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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Tiny Bolivia Expelled US ambassador What are the Arabs Waiting for?

Bolivia's president says all Latin American nations should expel U.S. ambassadors until the Cuban embargo is ended.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday that the September expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg was "a success and not a mistake because it "thwarted " an opposition coup plot.

At an evaluation meeting of his third year as president, Morales said that he did not make a mistake in deciding the "ambassador had to go," after his party "had endured the assault of the (Bolivian) right-wing."

Five of Bolivia's nine provinces are controlled by the opposition, whose objections to Morales' new constitution, the centerpiece of his program to distribute more of the nation's wealth to the impoverished majority, created political unrest in September. More