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Thirty-three people were killed in a shoot-out with army officers in front of the presidential palace. Fourteen more were killed when a mob of angry demonstrators set fire to a gas station. When 30,000 fervent demonstrators descended on the Bolivian capitol—which, in a stroke of tragic irony, is named La paz (“The peace”)—they came with a list of 72 demands on president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The first demand was for him to leave office...
These last two weeks of intense rioting, looting and over 65 deaths have left the landscape littered with destroyed toll booths and cut-down lamp posts and the major Bolivian city of El Alto with a severe food shortage. But this weekend, the protesters got their wish; President Sanchez has now fled to Miami...
They were the kind of ugly street scenes that few presidencies survive. All last week, thousands of poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead...
...Goni's measures must be wiped out! ? - JAIME SOLARES, Bolivian Workers Central...
...double-digit economic contraction to that country. As a result, Mesa's support in Bolivia will be fragile at best - especially since he pledged to maintain economic-austerity policies. "Goni was completely linked to foreign interests and foreign capital against Bolivia's interests," said Jaime Solares, head of the Bolivian Workers Central. "All of his measures must be wiped out!" Foreign investors can only hope that the rest of Latin America doesn't begin to sound that Jacobin. Reassuringly, the region's new leftward shift seems more strongly influenced by the fiscal prudence and less strident rhetoric Brazil's Lula...