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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...
...Without fear of the [U.S.] empire, I stand before the Bolivian people today and declare United States Ambassador Mr. Goldberg persona non grata," Morales said Wednesday afternoon, in a speech inaugurating a youth employment program. "We don't want people here who conspire against our unity. We don't want people who threaten our democracy...
...Citing the ambassador's previous role as the U.S. State Department's Bosnia desk officer from 1994 to 1996 and then Chief of Mission in Kosovo from 2004 until 2006, the MAS statement accuses Goldberg of being "an expert in encouraging separatist conflicts." It chronicles clandestine meetings between the Ambassador and rightwing political and business leaders, and claims that Goldberg had arranged for a media "dirty war" against Morales and is now encouraging the violent takeover of government institutions to force out the president...
...What we are seeing is some prospect of the de-escalation of conflict between the two peoples, but it's not going to be easy," says former U.S. ambassador to Turkey Mark Parris, currently a scholar at the Brookings Institution. "Both capitals have wanted to find a solution for some time, but third parties - including Azerbaijan, in the case of Turkey, and the Armenian diaspora, in the case of Yerevan - have militated against...