translated from Spanish: Bolivian opposition Carlos Mesa said “a violent mob” would head home

Bolivian opponent Carlos Mesa reported on Monday that “a violent mob” is heading home, as part of a new day of unrest in La Paz and El Alto over the political crisis opened after the presidential elections of the last 20 October.” Many people alert me to indicate that a violent mob is heading to my home to destroy it. I’m calling on the National Police to avoid that madness,” said the former president and former vice president on Twitter without giving further details. According to the Bolivian newspaper ‘La Razón’, at least twenty people have been injured by the action of groups armed with sticks, stones and even dynamite that have performed on Monday in La Paz and El Alto.La Police has been deployed in some places clashes with these armed groups, while in some neighborhoods the neighbors themselves have mobilized by erecting barricades to protect themselves. Supporters and detractors of former President Evo Morales have accused the opposing side of the violence. “After the first day of the civic-political-police coup, the mutinous police repress with bullet to cause deaths and injuries in El Alto. My solidarity with these innocent victims,” said the indigenous leader via Twitter.In La Paz, bolivian capital, the situation has become so complicated that security forces have escorted the second vice-president out of the Legislative Assembly Jeanine Añez, who is called to succeed Morales on an interim level. The Legislative Assembly plans to meet in the coming hours to appoint the successors of the resigned, including Morales, and to call new presidential elections. The source of the crisis in Bolivia is the presidential elections of October 20, in which, according to Mesa, there was a “giant fraud” to guarantee a fourth term of morales.After a wave of protests that led to clashes, blockades and sackings, Morales agreed to have the Organization of American States (OAS) conduct an election audit that has finally confirmed irregularities. In this context, the indigenous leader agreed to hold new elections, although both the Police and the Armed Forces suggested that he resign, something he did shortly thereafter. Morales, as well as some Latin American countries, has denounced a “coup d’état.”

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