Clashes break out in the streets of the Bolivian capital after Jeanine Anez, an opposition leader in the Senate, declared herself the country’s interim president
Bolivian Senator Jeanine Anez delivers a speech after she said she was taking office as Interim President of Bolivia, in La Paz, Bolivia November 12, 2019
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. Morales was met at Mexico City’s airport by Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard after a flight from Bolivia on a Mexican government plane and repeated that he had been forced to resign by a coup.
Resignations by all other constitutionally designated successors left unclear who would take his place and how. Morales’ departure was a dramatic fall for the one-time llama shepherd from the Bolivian highlands and former coca growers’ union leader who as president helped lift millions out poverty, increased social rights and presided over nearly 14 years of stability and high economic growth in South America’s poorest country.
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