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Bolivia Politics

BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT SUBMITS RESIGNATION

Bolivian President Carlos Mesa has announced his resignation after weeks of
demonstrations against his government that have threatened to paralyze the
landlocked South American country.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/...ivia/index.html

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Well hopefully things will simmer down now, but I can't understand why they didn't just call elections?

NEW PRESIDENT FOR STRIFE-TORN BOLIVIA
Bolivia's chief supreme court justice has been sworn in as the country's new president.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ivia050610.html

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LEFT-WING CANDIDATE FAVOURED TO WIN BOLIVIAN ELECTION

The head of Bolivia's socialist movement is the favourite to become the South American country's first indigenous president when voters go to the polls on Sunday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...tion051217.html

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MORALES BEGINS TO FORM GOVERNMENT

Bolivia's first Indian president was working to form a new leftist government Monday, a day after he pledged in his inaugural speech to transform the poor Andean nation by bringing its natural resources under state control.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/...s.ap/index.html

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I like this Evo guy (though not his jumpers!)... when a reporter asked him whether he'd consider changing his stance on the legalisation of Bolivia's coca crop if the US threatened to withold financial aid otherwise (a large proportion of Bolivia's social budget is financed through the Inter-American Bank) he told him 'hell no!' (or words to that effect)... after all the guys an old coca farmer himself and relies on the support of indigenous coca growers. Well, I like his style I thought but the guy must be crazy - Bolivia needs the money... until he went on to say that he was planning on re-nationalising Bolivia's gas industry (shrewd move in an age when natural resources and energy production are at a premium) and would stop up any money lost through American aid drying up with private investment in the transport and distribution of Bolivia's natural gas - most likely using (and this is the genius part) Chinese capital. Oh how I belly laughed - they're gonna love that up at 'Casa Blanca' eh?! So, although Castro may not be around for too much longer, with Chavez and now Evo are we finally seeing the beginning of the end for the reign of the economic elites in Latin America?

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BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT GIVES TEACHERS HALF HIS PAY

President Evo Morales cut his salary in half and declared no Cabinet minister can collect a higher wage than his own, with the savings to be used to hire more public school teachers.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/...y.ap/index.html

Bolivia Politics

LEFTIST LEADERS REJECT U.S. TRADE PLAN

Bolivia's new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday that rejects U.S.-backed free trade and promises a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/...t.ap/index.html

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It seems like Bolivia is heading down the path of Socialism:

I do agree that foreign companies often suck the resources of natives (why would they be there in the first place) and often make it hard for them to live because they are monopolistic in nature.