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...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...
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...
...Lozada: “The first time I met him, I thought Chris was a student...
...Lozada: “All of us are still friends. We all definitely get along. Champagne brunch...
...XELECTED. GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA, 72, to the presidency of Bolivia; in La Paz. Lozada garnered the most votes in the race, the closest in the nation's history, but fell short of the required majority and was subsequently installed as President by a vote of Congress...