Supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales clash with police

Описание: (13 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia - 13 January 2025
1. Various of supporters of former president Evo Morales clashing with police near presidential palace
2. Police chasing demonstrators and firing tear gas
3. People walking near tear gas
4. Police detaining demonstrator
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Mamani, protester:
"We want justice for our unjustly detained people and there should be a solution for the problem of the prices of the basic food basket. Otherwise, we are going to intensify our pressure measures."
6. Various of women shouting at police
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Mamani, protester:
"We have more than 170 detainees nationwide who are in the different prisons of Bolivia."
8. Various of demonstrators
STORYLINE:
Bolivian police used tear gas and detained two supporters of former President Evo Morales on Monday after they marched in La Paz, without their leader, against the country's economic crisis and in support of the former leader.

In a new showdown between Morales and Bolivian President Luis Arce, less than seven months before the nation's general elections, Morales' supporters reached the centre of the capital on Monday after having marched some 100 kilometres (62 miles).

The protest came a day before a court hearing scheduled against Morales.

Prosecutors have sought the arrest of Morales in connection to a sexual abuse investigation involving his alleged fathering of a child with a 15-year-old girl.

Morales' defence announced that he will not attend the hearing because he was not notified.

Demonstrators on Monday said they consider the accusation a “political persecution” against the former president.

The protesters tried to enter the central plaza, which houses the Government Palace, but the police blocked their way amid clashes. The police responded with tear gas to disperse the protest.

Morales, who did not accompany his followers to the capital, has remained entrenched in the Chapare region since September to avoid an arrest warrant issued by the prosecutor's office.

The former president and his followers accuse the Arce government of a political-judicial plot to remove him from the race for the August presidential elections.

AP video shot by Carlos Guerrero

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