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I hope this isn't what I think it is.

1 posted on 10/14/2004 4:17:07 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew

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66 posted on 10/14/2004 4:27:47 PM PDT by msp2004

To: ChicagoHebrew

I was in La Paz back in 1991 and witnessed the same thing, they were using firecrackers.

It turned out the local communist party was having a demonstration about something or other. Freaked me out as it was my first day in country. Just ask some of the locals what’s going on. If they are not concerned I would not worry about it.

68 posted on 10/14/2004 4:28:33 PM PDT by usurper

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71 posted on 10/14/2004 4:28:59 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender

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Good luck. Stay safe. And if you feel the urge, pick a side and join in.

77 posted on 10/14/2004 4:32:34 PM PDT by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")

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From Bolivia:"Who are those guys?"

80 posted on 10/14/2004 4:34:28 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)

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Good luck.........stay safe.......prayers have been sent.

Sorry, but I have to ask. Have you already sent in an absentee ballet? I know, bad joke....again, stay safe and good luck.

85 posted on 10/14/2004 4:36:13 PM PDT by Gator113

To: ChicagoHebrew

Do not tell the Bolivian Govt you are the great grandson of Butch Cassidy!

87 posted on 10/14/2004 4:38:13 PM PDT by LaGrone

To: ChicagoHebrew

Have they shut down the radio/telephone/tv networks? If so, you are probably experiencing a coup. If not it is probably a govt crackdown.

88 posted on 10/14/2004 4:38:52 PM PDT by max_rpf

To: ChicagoHebrew

There is a nationwide cocalero march on LaPaz to protest the government's announcement last month that they would forcibly eradicate coca farming by 2008. There's already been one death and scores of injuries. The march is scheduled to reach LaPaz on the 18th, the anniversary of the overthrow last year of Lozada's elected government.

While all eyes are on mecca South America is our fire next time.

90 posted on 10/14/2004 4:40:57 PM PDT by wtc911 (all zee children have mush!)

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Cool. Free Republic does Bolivia!

93 posted on 10/14/2004 4:43:50 PM PDT by BunnySlippers ("F" Stands for FLIP-FLOP ...)

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94 posted on 10/14/2004 4:44:18 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead

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Of all the gin joints in all the World...you HAD to pick that one!

Here's hoping the La Paz dispensers run out of ammo soon!

98 posted on 10/14/2004 4:48:07 PM PDT by O Neill (Swift Vote Republicans For Bush)

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103 posted on 10/14/2004 4:51:27 PM PDT by Mo1 (The President's job is not to pass a global test, but to protect the American people.)

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EX-BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT TO BE TRIEDLA PAZ (Bolivia) - The Bolivian Congress voted early yesterday to put former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and 15 other members of his ousted Cabinet on trial on charges of genocide and embezzlement of state funds.

Sanchez de Lozada was forced to step down on Oct 17 last year, amid massive unrest triggered by the government's plan to export natural gas through Chile, a traditional foe, and general dissatisfaction with the country's economic condition.

Sanchez de Lozada, 74, now lives in the United States. He was replaced by his vice-president, Mr Carlos Mesa. -- AFP

104 posted on 10/14/2004 4:52:02 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve to keep us free.)

To: ChicagoHebrew

How many revolutions have they had in Bolivia...200? They cannot be made free and prosperous because they do not have the culture of freedom and prosperity. This latest exercize in futility will end in yet another dismal, backward country... again!

107 posted on 10/14/2004 4:53:45 PM PDT by broadsword (Weren't there a couple of giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? What happened to them?)

To: ChicagoHebrew

PRayers are being said for you right now.

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110 posted on 10/14/2004 4:58:10 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature

To: ChicagoHebrew

This is the way it works. Bolivia for the first time in its history has a legal natural resource that can put it on the map.

A few years ago, they developed their gas deposits, and built a 2000 mile long pipeline to Brazil to sell it. The pipeline puts thousands of people to work building it, and the income gives a bankrupt government some legal income.

But Brazil went into a recession, and has begun to develope its own gas deposits, and has stopped taking all the gas it was contracted to take. Bad news for Bolivia.

They decided that, rather than be tied to Brazil's business cycle, they would punch another pipeline out to the Pacific, and sell to the world. Thats when the trouble started. The Tribes and the NGOs that work with them decided that selling gas on the world market would enslave them. Their leaders (advised by Euro NGOs mind you) told the people that gas was alien to their culture, unlike coca which was authenticly Bolivian.

So the tribes and the coca farmers (mostly one and the same) rose up and tried to overthrow the government. Some of them were killed in the rioting, but the President was eventually forced to resign to restore peace. He is in the US.

He will be charged with murder for the deaths caused when the cocaleros tried to overthrow him.

Meanwhile, Chavez of Venezuela met with the leader of the revolt to encourage him to stay firm, which gave us the rather grotesque picture of the richest oil producer in the hemisphere encouraging the poorest country in the world to stay out of the oil and gas business. I have come to the conclusion that the NGOs and environmental groups that work with the tribes are funded by OPEC.

113 posted on 10/14/2004 5:05:19 PM PDT by marron

To: ChicagoHebrew

Banana Republic coup...

118 posted on 10/14/2004 5:18:56 PM PDT by TommyDale

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Long way from Chicago. (Where such things only happen on election day.) Stay safe -- seriously.

120 posted on 10/14/2004 5:24:05 PM PDT by AmishDude (This space for rent.)

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Prayers and hugs sent. Please be careful.

122 posted on 10/14/2004 5:29:39 PM PDT by Sunshine55 (Why would you choose the donkey to be the symbol for your party? Was the sheep already taken?)

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