U.S. Orders Non-Essential Embassy Staff to Leave Bolivia

[Robbien]

June 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government ordered non- essential embassy employees in Bolivia and their families to leave the country after street protests led President Carlos Mesa to resign.

U.S. citizens should cancel non-essential travel to Bolivia, and those inside the country should ``remain vigilant'' for danger and consider leaving, the State Department said in an e-mailed statement. Travelers shouldn't try to run roadblocks, even if unmanned, and avoid street protests, the statement said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=a1XUPqbNKMns&refer=latin_america

[Supersedeas]

1. evacuate all witnesses to imminent war crimes...monkey no see, no hear

no do anything about it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Nah far more significant than that

see while we try to impose empire over there, our little back yard we are loosing control... now imagine this, little freeper heads exploding when they finally realize this.

[struggle4progress]

3. Bolivian protests swell after Mesa offer to quit

08 June 2005

LA PAZ: Tens of thousands of Bolivian peasants and miners marched through La Paz today as some opposition leaders urged early elections to end the country's political crisis after President Carlos Mesa's offer to resign. <snip>

Mesa volunteered yesterday to quit – his second such offer this year – after three weeks of indigenous protests blockaded La Paz and triggered the worst turmoil in his 19-month presidency of South America's poorest nation.

Congress, which in March rejected an earlier resignation by Mesa, could vote on Wednesday whether to accept Mesa's latest offer to quit. <snip>

The president appeared briefly on the balcony of his office on Tuesday to wave to reporters as thunderous blasts from dynamite echoed through the capital. <snip>

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3307024a12,00.html