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...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...
...Casimiro Huanca, who witnesses say was shot in the back by soldiers during a protest last December. According to U.S. and Bolivian officials, the special unit will be dissolved next month. The cocaleros--who are guilty themselves of killing soldiers in recent clashes--accuse the U.S. embassy in La Paz of lobbying behind the scenes with parliamentary leaders to get Morales kicked out of the assembly for his pro-coca activism, a charge the embassy denies. The growers were outraged when the U.S. ambassador, Manuel Rocha, warned that a Morales victory would mean a drastic reduction in U.S. economic...
...LUCIA has a nice twist: girl stalks boy. Alternatively, you can see it as the story of a girl who, contrary to cliche, gets ruined by a book. The tome is by a handsome writer, Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa); his fan, Lucia (the divine Paz Vega), follows him around, comes on to him in a bar and then goes home with him for some of the hottest, nakedest sex you have seen since your last European "art" film. (For the past couple of years, European movies have been raising--or lowering--the bar in this matter, without much comment...
...naval attaché takes me under her wing and introduces me to all the “right people” as I marvel at her grace, strength, presence and poise. Later in the summer, I wait by the side of the road for a bus back to La Paz Centro from Managua. As a van full of U.S. Marines drive by, they slow and salute their fellow American (me!) through the windows. I glow for weeks, despite the Marines’ clear ploy for female attention...
...that C students can become President of the United States only if they are sons of a former President and if their brother is Florida's Governor [NOTEBOOK, June 4]. If they are not so lucky, they must bear down much harder on their studies. ALFREDO ORTEGA-RUBIO La Paz, Mexico...