The incidents took place a few blocks from the seat of government, where the leader was appointing a new military command.
Clashes erupted Wednesday, November 13 in the center of the Bolivian capital La Paz between demonstrators supporters of the former head of state Evo Morales and the police. These clashes occurred on the first day of the inauguration of Jeanine Añez, Acting President of the country. It was trying to fill the political void left by the departure of Evo Morales, who has already said he is ready to return for "Appease" the situation.
A group of several hundred people threw projectiles at the police, who fired tear gas at a few blocks from the government headquarters, where the leader was appointing a new military command at the time. an official ceremony.
At least one military vehicle had been deployed in the center of the city, where some 3,000 protesters arrived in the middle of the afternoon from the nearby town of El Alto, favorable to Evo Morales.
Call for a "national dialogue"
At the beginning of the day, the inhabitants had tried to resume a normal life, the buses being back in the streets and almost all the ten lines of cable car crisscrossing again the city, after two days of complete stop. Banks and businesses have reopened, while looting and looting have taken place since Sunday night after the president resigned.
From Mexico City, where he arrived on Tuesday to enjoy political asylum, Evo Morales said he was ready to return to Bolivia to "Appease" the situation. "If my people request it, we are ready to return (in Bolivia) to appease the situation », he said at a press conference. "We'll come back sooner or later", he assured, calling for a "National dialogue" in order to solve the crisis that is shaking his country.
He also refuted the legitimacy of Senator Jeanine Añez, like the growers of coca du Chaparé, the fief of the former president, who called for the "National mobilization". Blockades were still taking place across the country, as in Yapacani, an indigenous village in the Santa Cruz region.
