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See video here:

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1191517187938361344

I'm trying to figure out, was it a brief takeoff and then,  they landed it right away (don't worry about looking all of that up, I'll find it).  Below is the first, I heard about some people's suspicion of "sabotage".

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Bolivia's Evo Morales 'unhurt' after helicopter emergency landing
Mechanical glitch cited for president's helicopter mishap, which raised suspicions among his supports amid coup rumours.


Opponents of Morales have branded the result of the presidential elections a fraud, citing alleged irregularities in the vote count [File: Martin Alipaz/EPA].

A helicopter carrying Bolivia's President Evo Morales made an emergency landing on Monday due to a mechanical problem, the military said, raising suspicions among his supporters after opponents promised to remove him.

No one was hurt in the incident, the air force said, but the incident fuelled tensions in the country where protesters have been rallying against the left-wing president for two weeks following his disputed re-election.

The mechanical glitch happened as the helicopter was taking off from a village in the Andes where Morales had been inaugurating a new road, it said. Video of the incident circulated on social media.

More at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/bolivia-evo-morales-unhurt-helicopter-emergency-landing-191105010543032.html

Related:

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Is Evo Morales leading Bolivia toward dictatorship?

Fujiko Urdininea was 8 when Evo Morales first became president of Bolivia. Now 21, she is one of the thousands of young people taking to the streets of the nation’s capital each day to seek his removal.

“A good leader knows when it’s time to leave,” Urdininea said on Saturday as she helped organize a roadblock in the capital city of La Paz. “We are tired of the manipulation and the lies of this government. And we deserve the chance to see other forms of organizing society.”

Evo Morales is Bolivia’s first Indigenous president. And last week, he won a fourth consecutive term in an election that has unleashed large protests in Bolivia and led to accusations that Morales is trying to turn the landlocked country into an authoritarian state where only one candidate can ever win a presidential election.

Read more at: https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-29/evo-morales-leading-bolivia-toward-dictatorship

Things are not the best in Latin America. To me, though, the difficulties certainly don't seem to generally compare to the ME.

I know someone from Bolivia, the face is very similar though, my friend is lighter complected.

Morales' twitter account:   https://twitter.com/evoespueblo


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