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Resignation of Evo Morales: "Police mutiny will have marked a turning point"

Bolivia woke up on Monday without a leader, after the forced resignation yesterday evening of its president, in power for nearly fourteen years, following three weeks of intense social protest. A resignation that seemed the only possible outcome as the head of state was cornered from all sides. The decoding of these last events with Claude Le Gouill, sociologist at the Research Center of the Americas (Creda) and the House Foundation of Human Sciences (FMSH).

" The police lined up in the opposition camp and the situation became more and more unstable, which led Evo Morales to propose, at first, new elections and finally, under the pressure of the army, to give up his post. "

Claude Le Gouill is co-author, with Laurent Lacroix, of the book The Process of Change in Bolivia. The policy of Evo Morales (Editions of IHEAL).

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