Hooded protesters in the Bolivian capital stormed the Venezuelan embassy on November 10 after President Morales resigned.

"The hooded men carrying explosives and shields seized the Venezuelan embassy in Bolivia. We were fine and safe, but they wanted to carry out a massacre against us," the Venezuelan ambassador at Bolivia Crisbeylee Gonzalez told Bolivian state news agency ABI and Cuban news agency Prensa Latina. "Please help us report this barbarism."

The incident happened after Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation on November 10 due to the loss of military and police support. Morales asserted that "the dark forces have destroyed national democracy", referring to the opponents he accused of plotting a coup.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an ally of Morales, called the development in Bolivia a coup.

Unrest in Bolivia has erupted since Morales announced his election for a fourth term on October 20. Opposition accused of fraud in election results, calling for the organization to vote again. The opposition has now issued orders to arrest Morales and is searching for him, but a police official said there was no order to arrest the former president.

In 2006, Morales became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected for a fourth term in a row in October after the constitutional court decided to lift the presidential term limit.

The amendment of the constitution has caused a great deal of controversy because in the 2016 referendum, the majority of the people voted "no" to lift the term limit of Bolivian leadership. However, the Morales party brought the matter to constitutional court.