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...Bolivia is burning again, like it burned before, and the flames will not die soon. Their president, elected by a razor thin margin, has resigned and flown to Miami. Democracy hangs by a thread. There are big issues at work there, fights at high levels over globalization and free market reforms. But if you want to understand Bolivia’s unrest, just look at the pictures...
...source of this extreme and violent outcry that toppled the executive branch of Bolivia’s government was the president’s desire to make his natural resource-rich nation a player in the global economy—a move that Bolivia was clearly not ready to embrace. Sanchez’s plan involved exporting some of Bolivia’s abundant natural gas to willing buyers in Mexico and California. The idea met stiff resistance from the Bolivian population, who scoffed at the notion that the gas pipeline would need to pass through the Chilean coast, since...
Sanchez’s resignation seems to have allayed some of the fears of the crowds, who are now starting to disperse, but it is still essential for the U.S. to keep a close eye on Bolivia, the poorest—and now most politically fragile—nation in the region. When Sanchez stepped down, he handed power to his vice-president, Carlos Mesa, who is seen as an independent voice from the previous regime but has only been in government for one year—joining Sanchez’s ticket as vice-president after a career...
...radical forces still playing on the xenophobic resurgence, such as Indian Leader Felipe Quispe, who has assembled his own “Indigenous Congress” outside the Bolivian capitol, the situation is far from settled. With far left Hugo Chavez leading next-door Venezuela into financial ruin, Bolivia stands particularly vulnerable; rumors of Chavez’s involvement in this latest uprising should be enough to rouse U.S. attention to this region’s fragility. If America learned nothing else from the last Brazilian economic crisis and its extraordinary domino effect, it is that the U.S. ignores...
...dozens were killed in Bolivia and the nation was being literally disassembled by dynamite-carrying throngs, the U.S. did send help—a six-person assessment team charged with securing its own embassy building. The administration, and the American public, needs to increase its commitment to nations like Bolivia—for their health and for ours...