Notoriety of President Morales Roils Area's Bolivian Community
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On weekend nights, the dance floor at Cecilia's Club in Arlington County pulsates with strobe lights and salsa dancers. But one recent Saturday afternoon, this social hub of the region's large Bolivian population became a sober forum for debate on the political storm that has convulsed the...
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Members of President Hugo ChÃ¡vezâs family have repeatedly won strong victories in elections, but critics accuse them of abuses of power and corruption.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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President Morales dons his cleats to challenge an international soccer ruling that would bar Bolivia's national team from playing home games
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Combining nostalgia and nationalism, BoliviaÂs leader is lobbying to regain the Pacific coastline the country lost during its 1879 conflict with Chile.
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Guatemalan President Oscar Berger is struggling to contain fallout from the murders of politicians and policemen in an election-year scandal that has revealed drug gang links to high-level security forces.
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In a sign of Venezuelaâs growing influence, on many days its ambassador can be found at Boliviaâs presidential palace huddled in meetings with President Evo Morales or top aides.
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Bolivian farmers march on La Paz, calling for ex-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada to be put on trial.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - The Bolivian Defense Ministrywas damaged on Wednesday by small explosives thrown at thebuilding in what officials said was a terrorist attack bypeople seeking to destabilize the government.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's president on Thursday  proposed a referendum on regional autonomy and to allow  provinces to elect their own leaders in a bid to quell protests  in Santa Cruz, the nation's wealthiest department.
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Across the low-lying plains in this eastern Bolivia city, green and white flags hang from storefronts and drape from cars &#151; symbols of a growing push for greater political autonomy in the country's most prosperous region.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 30 -- Intensifying labor strife, political infighting and budgetary pressures are threatening to chip away at the domestic support of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who took office in January promising to nationalize the natural gas industry and to achieve social equality for the...
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The people of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have begun talking about autonomy and, in isolated cases, outright secession.
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Hundreds of thousands of Bolivians in this eastern lowland city protested Friday to demand more autonomy from the government of President Evo Morales and reject his control over an assembly rewriting the constitution.
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BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 20 -- Six of Bolivia's nine regional governors have severed communications with President Evo Morales's government in recent days, intensifying protests against the ruling party's efforts to rewrite the constitution, implement a controversial land reform policy and limit the...
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Police killed two coca farmers and injured a third Friday in Bolivia's first violent confrontation over coca eradication since President Evo Morales, himself a former coca grower, was elected last year.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.