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United Nations sends envoy to crisis-racked Bolivia, June 14, 2005

Bolivia is to receive José Antonio Ocampo, to meet with the recently installed President, Eduardo Rodriguez, and ascertain how the United Nations can be helpful to Bolivia’s unrest, reporting directly to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Recent popular uprisings of mostly poor, rural Aymara and Quechua Indians have removed from power Bolivia’s president, Carlos Mesa by causing cutoffs of food and gasoline to the capital of La Paz. Bolivia’s unrest is caused by economic difficulties, the direct result of open, free market policies. Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, a leftist antiglobalization leader, has blamed this as a result of U.S. and other developed nation’s corporate interests creating exclusion, iniquity, and unrest.


LA News

"UN envoy to begin assessment mission in Bolivia today "
United Nations News Centre June 14, 2005
"Bolivian city learns price of protest "
Globe and Mail June 14, 2005
"El Presidente forma su gabinete con sectores, regiones y partidos "
La Razón (Bolivia) June 14, 2005
"UN warns of Bolivian coca danger "
BBC News (UK) June 14, 2005
"Bolivia's movements face a choice "
The Socialist Worker (UK) June 14, 2005
"Chavez blames US capitalism for Bolivia's crisis "
Pravda (Russia) June 14, 2005

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