So, in Year 3 of the Evo Morales administration, police shot dead two miners protesting for a younger retirement age.
VP Álvaro García Linera called union leaders "fascists" and part of the "caveman, antidemocratic right wing."
In a master class in victim-blaming apologies, AGL said "I lament that these leaders are driving and converting the COB [labor federation] into clash groups on behalf of antidemocratic and fascist interests. That is what is sad today; we lament the death of two people."
Seven days later, Morales signed Supreme Decree 29668 compensating the families of those killed with Bs/50,000 (~$7,300) each. https://www.lexivox.org/norms/BO-DS-29668.html
As is often the case, the killings were followed by a partial agreement between the government and the workers it repressed. In this instance, the government promised a new pension law and the workers offered a 45-day truce in mobilizations. https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/cob-announces-45-day-truce-with-bolivian-government/
This was also one of several instances where the Morales government claimed security forces didn't have firearms and therefore civilian casualties were some kind of mystery.