Far from Over: Bolivia on the Brink of Civil War--or Revolution?

(Copy of a story I just published on the Web site of the Resource Center of the Americas thanks to, and based on, the valiant reporting of my compañer@s: Luis Gómez, Jean Friedsky and Alex Contreras. It's a rundown of what's happened so far... the swarm continues.)

Bolivia’s Senate president Hormando Vaca Díez sealed an uncertain, perhaps violent fate for the country by promulgating a widely unpopular hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) law on May 18. In passing the measure, with the support of Bolivia’s discredited traditional political parties, he pleaded, “Now, all I ask is for unity in the country.”

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