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...question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady...
...poetry and converting to Islam. In 2002, he starred in a film, named Chico - his nickname - based on his own life. It won first prize in Hungary's film festival in 2002. During this time, he seems to have taken a renewed interest in his birth country, Bolivia. "Santa Cruz is something that is omnipresent in my life," he said in a 2006 interview. "A constant. At the heart, I am cruceno" a denizen of Santa Cruz. On his website Sic Semper Tyrannus (Thus Always Tyranny) he also linked himself to a Santa Cruz-based fascist group, Nacion Camba...
Though paramilitary groups are common inside South American neighbors like Peru and Colombia, they are not in Bolivia. Opposition leader and Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas suggested Thursday's events might be a government stunt orchestrated by Morales, who has declared assassination plots against him on several occasions during his presidency but had yet to offer proof. "Anyone can see that this is a crude staging, a show," Costas said in a press conference, adding it could also be the government's way of deflecting attention away from a bomb that exploded outside the Santa Cruz house of a Roman...
...Bolivia. At the same time, anti-indigenous racism is widespread in Bolivia's east. Right-wing opposition groups were responsible for violent attacks on indigenous citizens last year before January's constitutional referendum, which gave Bolivia's majority indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass an electoral law that gives the indigenous more legislative seats...
...anti-Washington agenda (including his nationalization of Bolivia's vast natural gas reserves) as well as his alliance with fellow Latin radicals like Chavez and Cuban President Raul Castro. Last year, in fact, Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador after accusing him of supporting his right-wing foes in Santa Cruz. Last week, he remarked that armed groups in that province were "instruments of the empire," his code for the U.S. But while he complained on Thursday of "outside interference" in Bolivian affairs, he pulled back from fingering Washington, saying he didn't yet know who was financing the alleged assassination...