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...After one of the bloodiest wars of the 19th century in Latin America, a victorious Chile took control of Bolivia??s coastal provinces, leaving it without a coastline. Hence, Bolivia has not had access to the sea since the end of the War of the Pacific, which culminated 125 years ago with the Treaty of Ancón. In the country’s capital, constitutions have been passed and repealed, many regimes have risen and fallen; and yet, defying all rationality, the Bolivian Naval Force lives on. Arguably the poorest country of Latin America, and torn apart...
Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic filed two lawsuits last week charging Bolivia??s former president and defense minister with ordering the killings of 67 civilians four years ago. The suits, filed with other human rights lawyers, are among the most high-profile cases in the 24-year history of the Law School’s Human Rights Program, the clinic’s parent organization. The 10 plaintiffs—all Bolivian natives—are seeking compensatory damages against Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante...
...testing two very different waters. He visited China with Hugo Chavez’s private plane, but he sensibly cancelled the visit to Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia??s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous gold: natural...
Editorial boards at the Miami Herald, the Washington Times and, Monday, The Crimson as well have beseeched the United States government to take a role in righting Bolivia??s sinking government. They want to see foreign attention brought to bear on Bolivia??s domestic problems. But if there’s anything we should have learned here in America, it’s that a civil society cannot band together, cannot hold peace, when it is so caustically divided by race and racially dictated class barriers...
...Bolivia??s new government must address their true divisions themselves. The new president, Carlos Mesa, has taken one positive step in appointing an Indian cabinet minister to handle “ethnic affairs.” But Bolivia??s race problem is not something that can be so reduced and cordoned off. It must be addressed head-on. Policy concessions about the International Monetary Fund or exports to the United States will only serve to temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between...