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It’s more or less the typical Harvard story. You’ve heard it many times by now—student spends one year at Mesa Community College, two years in Uruguay on a Mormon mission, one more year at MCC, transfers to Harvard junior year, marries during summer between junior and senior year...
Bolivia’s new government must address their true divisions themselves. The new president, Carlos Mesa, has taken one positive step in appointing an Indian cabinet minister to handle “ethnic affairs.” But Bolivia’s race problem is not something that can be so reduced and cordoned off. It must be addressed head-on. Policy concessions about the International Monetary Fund or exports to the United States will only serve to temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between...
...crowds, who are now starting to disperse, but it is still essential for the U.S. to keep a close eye on Bolivia, the poorest—and now most politically fragile—nation in the region. When Sanchez stepped down, he handed power to his vice-president, Carlos Mesa, who is seen as an independent voice from the previous regime but has only been in government for one year—joining Sanchez’s ticket as vice-president after a career as a television journalist. Fears of Mesa being a political novice were in no way assuaged...
...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. The people around Goni had had enough. First, Vice President Carlos Mesa renounced the iron fist - "I can't continue to support the situation we are living" - and then key ministers defected, as more than 100,000 Bolivians marched nationwide to demand Sánchez's ouster. By 11 p.m. Friday, Sánchez, 73, a millionaire who barely won the presidential...
...Mesa is eligible to finish Sánchez's term, which ends in 2007. But Mesa, 50, said he wished to stay on only until a referendum has been held on the natural-gas issue and a special national assembly addresses Bolivia's socioeconomic crisis, to "peacefully resolve our ancient hatreds." He gave no timetable, but told Congress that it should hold a special presidential election afterward. For now, the front-runner in any election would be Morales, 43, who also leads the Movement to Socialism Party. Should he win, it would be one more piece of evidence that Latin...