Bolivian regions in autonomy push
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Bolivia's wealthiest region moves to declare autonomy from the centre in protest at a planned new constitution.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests in  Bolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authorities  to meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concession  run by a foreign company.
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Tensions were rising in Bolivia on Saturday as members of the country's four highest natural gas-producing regions declared autonomy from the central government.
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THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Dec. 18 (IPS) - Uruguay urged the International Court of Justice  Monday to force Argentina to take measures against environmental  activists who block three access roads to Uruguay, where a  controversial pulp mill is being constructed.
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of La Paz on Friday to protest efforts to relocate Bolivia's capital in one of the largest demonstrations in the history of the Andean country.
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The battle to rewrite Bolivia's constitution has come down to a math problem, a question that is anything but academic. What hangs in the balance is not only the direction the nation takes, but perhaps whether it remains a whole country at all.
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President Evo Morales handed out titles for farmland and tractors made in Venezuela and Iran to Bolivian peasants on Wednesday as he drummed up support for his ambitious agrarian reform.
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia  - Bolivian florist Marisol  Rioja went on strike, marched in rallies and saw her sales slip  during nearly three weeks of protests for more independence in  her native Santa Cruz province.
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An ethnic Madhesi group that organized bloody protests in Nepal's southern plains this year said on Monday it would launch a fresh campaign to press for regional autonomy.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's radical Indian leader  Evo Morales, who has infuriated Washington with calls to  legalize coca farming, has come first in municipal elections  that are seen as a springboard for a 2007 presidential vote.
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Bolivia&#039;s first Indian president, Evo Morales, is hoping for a big win by his socialist allies in elections Sunday to choose an assembly that will rewrite the constitution.
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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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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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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Andrea Mamani stood in front of her students the other day and started the afternoon lesson by pointing to her head.
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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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PRAGUE, Jan 26 (IPS) - The possibility of Kosovo gaining independence has  sparked a debate in minorities-ridden central-eastern Europe on  whether the Serbian region could set a precedent in prioritising  the right to self-determination over state sovereignty.
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ABECHE, Chad -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a solution the government has resisted but said yesterday it would be willing to discuss anew in an effort to end the violence that has killed 50,000 people.