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...events in question followed mass protests by poor and indigenous Bolivians against Sanchez de Lozada's plan to export natural gas to the United States via Chile. By October 11, 2003, La Paz was suffering from a fuel shortage because of the blockades in the impoverished highland city of El Alto. On that day, Sanchez de Lozada issued Supreme Decree #27209 which sent the military to escort gas trucks to La Paz. The following week, according to witnesses, the military fired indiscriminately and without warning in El Alto neighborhoods...
Additionally, this year the center will add an undergraduate study abroad program in Chile that is focused on public health...
Reifenberg noted that while undergraduate interest in studying in Chile has waned this past semester, the country continues to be prominent in attracting students for other programs...
...Chile continues to be the country that has the largest numbers of students participating,” he wrote in an e-mail from the Chile office over the weekend. “The last two summers we placed over 30 College students in individual internship placements in Chile...
CORRECTION The Feb. 5 news article "No Students In Santiago for Spring Semester" incorrectly stated that Hajin Kim '07 studied abroad in Chile during the fall of her sophomore year. In fact, Kim studied there during the fall of her junior year...