Word: unrested
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...just another presidential candidate--until the U.S. threatened to cut economic aid to Bolivia if Morales won. That backfired, catapulting Morales into a runoff vote he narrowly lost. The often violent demonstrations that followed led to the resignation of two successive Bolivian Presidents. But now Morales faces his own unrest. His economically shaky plans to nationalize Bolivia's natural-gas reserves--which are South America's second largest and coveted by foreign energy investors--could lead the whiter, more affluent population of eastern Bolivia, where most of the gas is situated, to secede. Morales met with business leaders there last...
...buried him after a secret funeral. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas-not that unusual in a country where the number of demonstrations over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. Such unrest has spooked the ruling Communist Party, which perceives any social instability as a potential threat to its own authority. In 2004, China was rocked by 74,000 "mass incidents," according to Beijing's own estimate. "Villagers are emboldened when they hear of other protests," says Joseph Cheng, a political-science...
...Unrest in France...
...Inaction comes at a steep price. The environment is one of the leading causes of China's rising social unrest. Last year the government recorded 74,000 protests. This year, international and domestic media have kept busy reporting on numerous environmental protests, several of which have spiraled out of control, resulting in beatings, arrests, even deaths. In wealthy Zhejiang Province, for example, thousands of people mobilized throughout the spring and summer to protest chemical, pharmaceutical and battery factories that were polluting their land and water. In one case in April, up to 30,000 people living in and around...
...evidence of their newfound willingness to deal openly with challenges such as avian flu. Unfortunately, it is unlikely Beijing will recognize the Harbin disaster for what it really is: a wake-up call signaling that without real reform, they risk hundreds of millions of desperately ill citizens, greater social unrest and, perhaps, the end of the Chinese economic miracle...