On the night of November 10, Franco's family home in La Paz, capital of Bolivia, was attacked by hundreds of people. The family narrowly escaped by climbing the walls, before the house was looted and burned. "They also destroyed the kitchen, and that was one of the children's rooms," laments Franco Albarracin, pointing to the cameras of France 24, a room completely devastated, ragged walls, torn floors.

Franco's father, Waldo, is the rector of a Bolivian public university. His students had mobilized to demand the resignation of Evo Morales. "I think this attack was meant to intimidate people, and it worked," says Franco Albarracin.

Twenty-seven people killed in clashes

There were no injuries in the Albarracin family, only material damage. A chance. Since the beginning of the crisis, 27 people have been killed in violence, three of whom died on 19 November. They were killed in clashes between pro-Morales and the Bolivian army in El Alto.

The protesters had blocked a refinery to express their rejection of Jeanine Añez, the interim president of Bolivia who took the reins of the Andean country 48-hours after the resignation of Evo Morales on November 10. The evening of his departure, the supporters of the former president took the suburbs of La Paz. "People went down to the police station and attacked and burned it," said Achumani neighborhood resident Bernardo Castillo.

Night rounds and individual alarms

Since then, whole districts of the capital are organized to protect themselves. The people of Achumani have created their own security system: night patrols, alarms, and even stones to defend themselves. "We've set up a warning system, it's like a panic button, and when a neighbor sees something weird, he can activate the alarm on his phone," says local neighborhood resident Juan Carlos Vacaflor.

The political crisis of recent weeks has accentuated the polarization of Bolivian society. On the one hand, the popular, Indian and peasant classes favor Evo Morales, on the other the middle classes, white and mixed race. With Evo Morales, they had learned to live together in a multinational state. But the violence has revived a latent division in Bolivia.