long life') brothers to you who are going to boost this change process. A strong Ayaya brothers. Ayaya brothers (crowd responding 'Ayaya'), Ayaya Evo Morales, Ayaya Bartolina Sisa
14. Ministers responding to the Ayaya salute.
15. Media
16. Evo Morales hugging Mining Minister Walter Villaroel
17. Close up Evo Morales hugging Justice Minister Casimira Rodriguez
18. President Evo Morales leaving ceremony
19. Wide of Ritz Hotel La Paz
20. Hugo Chavez walking out from hotel Ritz
21. Hugo Chavez waving to crowd in front of Ritz Hotel
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela:
I am going to discuss with Evo (Morales) right now what we discussed in the last meeting we had at the presidential residence of Brasilia four days ago. We are walking towards the creation of the Bank of the South because we want to walk towards a second independence.
23. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holding Bolivian baby
STORYLINE:
President Evo Morales appointed a Marxist journalist to drive Bolivia's energy policy and a street protest leader to lead the new Ministry of Water on Monday as he announced his 16-member cabinet - a mix of Indians, middle-class intellectuals and union leaders that should keep some of his toughest potential critics inside his camp.
Morales won the presidency by a landslide after promising to bring the poor Andean nation's natural resources under state control, fight corruption
and end centuries-long discrimination against the Indian majority.
Before his cabinet was sworn in, he reminded them of their citizens' high expectations.
I want to ask you personally that this government have zero corruption, zero bureaucracy, Morales said.
The appointment of Andres Soliz Rada as Minister of Hydrocarbons could signal a tough fight for the multinational gas and oil companies operating in Bolivia.
A lawyer and former member of Congress who fiercely defended Bolivia's natural resources as a newspaper reporter, Soliz Rada will be in charge of renegotiating energy contracts so that Bolivia's state petroleum company has majority control and a significantly higher share of the profits.
The new post of Minister of Water will be held by Abel Mamani, a radical civic leader in the slum city of El Alto who brought down two previous
presidents with violent street protests and defeated a Bechtel Corp. subsidiary's plan to provide privatised water at steeply higher rates.
Morales also named a mining union chief to lead the Mining Ministry, and appointed three women cabinet members.
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Reaction to Morales victory in recall referendum
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La Paz
1. Wide of OAS (Organisation of American States) news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Stein, OAS mission leader and former Guatemalan Vice President:
Luckily the concerns about the possibility that this referendum could have been sabotaged and some hints, with a certain credibility, that there could be intents to take with violence some local electoral courts, haven't happened in the end. The vision of a political disaster during the referendum did not happen, the contrary happened.
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Stein, OAS mission leader and former Guatemalan Vice President:
Bolivian people are demanding that their political leaders sit down and find agreements between them. I believe this is the most eloquent message that Bolivians are sending to their politicians.
5. Wide of news conference
Cochabamba
6. Wide of governor palace in Cochabamba
7. Security around governor palace
8. Establishing shot of Manfred Reyes Diaz
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Manfred Reyes Diaz, Cochabamba Governor:
The future of Bolivia is uncertain due to the influence of foreign forces such as Venezuela. There is uncertainty about what could happen in Bolivia.
10. Exterior of governor palace
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Manfred Reyes Diaz, Cochabamba Governor:
There was no result which served the interests of bolivia in this referendum. The president has flexed his political muscle. He has won, evidently, but today he is not the president of Bolivia, he is president of western Bolivia. The rest of Bolivia has denied him.
12. Reyes Diaz walking up stairs
La Paz
13. Exterior of Bolivian Presidential palace
14. Woman wearing traditional indigenous outfit selling newspapers on a street
15. Newspapers headline showing results
16. Close up of newspaper
17. Zoom out of newspaper headlines
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Salome Vera, Vox Pop, La Paz resident:
We hope for Bolivia that from now on the situation gets calmer and the relationship between the country and the eastern provinces gets better.
19. People carrying newspapers
20. Man selling newspapers
STORYLINE
The leader of the Organisation of American States (OAS) observers' mission to Bolivia's referendum confirmed on Monday that Sunday's vote was carried out without problems or sabotage.
The vision of a political disaster during the referendum did not happen, said Eduardo Stein.
He added that Bolivian people are demanding that their political leaders sit down and find agreements between them. I believe this is the most eloquent message that Bolivians are sending to their politicians.
The bold gamble by President Evo Morales to break a political deadlock and re-energise his leftist revolution paid off as Bolivia's voters resoundingly endorsed him in a recall referendum.
More than 63 percent of voters in this bitterly divided Andean nation ratified the mandate of Bolivia's first indigenous leader and his vice president, Alvaro Garcia, in Sunday's vote, according to partial unofficial results.
Eight of the country's nine governors also were subject to recall, and two Morales foes were among the three ousted, according to a private tally of votes from 1,000 of the country's 22,700 polling stations.
Morales sought the referendum to try to topple governors who have frustrated his bid to improve the plight of Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority, which is concentrated in the country's barren western highlands.
His leftist agenda has met with bitter opposition in the landlocked country's unabashedly capitalistic east, where protesters who accuse him of being a lackey of Venezuelan President Hugo +Chavez blockaded airports last week to keep Morales and his ministers from visiting.
La Paz residents reacted on Monday.
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Bolivian protestors taunt the police (La Paz, Bolivia)
Near the Obelisk downtown. Police have walled off all entrances to Plaza Murillo, where the legislature and the Casa del Pueblo is, for several blocks before the square.
Undoubtedly, businesses will not be compensated.
Nov. 16. 2019
Indigenous people hold vigil in support of Bolivian President Morales | AFP
As protests continue across Bolivia over disputed recent elections, rural indigenous communities and miners maintain an around-the-clock vigil in La Paz in support of President Evo Morales, who opponents accuse of fraudulently claiming victory in the October 20 vote.
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Ahmadinejad in La Paz
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinjad visited Bolivia on June 19th, 2012. After a meeting with Bolivian president Evo Morales, he leaves the presidential palace at Plaza Murillo by car.
Bolivia: Thousands protest interim government in capital
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Mass demonstrations in support of Bolivian former president Evo Morales and against his successor Jeanine Añez hit the capital La Paz on Monday.
The march was organised by the Ponchos Rojos, the Bartolina Sisa and coca farmers from the Yungas and groups from El Alto.
Footage shows demonstrators waving Whipalas and Bolivian flags and chanting slogans against Añez.
One demonstrators said the interim president should resign or they would resort to the ultimate consequences. Morales' departure and Anez’s recognition by the senate as the new president increased tensions between supporters and opponents of the former indigenous leader.
According to reports, the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB), the European Union and the UN special envoy Jean Arnault summoned the government, political parties and representatives of civil society for a dialogue on Monday in order to bring calm to the country.
Earlier this month, Evo Morales announced his resignation after several weeks of protests over disputed presidential elections.
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Bolivia unrest: Interim president signs election law
Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez has signed legislation paving the way for new elections - that bars former President Evo Morales from running.
The legislation had been approved by the National Assembly the day before.
A wave of violent protests after disputed election results forced Morales to step down two weeks ago, killing more than 30 people in the unrest.
Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports from La Paz, Bolivia.
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Bolivia: La Paz marches to demand respect for 2016 term-limit referendum
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets on La Paz on Monday over the perceived failure of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to implement the results of the 2016 constitutional referendum, demanding leading members of the body resign.
The demonstrators burned mock coffins bearing the faces of Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, who sought to extend the limit to three consecutive terms in the referendum.
The referendum was voted down by a margin of just 2.58 percent.
The TSE then ruled in 2017 that there would be no term limits on public office, effectively allowing Morales to run for a fourth time since his first stint in office came before the introduction of the 2009 constitution.
We do not want it to be like it is today in Venezuela, we do not want it to be like what happened Cuba. We want a free Bolivia, said Valentina Fernandez, a protester.
Elections are due to be held in Bolivia on October 20, 2019 and as it stands, Morales and Linera will be standing for the Movement for Socialism (MAS).
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Pumari, Camacho y Eduardo León dentro de Palacio de Gobierno dejando la carta
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Protest continues in Bolivia as palace tour reveals expense
(14 Nov 2019) Supporters of ousted Bolivian president Evo Morales marched through the streets of La Paz Thursday yelling at police and shouting now yes, civil war.
Bolivia's first indigenous president resigned on Sunday at military prompting, following massive nationwide protests over suspected vote-rigging in an Oct. 20 election in which he claimed to have won a fourth term in office.
An Organization of American States audit of the vote found widespread irregularities.
Much of the opposition to Morales sprang from his refusal to accept a referendum that would have forbidden him from running for a new term.
Members of the media were treated to a tour of what had been Morale's private quarters inside the presidential palace.
The 28 floor palace includes a heliport, a Jacuzzi, massage rooms and a gymnasium.
Named the House of the People, opposition party members refer to the building as Evo's palace.
This costs over 2 or 3 million dollars (US dollars), said Bolivia's new Minister of Communication, Roxana Lizarraga about the apartment which takes up one full floor of the building.
The presidential palace was inaugurated in June of 2018 and cost South America's poorest nation just over 34 million US dollars.
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