- On Sunday 22/09, pro-government supporters and security forces in Bolivia clashed with protesters loyal to the former President Evo Morales.
- Rival groups hurled firecrackers, homemade explosives and stones at each other while police fired tear gas in the city of El Alto. Morales - who was president from 2006 to 2019 - has been leading thousands of supporters in a week-long march to the capital La Paz. At least 34 people have been injured since the start of the protests.
- On 24/09, tensions rose as former President Evo Morales spoke to a large crowd and demanded that the government make cabinet changes “within 24 hours”, or face the wrath of thousands of protesters who he has led in a week-long march.
- The mounting social unrest takes place in a context of pre-electoral cycle, economic turmoil due to the depletion of Bolivia’s foreign-exchange reserves and forest fires ravaging part of the country.
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