LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Bolivia: President Morales
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After a military rebellion forced out García Meza in 1981, three other military governments in fourteen months struggled with Bolivia's growing problems. Unrest forced the military to convoke the Congress elected in 1980 and allow it to choose a new chief executive. In October 1982, twenty-two years after the end of his first term of office (1956-60), Hernán Siles Zuazo again became President.
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Marbella 08.12.07 - A Venezuelan military plane, identified with registration no. 9508, was attacked by an angry group in the city of Riberalta, Bolivia 2 days ago. The group, presumably foes of Chavez´s puppet Evo Morales, waited until the plane landed and proceeded to throw stones at it which caused an earlier than planned departure. The impromptu escape left Luis Michel Klein Ferrer, allegedly former Venezuelan army officer, stranded at the airport from where he escaped only to be be captured, beaten and, after negotiations, released. Bolivian daily La Prensa reports that Klein Ferrer had a briefcase containing $872,000.
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Reaction is raising its ugly head in Bolivia. The strategy of the Morales government seems to be based on making more concessions. Taking advantage of the temporising and vacillation of the Morales government the oligarchy is gaining even more confidence. What is needed is a serious campaign among the masses to explain what is at stake and take firm revolutionary socialist measures.
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LA PAZ, BOLIVIA - JUNE 2: Police fire tear gas canisters towards protesters on June 2, 2005 in La Paz, Bolivia. Demonstrators from around the country have converged on La Paz to demand the resignation of President Carlos Mesa and to force the government to nationalize Bolivia's gas reserves.
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Such confrontations come regularly these days in Bolivia, where the second-year socialist president has made a practice of trying to discredit the media. The rifts could be written off as the usual tension between the press and politicians, but they come at a historic moment for Bolivia, which is drafting a new constitution that would give greater power to the country’s marginalized indigenous majority while addressing contentious issues such as land reform, regional autonomy, and fundamental human rights—including press freedom.
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At 10am, President Hugo Banzer places Bolivia under martial law. This drastic move concludes a week of protests, general strikes and transportation blockages that have jerked the country to a virtual standstill, and follows the surprise announcement of government concession to protesters' demands to break a $200 million contract selling Cochabamba's public water system to foreign investors.
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