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Although Washington has recently been alarmed by Bolivia's President Evo Morales' close alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and by his moves to nationalize energy reserves, the latest challenge to Washington from La Paz comes from the Bolivian judiciary: Last Thursday, the Bolivian Supreme Court allowed the indictment of former president Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada to face trial over the killing of demonstrators in October 2003. Soon, a request for the apprehension of Sanchez de Lozada will arrive in the U.S., where he has lived since resigning four years ago, and that could pose a dilemma...
...Instead, the Bush Administration may finally realize that it's smarter to beat Chavez at his own game. That means rather than building multibillion-dollar fences against Mexican migrants, forcing the drug war on Bolivian coca farmers or hard-selling free-trade pacts to Nicaraguan street vendors who aren't likely to see their benefits, the U.S. is sending signals that it's ready to embrace the kind of policies that matter to Latin voters. Bush himself made a surprise phone call this month to Washington's bitter cold war enemy, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, to congratulate him on winning...
...been six months since Bolivian soldiers marched onto foreign owned gas fields and planted themselves under signs reading "NATIONALIZED: PROPERTY OF THE BOLIVIAN PEOPLE." At the time, newly elected Bolivian President Evo Morales' May 1 announcement to nationalize his country's vast natural gas reserves by October 28 seemed like a bold gambit that could either enrich his impoverished nation - or easily backfire. He gave the foreign firms 180 days to agree to new contracts giving Bolivia 50% or more of the profits - up from the 18% agreed upon in 1997 - or else be forced to leave...
...after relocating from Panama to Georgia - can be linked to any crime. "When [Argentine junta leader] Galtieri was here in 1949, he took an engineering course," Rials says. "Did that have anything to do with him being a junta leader?" Nevertheless, a photograph of Galtieri, along with that of Bolivian dictator Hugo Banzer, hangs on one of the school's walls recognizing distinguished students...
...focus on Chávez at the end of the race is only the final chapter in a colorful campaign that has centered more on the candidates' personalities and their supposed allies than on the issues. Besides Chávez, Bolivian President Evo Morales, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and his corrupt, imprisoned national security advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos, have also figured prominently...