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  1. Candidate Rene Joaquino referred to the group of opposition candidates as "a bag of cats" lacking a common ideological foundation.
  2. Candidate Alejo Veliz slammed competitor: "I pity Costa, it saddens me that she is fresh meat for Bolivian politics’ hawks and buzzards."
  3. Bolivian presidential elections scheduled for December 6; campaign rhetoric heats up
  4. Picachuri blew himself up with dynamite on 3/3/04 following a protest in front of Congress to demand fair payment of his retirement pension
  5. Many representatives in the House and Senate report that at night they feel the presence of deceased miner Eustaquio Picachuri Collaca
  6. An alternative reason for Bolivian legislative gridlock: a ghost in the central congressional building?
  7. "If it turns out this is not happening, that's good news," said US DOS Spokesman Crowley on the alleged Iranian "mega-embassy" in Nicaragua
  8. "They haven't invested anything. They haven't built anything," Arce said. "We haven't even been able to renegotiate the $160 million debt."
  9. "We don't have an Iranian mega-embassy. We have an ambassador in a rented house with his wife" clarifies Nicaragua Presidential Adviser Arce
  10. Arce faces 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia for human rights crimes committed under the Garcia Meza dictatorship (1980-1981).
  11. US Immigration and Customs officers deported Bolivian ex colonel Luis Arce Gomez on July 9.
  12. "Obama has a great opportunity... to make a historic decision over the next several days." Minister of the Exterior Choquehuanca on ATPDEA
  13. "The longer both nations wait, the more difficult it will be to reconstruct a relationship based on trust and communication," Ledebur stated
  14. AIN Director Kathryn Ledebur's Testimony to House Committee on Foreign Affairs now available online at www.ain-bolivia.org.
  15. On May 12, the White House appointed Arturo Valenzuela to succeed Shannon as the new official responsible for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
  16. "We must ensure that our [US] dialogue will respect internal changes," Shannon added.
  17. The US government should respect changes in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, said Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon.
  18. Beckett continued, "and the opposition are obliging by throwing themselves into the mud whilst claiming its really a swimming pool."
  19. "Given we have elections this year the [Bolivian] government is very keen to smear the opposition," commented Richard Beckett of Khana Wayra
  20. Evo emphasized that Bolivia never expelled the Peace Corps and stated that any international program without hidden interests is welcome.