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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Army troops arrested Leopoldo Fernandez, governor of the restive state of Pando, and charged him in the deaths of several pro-government demonstrators who last week clashed with anti-government factions
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
The political unrest — and the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador — prompted the United States to suspend the Peace Corps program in Bolivia, evacuating its estimated 130 volunteers to neighboring Peru
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
The leftist government accuses Fernandez of ordering a massacre of pro-Morales peasants last Thursday, in which officials say 15 people died
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
The Peace Corps, a US government program that sends Americans to volunteer in developing countries, has temporarily halted its work in Bolivia on security concerns
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Here's a quick review of the events over the past couple of days surrounding Bolivia's political crisis
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
President Bush has determined that Bolivia is no longer cooperating in the war on drugs, placing it on a counter-narcotics blacklist along with Venezuela
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Bush for the first time said Bolivia had "failed demonstrably" to meet its obligations to battle narcotics under international accords and US laws governing overseas aid
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
The report, which lists Bolivia, South America's poorest country, in the most severe category for the first time, comes amid rising tension between the U.S. and Bolivian President Evo Morales
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Bolivia has failed to do enough to fight the drug trade, the United States said on Tuesday, but it did not cut off aid to the Andean nation despite tit-for-tat expulsions of their ambassadors
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Explosions apparently caused by lobbed grenades tore through a crowded Independence Day celebration in the Mexican state of Michoacan late Monday night, killing at least seven people, injuring more than 100 others and casting a pall