Congress Rejects Mesa’s Resignation: Agreement Alienates Protesting Sectors and Blockades Continue
On May 6, President Carlos Mesa caught Bolivia off-guard. He announced that as a result of continual protests and growing blockades, he was no longer willing to, "govern based on…
Mesa Throws in the Towel (Again) and Calls for Elections
Sustaining that Bolivia is on a course toward "collective suicide," as a result of continued road blockades and a lack of congressional support for the fuel law, Bolivian president Carlos…
Popular Protest Brings Down the Government
Click here to read the full text. http://ain-bolivia.org/2003popularprotest.pdf Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is the fourth elected president inLatin America to be forced from office as a result…
An Uncertain Peace in Bolivia
Bolivia's conflicts regarding the proposal to export the nation's gas to the US through a Chilean port proved to be the spark that fueled a much larger fire of national…