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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Confetti, Teargas and Stalemate in Bolivia</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2008/09/04/stalemate-and-teargas-in-bolivia.aspx</link><description>Barely a month ago, some 4 million Bolivians went to the polls to cast ballots in an historic recall vote to see who was boss and who would be shown the door in South America's poorest and easily its most conflagrated nation. Now we know the outcome:</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)</generator><item><title>re: Confetti, Teargas and Stalemate in Bolivia</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2008/09/04/stalemate-and-teargas-in-bolivia.aspx#610585</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:54:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:610585</guid><dc:creator>jonesb39</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Mr. Margoiis: who are your phony, and obviously biased, &amp;quot;independent sources&amp;quot;? &lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: Why It Matters</category></item><item><title>re: Confetti, Teargas and Stalemate in Bolivia</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2008/09/04/stalemate-and-teargas-in-bolivia.aspx#610624</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:06:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:610624</guid><dc:creator>jonesb39</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;And wealthy lowlands? Wealthy for whom? That is the essence of the problem. The gas belongs to all Bolivians, not a few racist white folk who don't like Evo and any other Indian getting too uppity for their elitist tastes. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And the opposition &amp;quot;locked out of the assembly hall&amp;quot;? Back that up with evidence, please. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moreover, calling a national referendum on the constitution, which was sabotaged by opposition for their own racist interests, is hardly akin to your charaterization of &amp;quot;muscling&amp;quot; through... &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And land reform, that is a Bolivian law already, nada to do with the &amp;nbsp;proposed constitution.&lt;/p&gt;
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