From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Tue Jun 07 2005 - 08:50:47 EDT
An update to the following story: President Mesa _has_ resigned. A question for John H: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Luis Gomez, "Bolivia's Mesa Appears Close to Resigning" | http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/06/07/0140242 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Bolivia's Mesa Appears Close to Resigning" Luis Gomez, NarcoNews I write to you a few blocks from the Palace of Government. While around half a million people have mobilized in the streets of La Paz today, the rumors in the streets and information coming to us from government sources agree: President Mesa could resign at any time. If this happens, the President of the National Congress, Senator Hormando Vaca Diez, would have to assume the presidency, and will have already reached an agreement with the Armed Forces to immediately decree a state of siege. A little more history was written today, Monday, June 6, in the streets of the seat of government, the city of La Paz: The most combative sectors of the social movements (the urban and rural Aymara, the miners and El Alto university students, among others) have expanded their siege of the center of State power: there have been clashes with the police for ours in attempts to take the Plaza Murillo. This story continues at: http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/06/07/0140242
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