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While three of these deaths were immediately answered by outrages—house burnings and the dragging of a mayor—against MAS supporters, they shocked and destabilized the country and contributed to the demand for Evo Morales to resign.
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Shootings of anti-Evo Morales sharpshooters of the anti-electoral fraud protest caravans en route to La Paz also heightened the crisis. paginasiete.bo/nacional/2019/11/10/masistas-emboscan-caravana-potosina-con-armas-de-fuego-236982.html
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It was in the context of this deadly violence that military officials promised to bring peace. Their actions at Sacaba and Senkata, where they killed 9 and 10 pro-MAS civilian protesters, respectively, show this promise was empty.