By Prensa Latina,
La Paz : Overwhelming accusations of the US government for interfering in internal affairs and boosting plans to boycott the revocation referendum focus the news week in Bolivia.
President Evo Morales used the brief visit Wednesday of US Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Thomas Shannon to present evidence of the plot against his government sponsored by Washington.
It includes subversive plans and finances of opposition groups by the US Agency for International Development.
La Paz also demanded clear legal steps to extradite former statesman Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, exiled in the United States, but accused here of genocide.
It also warned about Bolivians’ discomfort with the decision by the US justice to grant political asylum to former Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez, involved in a police repression that killed 68 people and severely injured 400 in 2003.
Shannon avoided media questions on accusations in which his representative in La Paz, Philip Goldberg, has been involved.
The revocation referendum process to vote for the president, vice president and eight departmental prefects has been torpedoed by new maneuvers of the opposition.