Word: boliviaã
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...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...
...Bolivia??€™s natives are not ignorant of their oppression, or that it comes largely at the hands of the white ruling class. Protesters now see the current natural gas battle as another attempt by the ruling class to rob Bolivia??€™s native people of their resources, and they have brought the government to its knees in their outrage...
...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...
...Bolivia??€™s brush with disintegration and violent socialist insurrection should remind the U.S. to retain an active interest in nations that have been paying the high prices of America’s market-based reforms. The U.S. cannot afford to leave these countries without help in emergency situations and without advice on, and support for, long-term growth...
...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...