{"id":12094,"date":"2019-11-11T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2019-11-11T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:46:56","slug":"bolivian-president-resigns-after-losing-backing-of-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/bolivian-president-resigns-after-losing-backing-of-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivian President Resigns After Losing Backing of Security Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing, sparking wild celebrations in La Paz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I resign my post as president,&#8221; the leftist Morales said in a televised address, capping a day of fast-moving events in which many ministers and senior officials quit as support for Latin America&#8217;s longest-serving president crumbled and creating a temporary leadership vacuum in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The streets of La Paz immediately exploded in celebration, with jubilant Bolivians setting off firecrackers and waving the country&#8217;s red, yellow and green flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main opposition candidate in the election, former president Carlos Mesa, said Bolivians &#8220;have taught the world a lesson. Tomorrow\u00a0Bolivia\u00a0will be a new country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the confusion, a group of 20 lawmakers and government officials took refuge at the Mexican ambassador&#8217;s residence, and Mexico announced it was offering asylum to Morales as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police announced on Sunday night that they had arrested Maria Eugenia Choque, the head of the country&#8217;s electoral court, an institution slammed by the opposition as biased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing, sparking wild celebrations in La Paz. &#8220;I resign my post as president,&#8221; the leftist Morales said in a televised address, capping a day of fast-moving events in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":12095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}