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...Kennedy School directs a program teaching basic market economics and related subjects to Vietnamese civil servants. We have assisted with financial reform efforts in Ethiopia and Indonesia. And we have helped many countries, such as Mexico, China, Bolivia, South Africa, and Singapore, establish their own public policy schools as they strive to become more self-sufficient in their own development and governance...
...region's rich and poor. Since Chávez was elected in 1998 (and again in a special 2000 election), leftist leaders like him have taken power or are leading voter polls in eight countries, including the two largest, Brazil and Mexico. The most recent domino to fall was Bolivia. Last month an uprising by indigenous citizens demanding the nationalization of the country's natural-gas reserves toppled the President, Bolivia's second to go in less than two years. Says Evo Morales, the rebellion's leftist leader, who is a favorite to win a presidential election later this year: "Ch?...
...RESIGNED. CARLOS MESA, 51, President of Bolivia; after nearly a month of protests by the country's indigenous majority; in La Paz, Bolivia. The demonstrations, which call for the nationalization of the country's natural gas reserves to prevent exploitation by foreign companies, have closed airports in the nation and cut off food and fuel supplies to its major cities. Mesa, whose predecessor resigned in 2003 following protests over the government's energy policy, warned that "the country is on the verge of civil war." He has been succeeded by Supreme Court Chief Justice Eduardo Rodriguez...
...that "they may want to gouge out his eyes, strangle him, make him into ground meat." The Cuban President was especially piqued because the renewed interest in Vesco stole attention from Castro's call for Latin American countries to repudiate their collective foreign debt, which totals some $360 billion. BOLIVIA Sour Smell of Success...
...Estenssoro, who has been elected President three times before, will need all his political skills to defeat an even tougher opponent: Bolivia's ravaged economy. La Paz business groups estimate that the country's annual inflation rate will reach 30,000% this year. One of the new President's first acts was to announce an austerity program that included devaluation of the peso and renegotiation of the country's $4.8 billion foreign debt. ITALY The Mafia's Double Strike...