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...supporters in the outlying regions began violently seizing control over state buildings. For weeks, TV images showed outnumbered policemen cowering from armed mobs of opposition supporters ransacking government buildings and randomly attacking indigenous people. (Morales is Bolivia's first indigenous president, and the indigenous people remain his strongest support base...
...protest against a plan to export natural gas to Chile. The violence forced Goni to resign and flee to the U.S., where he remains. Morales has far more political support than Goni, but the memory of military massacre still haunts Bolivian politics. Still, the pressure from his own support base may have prompted Morales to intervene in the wake of Porvenir. The sentiments expressed by Baqueros are typical: "People don't even fear the police anymore," she says. "The government has got to get tougher. Either they put an end to this madness or we will do it ourselves...
...accused in 2006 of training paramilitaries - an accusation he denies - was arrested Tuesday after witnesses claimed that the gunmen at Porvenir were regional government officials under the Prefect's command. Fernandez has not commented on claims he was involved. While the arrest is likely to please Morales' base, it may cloud prospects for stabilizing the situation through dialogue. Opposition leaders Tuesday Opposition leaders demanded the release of Fernandez and all "political prisoniers" apprehended on charges relating to last week's violence. While the opposition leaders left the door open for dialogue, the incarceration of Fernandez doesn't bode well...
...Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who presided over the ceremony in a former Saddam Hussein palace at a military base near Baghdad Airport, lauded Petraeus as "one of our nation's great battle captains." Petraeus, 55, will take over as head of U.S Central Command next month, which will give him responsibility for the U.S. missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan...
...alienation from the government. Few Iraqis are hopeful that upcoming provincial elections will help improve their lot. Likewise, the change of U.S. command doesn't mean much to some Iraqis. "General Petraeus, General Odierno - what difference does it make to me?" said one Iraqi working near the U.S. military base where the handover ceremony took place. Maybe he, too, was waiting for General Electric...