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November 16, 2019
At least five people died after being shot in clashesbetween coca farmers and security forces in Bolivia.
About 34 people were injured and more than 100arrested.
The farmers were trying to march through Cochabamba toLa Paz to support ousted President Evo Morales, who is in exile in Mexico.
The Police and the military blocked the way of theprotesters on a bridge in Sacaba, an eastern suburb of Cochabamba.
The police chief in Cochabamba Jaime Zurita said thefarmers attacked security forces with guns.
Morales came from a family of coca farmers. In theearly 1980s he became active in the coca farmers’ union in central Chapareregion, before being elected executive secretary of a coca growers’ federationin 1988.