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Pro-government supporters and security forces in Bolivia clashed Sunday with protesters loyal to former President Evo Morales.
Pro-government supporters and security forces in Bolivia clashed Sunday with protesters loyal to former President Evo Morales.
Rival groups threw firecrackers, homemade explosives and rocks at each other as police fired tear gas in the city of El Alto. Morales, who was president from 2006 to 2019, led thousands of supporters on a weeklong march toward the capital La Paz.
He wants to run as the ruling Mas party’s candidate in the country’s 2025 presidential elections. But current president Luis Arce also plans to run. Arce’s supporters have taken to the streets to protest Morales and his supporters.
Morales was declared the winner of the 2019 election, but resigned weeks later after protests sparked by reports of vote-counting irregularities, and went into exile.