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The big news at latitude zero: Ecuadorian president Lucio Gutierrez's days may well be numbered......
Mesa's government decided to take a strong line against protesters — especially the striking public teachers. The announcement came shortly after La Paz public teachers kidnapped the vice minister of Education, hospitalizing him. Teachers who didn't return to work today, are supposedly fired. (Let's see how that goes.)...
I'm still wondering how the case for freedom in Cuba is helped by incidents like this...
Boy, I always mention good news from Colombia with my breath held, but this is potentially significant:...
Not sure if things are spiralling out of control for Mesa or not. He's stood on the edge of the abyss for a while now. The question is whether he knows how to turn around & walk back, build a bridge — or will he just fall....
Three dead in Beni after clashes w/ military & police. Jose Galindo, Minister of the Presidency, worries there's an effort to overthrow Mesa brewing. Meanwhile, MAS leader Evo Morales threatened a responsibility trial for the Beni clash....
Striking school teachers take a hostage; BONOSOL payments start today; internal splits w/in MAS continue; voter registration beats CNE expectations....
The backlash within the Miami exile community to President Bush's "new" policy toward Cuba continues, according to today's Miami Herald:...
Following on the heels of Carlos Castaño's murder disappearance, another former AUC leader has been assassinated:...
Or another fine Chilean wine. You know I warned him. I warned him here and here, but now he's gotten into it:...
Decision reached by the Assamblea de la Cruceñidad; National Electoral Court upset at Mesa; yet another hydrocarbons minister resigns....
bolivia , opinion , politics | by Miguel Centellas | 20 May, 2004 at 04:13 PM | comments (1) | trackback (0)
President Mesa finally announced the questions for the gas referendum. And although there are five of them, they seem rather vague & almost destined to win a "yes" vote by their very wording (which, I'm sure, was the point). But. Despite that, the questions are unclear as to what they...
Watched some TV news today at tia Lilia's house before lunch. The autopista (the route to the airport in El Alto) was blocked this morning. It was a protest by rural teachers. The residents of El Alto seemed uninterested, so the protesters began throwing rocks at house windows, cars, even...
A radio bulletin last night told that Felipe Quispe denounced his parliamentary immunity to take up armed struggle against the government. Quispe's the radical leader of his political party, MIP (Movimiento Indigena Pachacuti) as well as the CSUTCB (Confederación Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos Bolivianos). He announced that armed road...
bolivia , opinion , politics | by Miguel Centellas | 16 May, 2004 at 03:43 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
The highways out of La Paz are blocked again. Although the markets are still stocked, and prices have only barely inched up, you can't travel by land out of La Paz. This better lift soon, since I need to go to Cochabamba for a few days....
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"President Mesa finally announced the questions for the gas referendum. And although there are five of them, they seem rather vague & almost destined to win a "yes" vote by their very wording (which, I'm sure, was the point). But. Despite that, the questions are unclear as to what they..."
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