Bolivian Province Wants Independence
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Protesters in Bolivia's wealthy  Santa Cruz province stepped up their pressure on President  Carlos Mesa on Friday by announcing plans to set up their own  separatist government and break ties with the capital, La Paz.
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Opposition leader in Bolivia's wealthier lowlands claim success in a protest against changes to the constitution.
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President Evo Morales' drive to reinvent Bolivia takes a big step Sunday with the opening of a convention to write a new constitution aimed at ending the centuries-old supremacy of the European-descended minority.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales and opposition governors agree to draw up a pact of national unity in crisis talks.
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President Evo Morales says he is lifting the military guard deployed at energy installations around the country when Morales nationalized Bolivia&#039;s natural gas industry.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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LA HIGUERA, Bolivia -- The people here pray to a man who once limped through their village in tattered clothes, a legendary guerrilla who fought his last battle on their dusty, unpaved streets, and who was executed in their schoolhouse.
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BELGRADE, Feb 14 (IPS) - The southern Serbian province of Kosovo is  preparing to proclaim independence this Sunday or Monday to  become the newest state to emerge from former Yugoslavia.
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Spain's Congress will review the region's bid for independence Feb. 1.
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Bolivians voted Sunday in municipal elections that polls predicted would see indigenous and peasant organizations gaining ground on the traditional political parties that have long dominated the nation.
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The breakaway province is expected to declare independence from Serbia imminently.
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The banned Basque separatist party, Batasuna, is expected to appeal for an end to decades of armed conflict in its campaign for Basque independence.
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President Evo Morales has backed off a proposal to remove Roman Catholic instruction from Bolivia's schools, easing a dispute with church officials over his plan to place greater emphasis on Indian faiths.
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Travel: Local governor urges residents to demonstrate against a military takeover.
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SUCRE, Bolivia  - Bolivians sat down a month ago   to rewrite their constitution, but disputes and infighting   threaten to bog down President Evo Morales' plan to rebuild the   country on indigenous principles.
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Leaders of an autonomy drive in Bolivia's largest province got a boost Friday, winning concessions from President Carlos Mesa that clear the way for them to eventually choose their own provincial leaders.
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's energy-richregions came to a standstill on Thursday in a 24-hour strike todemand autonomy from capital city La Paz, where a poorindigenous majority has restricted development of the area'svast oil and gas reserves.