President Mesa Resigns: Bolivia’s Future Uncertain, Chaos Continues
President Mesa Resigns: Bolivia’s Future Uncertain, Chaos Continues Prepared by the Andean Information NetworkJune 6, 2005 Over three weeks of grueling social conflict in La Paz, the extension of road blockades…
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…
The Beat Goes On: The U.S. War on Coca
NACLA Report on the Americas (www.nacla.org) Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 38, Issue 3 In unguarded moments during the month-long road blockade of September and October 2000, coca growers and Bolivian security forces…