
"Do you think we are ignorant?"
Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine AƱez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.
An Indigenous woman, in comment toĀ RTĀ Thursday, asked if the coup leaders thought the people of Bolivia were ignorant of what was happening in the country.
"ĀæCreen que somos ignorantes?": El contundente discurso de una mujer indĆgena a lo que sucede en Bolivia⦠https://t.co/4PePPmYjwvā RT en EspaƱol (@RT en EspaƱol)1573843436.0
Friday's demonstrations were a show of force by the Bolivian people against the coup government. Video and photographs from the country showed long stretching lines of people waving the Indigenous wiphala flag and calling for AƱez to step down.
Protests against the coup dāetat in #Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marchi⦠https://t.co/4M51yotTGdā nonouzi (@nonouzi)1573837651.0
#Bolivia: Massive protests against the coup continue, āResign the self-proclaimed interim presidentā #EvoMorales⦠https://t.co/fGujRohBYsā nonouzi (@nonouzi)1573841619.0
La Paz, 1:30pm: Mass march against the coup administration and with chants aimed at the police for repressing the B⦠https://t.co/O3znRJNukwā Camila (@Camila)1573840162.0
La Paz, 2pm: Thousands against the many violations to democracy and the rights of the people under the coup.⦠https://t.co/j5NOfaNWskā Camila (@Camila)1573841430.0
"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as SoniaĀ toldĀ Democracy Now!Ā Thursday. "He worked for the people. He didn't rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we're not humans."