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Bacchus39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 07:55 AM
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Top Bolivian official quits in march backlash
this is the second cabinet official to resign over Evo's handling of the protest and the highway project.

http://news.yahoo.com/top-bolivian-official-quits-march-backlash-003232373.html

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's interior minister and his deputy resigned Tuesday after mounting recriminations over a violent police crackdown on marchers opposed to a jungle highway that they say would despoil an indigenous preserve.

Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti became the second Cabinet member to step down over the weekend action, which backfired as angry crowds pressured police into releasing the hundreds of protesters they had detained.

Defense Minister Cecilia Chacon resigned in protest immediately after Sunday's crackdown by about 500 police officers who fired tear gas and wielded clubs in the eastern lowlands.

The backlash is a major setback for President Evo Morales, who by stubbornly insisting on the 190-mile (300-kilometer) jungle highway had alienated many of his indigenous core supporters in this poor, landlocked nation where more than two in three people are members of indigenous groups.

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