“Now they are killing our brothers in Sacaba, Cochabamba,” he said in another tweet. Protesters said police fired when demonstrators, including many coca leaf growers who backed Bolivia’s first indigenous president, tried to cross a military checkpoint. Emeterio Colque Sánchez, a 23-year-old university student, said he saw the dead bodies of several protesters and about two-dozen people rushed to hospitals, many covered in blood. Bolivia’s interim leader also said Morales would not be allowed to participate in new presidential elections meant to heal the Andean nation’s political standoff. A tearful woman put her hand on a wooden casket surrounded by flowers and asked: “Is this what you call democracy?

Source: International New York Times November 16, 2019 05:03 UTC