{"id":20142,"date":"2019-11-10T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20142"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:59:19","slug":"after-3-weeks-protest-bolivian-president-evo-morales-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20142","title":{"rendered":"After 3 weeks protest Bolivian President Evo Morales steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday amid growing opposition after an international audit found the results of last month&#8217;s election could not be validated because of &#8220;serious irregularities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Morales said he was stepping down &#8220;for the good of the country,&#8221; which has been roiled by protests in the days following the October 20 election. Three people have died in the protests and hundreds have been injured.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Calls for Morales&#8217; resignation had grown over the weekend, and on Sunday, the head of the Bolivian Armed Forces, Cmdr. Williams Kaliman, asked Morales to step down in order to restore stability and peace.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20143,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions\/20143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}