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		</div><h6><strong>Bolivia&#8217;s socialist President Evo Morales resigns after the nation&#8217;s military chief said he should leave office following fraud allegations that marred his recent re-election after 13 years office</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>President Morales announced his departure Sunday after General Williams Kaliman said the South American nation&#8217;s military chiefs wanted him gone</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>Kaliman said on national television Sunday that the military&#8217;s chiefs wanted Morales gone to restore &#8216;peace and stability and for the good of our Bolivia&#8217;</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>Kaliman who had sidestepped constitutional provisions stepped in within hours of Morales agreeing earlier in the day to hold a new election </strong></h6>
<h6><strong>Morales&#8217; claim to have won a fourth term in October had triggered fraud allegations, deadly protests and a split among security forces </strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Morales, first elected in 2006, was seeking to remain in power until 2025 after he took legal action to get around constitutional term limits</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334884" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Luis-Fernando-Camacho-1.jpg" alt="Luis Fernando Camacho 1.JPG" width="952" height="623" /><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Luis Fernando Camacho, a Bolivian opposition leader, waves a Bolivian national flag in La Paz on Sunday after delivering a pre-written resignation letter at the Palacio Quemado [former presidential palace], Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales to sign</span></strong></h6>
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<div>Bolivia&#8217;s embattled socialist president Evo Morales has resigned, Sunday.<br />
Morales announced his resignation shortly after the military called on him to step down amid continued protests following the South American nation&#8217;s disputed elections.<br />
General WIlliams Kaliman said on national television that the military&#8217;s chiefs wanted Morales gone to restore &#8216;peace and stability and for the good of our Bolivia&#8217;.</div>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334880" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bolivians-celebrate-ouster-of-Evo-Morales-on-the-streets-of-La-Paz-1.jpg" alt="Bolivians celebrate ouster of Evo Morales on the streets of La Paz 1" width="961" height="654" /><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong>People take to the streets of La Paz to celebrate the resignation of Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales on Sunday</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334881" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bolivians-celebrate-ouster-of-Evo-Morales-on-the-streets-of-La-Paz-2.jpg" alt="Bolivians celebrate ouster of Evo Morales on the streets of La Paz 2" width="951" height="622" /><strong>Bolivians hug themselves in relief and celebration, after Bolivia&#8217;s President Evo Morales announced his resignation in La Paz on Sunday</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;Likewise, we ask the Bolivian people and mobilized sectors to shed attitudes of violence and disorder among brothers so as not to stain our families with blood, pain and mourning&#8217;, the general said, Reuters reports.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Kaliman stepped in after Morales agreed earlier in the day to hold a new election.<br />
</span>Morales, first elected in 2006, is head of Movement for Socialism, or MAS, the country&#8217;s socialist party.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334879" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Evo-Morales-1.jpg" alt="Evo Morales 1.JPG" width="959" height="594" /><strong>Bolivia&#8217;s President Evo Morales announced Sunday he was resigning amid pressure from the military just hours before to step down. Morales [pictured earlier in the day announcing there would be a new presidential election] faced allegations of electoral fraud </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><b><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334906" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Gleeful-Bolivians-celebrate-ouster-of-Evo-Morales-on-the-streets-of-La-Paz-4.jpg" alt="Gleeful Bolivians celebrate ouster of Evo Morales on the streets of La Paz 4.JPG" width="747" height="451" />Ecstatic</b><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> Bolivians People pour into the streets of La Paz to celebrate the resignation of Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales on Sunday</span></strong></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Morales&#8217; claim to have won a fourth term last month had triggered fraud allegations, deadly protests and a split among security forces, The Associated Press reports.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Earlier on Sunday, a report from the Organization of American States (OAS), which conducted an audit of the October vote, revealed serious irregularities in the election won by Morales, which sparked widespread division in the country.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334902" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bolivians-celebrate-ouster-of-Evo-Morales-on-the-streets-of-La-Paz-4.jpg" alt="Bolivians celebrate ouster of Evo Morales on the streets of La Paz 4" width="755" height="485" /><strong>Relief: Happy people celebrate after Bolivia&#8217;s President Evo Morales announced his resignation in La Paz on Sunday</strong></span></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Police against the reelection of now former President Evo Morales are pictured on the rooftop of a police station waving national flags near a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: &#8216;The police is with the people&#8217;.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A demonstrator reacts during a protest against Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales in La Paz on Sunday</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The dispute over the October 20 election triggered nationwide protests, resulting in three deaths and more than 300 injuries.<br />
Police guards outside the presidential palace left their posts Saturday, allowing anti-government protesters to walk up to the doors of the building.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334909" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Luis-Fernando-Camacho-2.jpg" alt="Luis Fernando Camacho 2" width="734" height="481" /><strong>Luis Fernando Camacho, a Santa Cruz civic leader and opposition figure, is greeted by supporters during a protest against now former President Evo Morales on Sunday</strong></span><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334917" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Protests-against-Bolivia-President-Evo-Morales-in-La-Paz-on-Nov-5.jpg" alt="Protests against Bolivia President Evo Morales in La Paz on Nov 5.JPG" width="675" height="425" />People protest against Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales in La Paz, on Sunday</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Morales was not in the building when police retreated, with some of them standing on the roof of a near by police station in a sign of growing discontent among security forces and that his presidency was in trouble.<br />
Officials in the palace in La Paz were evacuated, leaving only a military presidential guard.<br />
Bolivian police had became openly defiant a day earlier after protests appeared to be spreading.</p>
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<h6><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334894" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Activity-at-police-station-during-a-protest-against-Bolivias-now-former-President-Evo-Morales-in-La-Paz-on-Nov-10-2019.jpg" alt="Activity at police station during a protest against Bolivia's now former President Evo Morales in La Paz on Nov 10, 2019" width="955" height="625" />Officers at a police station during a protest against Bolivia&#8217;s former President Evo Morales in La Paz on Sunday. Police reportedly had became openly defiant a day earlier after protests appeared to be spreading</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334897" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Supporters-of-Evo-Morales-block-road-in-La-Paz-4.jpg" alt="Supporters of Evo Morales block road in La Paz 4" width="960" height="625" /><strong>Supporters of Bolivia&#8217;s now former President Evo Morales block a street in La Paz, on Sunday</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334898" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Supporters-of-Evo-Morales-stand-on-pedestrian-bridges-blocking-road-that-connects-La-Paz-and-El-Alto-1.jpg" alt="Supporters of Evo Morales stand on pedestrian bridges, blocking road that connects La Paz and El Alto 1" width="961" height="564" />Supporters of Evo Morales stand on pedestrian bridges as they block a road that connects La Paz and El</strong> <strong>Alto</strong></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On Thursday a Bolivian mayor was doused in red paint and had her hair hacked off by protesters who blamed her for the deaths of two opposition protesters.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Patricia Arce, of the governing Mas party, was dragged out of Vinto town hall on and subjected to four hours of degradation in which she was made to kneel and sign her resignation.</p>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Young men carrying batons and wearing masks chanted, &#8216;Murderess, murderess,&#8217; as they marched Arce to a platform where they cut her hair before the baying mob.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Morales, first elected president in 2006, was seeking to remain in power until 2025 after he took legal action to get around constitutional term limits.</p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Morales, first elected in 2006, was seeking to remain in power until 2025 after he took legal action to get around constitutional term limits</span></div>
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Bolivia President, Evo Morales, resigns after nation’s military chief said he should leave office following fraud allegations that marred his election
