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...Bolivia TAKING TO THE STREETS Protesters took over public offices across the country amid escalating opposition to leftist President Evo Morales. The protesters want to stop Morales from rewriting the constitution and redistributing natural gas revenue from wealthy states to poorer indigenous communities. On Sept. 10, Morales ordered U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg to leave the country, accusing him of "conspiring against democracy...
...bold challenge to Washington, Bolivia's President Evo Morales has declared U.S. Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg persona non grata in his country, and requested that he be expelled. The surprise announcement is based on government allegations, as yet undocumented, that Goldberg has fomented civil unrest in South America's poorest country...
...fear Russia as much as the next guy, but I have a good memory. What would the U.S. do if Russia suddenly started alliances with Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba and other Latin American states and began setting up missiles there? Fortunately, we have an answer. President Kennedy faced the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis. Why should the Russians be the ones to blame for the current crisis? We ought to look in the mirror, and at the Texas cowboy in the White House. Albert Reingewirtz, HAVERTOWN...
...Surviving in waters infested with sharks is something we're not used to.' RAMIRO ARISPE, Bolivian naval captain, on joining a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Bolivia lost its coast during an 1879-84 war with Chile; its navy is landlocked...
...allies to promote his anti-U.S. Bolivarian Revolution. Foes have long groused that his largesse can also be as shadowy as the covert U.S. operations Chavez accuses agencies like the CIA of perpetrating. They contend that he has funneled cash to leftist candidates in presidential races from Bolivia to Mexico, and that he has helped fund Marxist guerrillas like the FARC in Colombia. Chavez has just as adamantly denied those charges, as have his supposed beneficiaries...