Due to Evo Morales's Aymara heritage and his forced resignation in the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, Red Ponchos left the city of El Alto in protest on November 11. They called for a civil war that would occur. Their terms, declared on November 18, was that, if figures in the new government would not step down within 24 hours, they would march to La Paz and start a civil war.