Bolivia’s Morales resigns amid scathing election report, rising protests

Griffin Curran
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bolivia-to-hold-new-elections-after-protests-and-international-criticism/2019/11/10/4778e842-03b2-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html

Bolivia's president Evo Morales has resigned after a controversial election. After nearly 14 years in office Morales claims that he became the victim of a coup as national uprising among the nation's population recently forced the country's military to pull support. Morales, the countries first indigenous president initially won the support of the people by fighting poverty, but he soon found himself losing this support as one of his political opponents began to rally the nation against him. It was originally believed that the stepping down of Morales and the removal of the socialist party from power would lead to an end in the violence, however, the mobs have not stopped their violence. At the moment it is unclear who will come to power as the nation must hold an election in 90 days, according to the constitution, but the violence may make that difficult. I think that it is interesting to see the masses achieve success in a time where it seems like many people are rising up in their countries only to experience failure. It will be interesting to see where Bolivia goes in the coming months.